Stalowa Wola

Coordinates: 50°34′N 22°03′E / 50.567°N 22.050°E / 50.567; 22.050
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Stalowa Wola
House of Culture [pl]
Headquarters of Huta Stalowa Wola
The Church of Our Lady of the Scapular [pl]
Subcarpathian Football Center
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal Code
37-450 to 37-464
Area code(+48) 15
Car platesRST
Websitehttp://www.stalowawola.pl

Stalowa Wola ([staˈlɔva ˈvɔla]) is the largest city and capital of Stalowa Wola County with a population of 58,545 inhabitants, as at 31 December 2021.[1] It is located in southeastern Poland in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. The city lies in historic Lesser Poland near the confluence of the Vistula and the San rivers, and covers an area of 82.5 km2 (31.9 sq mi).[2]

Stalowa Wola is one of the youngest cities of Poland. It was built from scratch in the late 1930s in the forests surrounding village of Pławo. The city was designed to be a settlement for workers of Huta Stalowa Wola (known in 1938 to 1939 as Zakłady Poludniowe or Southern Works), a plant built as part of the Central Industrial Region. The name "Stalowa Wola" translates to "Steel Will" in English, reflecting its origins and purpose as a city established to support the steel industry. Stalowa Wola is home to the sports club Stal Stalowa Wola.

Old Church of Saint Florian, patron saint of Poland, in Stalowa Wola
New Catholic church in Stalowa Wola

Location and name

Stalowa Wola is located in the lowlands of the

Central Industrial Area
symbolizes the steel will of the Polish nation to modernize itself.

History

The area of today's Stalowa Wola belongs to historic Polish province of

Charles Gustav were surrounded by Stefan Czarniecki (see Swedish invasion of Poland
).

Until the

Central Industrial Area, which included the construction of a brand new steel mill, together with a settlement for the workers. Before the outbreak of World War II
, some departments of the mill were operational and several blocks of flats were built. Construction of the Southern Works, as the mill was then called, was started in dense pine forests around Pławo in March 1937. Among other things, the plant manufactured artillery cannons.

During World War II, Stalowa Wola was one of the centres of the Home Army. The settlement was captured by the Red Army in August 1944, and on April 1, 1945, Stalowa Wola received its town charter. In 1948, the mill was renamed as Huta Stalowa Wola and in 1953, a separate urban county of Stalowa Wola was created. In 1973, the town of Rozwadów was annexed, followed in 1977 by the village of Charzewice. At its peak in the 1970s, the mill employed 35,000 people, with branches scattered across southern Poland, from Radomsko to Strzyżów. Apart from the mill, Stalowa Wola has a large power plant, opened Spring 1939. In 1988, the city was one of the centres of workers' protests (see 1988 Polish strikes). Currently, Stalowa Wola is the third-largest city of the voivodeship, with a population of 60,000.

Jews in Rozwadów (a district of Stalowa Wola)

The

Jews in Rozwadów were a religiously observant community, i.e. traditional or Orthodox in practice. The leading rabbi of Rozwadów, similar to other rabbis of the region, followed Hasidism practice and was of the Horowitz family. In New York, a Rozwadower Rebbe established a small synagogue on the upper West Side, which continued for many decades after the war. There is a link to a yizkor book about Rozwadów which gives further notes on the Jewish life there. The Rozwadów synagogue was, until World War II, located on Attorney Street in the lower east side of NYC
.

During

infectious disease, Epidemic Typhus in the town of Rozwadów (now a district of Stalowa Wola) and the surrounding villages and towns. He saved an estimated 8,000 Polish Jews from certain death in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust, performing his services in utmost secrecy under the threat of capital punishment.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

See also: Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust

Following

Berihah's efforts. A community of former Rozwadów citizens had been established in New York City and continued its affinity long after World War II. Many former Rozwadów citizens of Jewish backgrounds moved to the fledgeling State of Israel
.

Economy

Stalowa Wola is one of the leading highly developed industrial centers in the Subcarpathian province. More than 6,000 enterprises operate here - nationally and internationally recognized companies. The dominant industries are concentrated around machinery, armaments, aluminum, metal, foundry, steel, wood, construction. Investors from all over the world, including Korea, China, USA, Scandinavia, Germany, have located their capital here. The largest of them are: SK Nexilis Poland Sp. z o.o., COGNOR S.A., Thoni Alutec Sp. z o.o., Uniwheels Production Poland Sp. z o.o., ATI ZKM Forging Sp.z o.o., Cellfast Sp. z o.o., Eurometal S.A., Tasta Armatura Sp. z o.o., Wobi - Stal Sp. z o.o., Rakoczy Stal Sp. j., Swedwood Poland Sp. z o.o. (IKEA Industry), BAGPAK POLSKA Sp. z o.o. HSW headquarters at 8 Kasprzyckiego St.

