Starachowice

Coordinates: 51°3′N 21°4′E / 51.050°N 21.067°E / 51.050; 21.067
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Starachowice
County administration building
County administration building
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
27-200
Area code+48 41
Vehicle registrationTST
Websitewww.um.starachowice.pl

Starachowice [staraxɔˈvʲit͡sɛ] ⓘ is a city in southeastern Poland (historic Lesser Poland), with 49,513 inhabitants (31.12.2017). It is the capital of Starachowice County in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. It is situated upon the River Kamienna, a tributary of the Vistula River, among hills and forests.

History

Holy Trinity church which dates back to the 17th century

In the location of present-day Starachowice, a

Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown
.

In the Third Partition of Poland, in 1795, the area was annexed by Austria, in 1809 it passed to the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw, and in 1815 it passed to so-called Congress Poland in the Russian Partition of Poland. In 1815, the furnace was taken over by the government of Congress Poland, and in the following years, the industrial settlement of Starachowice emerged as main center of metallurgy. According to a plan devised by Stanisław Staszic, metal industry was developed along the Kamienna river, and the settlement of Starachowice was its center. As part of anti-Polish repressions following the unsuccessful Polish January Uprising, the Russian administration stripped Wierzbnik of its town rights in 1870, which were restored in 1916.[1]

After Poland regained independence in 1918, the government in

Polish Army
in 1939. The very town of Starachowice was not created until April 1, 1939, when the ancient town of Wierzbnik was merged with the settlement of Starachowice Fabryczne and the village of Starachowice Górne. At first, the new town was named Starachowice-Wierzbnik, and in 1952 the name was changed into Starachowice.

During the German

Auschwitz where many were murdered by the Schutzstaffel. There was a munition plant there where Jewish slave labor was used. In 1944, during and following the Warsaw Uprising, the Germans deported thousands of Varsovians from the Dulag 121 camp in Pruszków, where they were initially imprisoned, to Starachowice.[5] Those Poles were mainly old people, ill people and women with children.[5] 10,000 Poles expelled from Warsaw stayed in the town, as of 1 November 1944.[5]

During World War II, Starachowice was an important center of the Home Army, where units of Jan Piwnik and Antoni Heda operated. At least three local Polish boy scouts were killed by the Germans during the war.[6]

After the war, the town prospered as an important industrial center. Besides Starachowice Works, truck producer

Roman Catholic Church
(1979). When capitalist system was reintroduced in 1989, the situation in Starachowice worsened, and unemployment grew drastically. The town currently has a special economy zone with lower tax rates to help the settlement of new industry.

Sport

There is the Municipal Stadium in the city. Local football teams are:

Unique geological denudation - monument to geological features (length- of 400 m, height- 5-8 m)
Starachowice Culture Centre
Historic blast-furnace plant, now a museum

Notable people

International relations

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

Twin towns — Sister cities

Starachowice is

twinned
with:

External links

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Historia". Starachowice.eu (in Polish). Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-83-8098-799-9
    .
  3. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 58.
  4. ^ Wardzyńska, p. 251
  5. ^ a b c "Transporty z obozu Dulag 121". Muzeum Dulag 121 (in Polish). Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  6. Biblioteka Jagiellońska
    . p. 246.
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