Raszyn

Raszyn
Village
An old inn from the 18th century
County		Pruszków
Gmina	Raszyn
Population	6,700
Postal code	05-090
Website	http://www.raszyn.pl

Raszyn [ˈraʂɨn] is a village in Pruszków County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of an administrative district called Gmina Raszyn.^[1] It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) east of Pruszków and 9 km (6 mi) south-west of Warsaw.

History

Raszyn has been the site of two battles. On April 19, 1809, the inconclusive

.

In 1931 a

. Until 1978 it served as spare transmitter for Konstantynów. Since 1978 the facility in Raszyn is used at daytime for transmissions of the second programme of the Polish Radio in the longwave range.

Battle of Raszyn by Wojciech Kossak

After the collapse of the Konstantynów radio mast in 1991, the transmitter in Raszyn yet again became the main broadcasting transmitter in Poland. After completion of the new longwave transmitter in Solec Kujawski in 1999, it was finally switched off in 2009.

Raszyn itself currently functions as a suburb of Warsaw, with many villas and shops located there. The gmina has roughly 20,000 inhabitants and is one of the fastest-developing suburbs of the Polish capital.

Among the notable tourist attractions of the area is a

. The protected area covers 1.1 km².

Notable residents

• Iga Świątek (born 2001), tennis player, multiple Grand Slam champion

See also

• List of cities and towns in Poland
• Battle of Raszyn

References

External links

• Jewish Community in Raszyn on Virtual Shtetl