Stalowa Wola is a nationally important armament center for the Polish army. Based on the military profile of design, production and sales, Huta Stalowa Wola S.A. offers top-class armament equipment. The Stalowa Wola Power Plant, part of the Tauron Group, also plays a leading role in the city's economic life.

On 09.09.1997 the Tarnobrzeg Special Economic Zone "Euro-Park Wisłosan" was inaugurated. The land, which includes the area of the Stalowa Wola Subzone, belonged to Huta Stalowa Wola S.A., which, as a result of restructuring, had unused assets in the form of production buildings, not fully completed halls, storage rooms and developed plots for industrial development. The Stalowa Wola subzone is an active area of the Tarnobrzeg Special Economic Zone EURO-PARK WISŁOSAN, covering an area of 280 hectares. Entrepreneurs operating on the basis of permits issued by the Industrial Development Agency S.A. have incurred investment outlays here in the amount of PLN 1.71 billion, with total employment reaching almost 6,000 employees.

On 31.07.2021 an agreement was signed on the establishment of the company "Euro-Park Stalowa Wola" to manage the newly created investment zone. The zone was given the name "Strategic Investment Park - Euro-Park Stalowa Wola". It is an area of just under 1,000 hectares, located to the south of the existing plants, intended for industrial investments related to supporting the development and implementation of modern technologies in the fields of energy, electro mobility, transportation, hydrogen technology, aviation or automotive. The first major investment is a plant for the production of copper foil for the automotive industry, the investor is Korean technology giant SK Nexilis.

Stalowa Wola is an important point on the commercial map of the northern part of the Subcarpathian province. The city is home to shopping malls and centers, food, construction and furniture supermarkets. The most important of these are:

  • Galeria Vivo! - Chopina 42 St.
  • Galeria City Park - 9A Generała Leopolda Okulickiego St.
  • Galeria Prima - Generała Leopolda Okulickiego 16C St.
  • Park Handlowy KEN - Komisji Edukacji Narodowej 47 St.
  • Retail Park - Przemyslowa 8 St.
  • Castorama - Przemyslowa 2B St.
  • PSB Mrówka - Przemyslowa 11 St.
  • Kaufland - Komisji Edukacji Narodowej 47 St.
  • Agata Meble - Chopina Street 40 St.


Education

Transport

Polish State Railways (PKP) provides scheduled connections to Lublin, Warsaw, Kraków, Katowice, Wrocław, Rzeszów, Przemyśl and Odesa (in Ukraine). Summer connections are available to the TriCity (Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot) and Hel. The city has several railway stations that include: Stalowa Wola, Stalowa Wola South, Stalowa Wola Centre and Stalowa Wola Rozwadów,[2] and is a main rail junction. All four stations are located on the main Przeworsk – Skarżysko-Kamienna line. Additionally, Stalowa Wola Rozwadów provides a northern connection with Lublin and, from Stalowa Wola South, a line runs east to Zamość, via Zwierzyniec. The ZMKS is the city's main public transit agency, operating a fleet of buses in Stalowa Wola and the surrounding districts.[2]

Sports

The city is a home for the professional football club Stal Stalowa Wola. They play their home matches at the Podkarpackie Centrum Piłki Nożnej, opened in 2020.[10] Moreover, the city is known from the amateur football club Parafialny Klub Sportowy San Rozwadów, that compete in Klasa A.[11]

Notable people

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland

Twin towns — Sister cities

Stalowa Wola is

twinned
with:

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stalowa Wola.

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Local Data Bank". Statistics Poland. Retrieved 18 August 2022. Data for territorial unit 1818011.
  2. ^ a b c "Stalowa Wola City Portal". iNetServis. Archived from the original on 2006-11-30. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
  3. ^ (in Polish) Andrzej Pityñski, Museum of Stalowa Wola, Short biography of Eugeniusz Łazowski Archived 2007-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ He duped Nazis, saved thousands
  5. ^ Fake Epidemic Saves a Village from Nazis
  6. ^ 2 doctors used typhus to save thousands in wartime
  7. ^ Paula Davenport, Media & Communication Resources, Southern Illinois University, Life Preserver Archived 2007-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, Righteous Among the Nations – per Country & Ethnic Origin January 1, 2009. Statistics
  9. ^ Richard C. Lukas, Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust, University Press of Kentucky 1989 – 201 pages. Page 13; also in Richard C. Lukas, The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939–1944, University Press of Kentucky, 1986, Google Print, p.13.
  10. ^ "Stadion" (in Polish). Stal1938.pl. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  11. ^ "Skarb - San Rozwadów (Stalowa Wola)". www.90minut.pl. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  12. ^ ToutenBD (in French)
  13. ^ "Krzysztof Soszynski". SPIKE.com. 2008-11-22. Archived from the original on 2008-11-10. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
  14. ^ Błażejowski, Tomasz (4 June 2010). "Stalowa Wola podpisała porozumienie z Belgami" (in Polish). Stalowka.NET. Retrieved 2013-07-21.

External links

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