Rejowiec, Lublin Voivodeship

Rejowiec
Town
Ossoliński Palace (now location of town hall and town council)
UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	LCH
Voivodeship roads

Rejowiec (Polish:

The village was established in the 16th century by a family of noblemen named Rej, who were active in spreading the

In 1547, Rejowiec received acknowledgement (and privileges) as a town, from King Sigismund I the Old, including the right to hold two annual fairs, and an exemption from taxes for 10 years. In the 17th century the owners of Rejowiec changed a number of times, and the Calvinist College was closed. In the 18th century, when the number Catholics started to grow, the remaining Calvinist population dwindled and by the end of this century there were no more Calvinists in the town.

It was annexed by Austria in the late-18th-century Partitions of Poland. It was regained by Poles in the Austro-Polish War of 1809 and included within the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw. After its dissolution in 1815, it fell to the Russian Partition of Poland. In the second half of the 19th century, a copper casting factory and two tanneries were established in Rejowiec. Rejowiec was one of many towns deprived of its town rights around 1870 as punishment for the Polish January Uprising. The biggest industrial factory in Rejowiec (until 1939) was the glass factory that employed 180 workers.

After World War I, in 1918, Poland regained independence and control of Rejowiec. On 1 January 2017, Rejowiec was granted again its town status.

During the joint German-Soviet

The local football club is Unia Rejowiec.^[4] It competes in the lower leagues.