Tarczyn

Coordinates: 51°58′43″N 20°50′1″E / 51.97861°N 20.83361°E / 51.97861; 20.83361
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Tarczyn
Saint Nicholas church in Tarczyn
Saint Nicholas church in Tarczyn
Car plates
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Primary airportWarsaw Chopin Airport
Highways
Voivodeship roads
Websitehttp://tarczyn.pl

Tarczyn [ˈtart͡ʂɨn] is a town in central Poland, seat of Gmina Tarczyn, in the Piaseczno County, in Masovian Voivodeship, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of Warsaw. There were 3,919 inhabitants living there in 2010.[1] This town became famous for the eponymous juices that were made there.

History

Memorial to local Polish resistance members murdered by the Germans in 1944

Tarczyn’s history reaches back to the 13th century, when a local trading–post and market was established close to the banks of a small river, known today as Tarczynka, thereby deriving its name from this river. Early documented references to the locality include: “Tarczin” (1284), Tarczyno (1303), Tarczyn (1353,1580), Tharczino (1355, 1241), Tarcynum (1634). Tarczyn was first mentioned in 1259. In 1353 the Mazovian Duke Casimir I gave the locality its Magdeburgian Town Charter and financed the founding of Gothic St. Nicolas’s church. Tarczyn was administratively located in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province until the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, when it was annexed by Prussia. In 1807 it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw, and after its dissolution, in 1815, it passed to newly formed Congress Poland within the Russian Partition of Poland. It was deprived of its town rights by the Tsarist administration following the unsuccessful Polish January Uprising of 1863–1864. Poland eventually regained independence after World War I in 1918, and Tarczyn was restored to Poland.

Historical population
YearPop.±%
18902,212—    
18972,117−4.3%
19103,078+45.4%
19212,526−17.9%
19601,810−28.3%
20103,919+116.5%
Source: [2][3][1]

During the joint German-Soviet

Fall of Communism in the 1980s. Ewa Jeżewska, who survived the war, was harassed by the communists and deprived of her pharmacy.[5]

Attractions

Tarczyn and its district have a few characteristic places like the forests and brushwoods, the picturesque tracts of woodlands, through which the river Jeziorka wends. Many tourist attractions: Tarczyn’s 16th-century church; the wooden church in Rembertów; the rustic, little chapels in Leśna Polana, in Przypki and in Werdun; studs of horses; Organic Farm in Kawęczyn; tourist farm in Przypki; past verdant, thick forests to the western part of the district; the Manor House at Many, where Złotopolscy daytime soap opera was filmed (with English subtitles, viewable on satellite TV).

Transport

Tarczyn is located west of the S7 highway, part of the international European route E77, connecting Kraków, Kielce and Radom in the south with Warsaw and Gdańsk in the north. The nearest major airport is the Warsaw Chopin Airport.

Notable people

References

  1. ^ a b c Stan i struktura ludności oraz ruch naturalny w przekroju terytorialnym w 2010 r. (PDF) (in Polish). Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 2011. p. 75. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011.
  2. ^ Dokumentacja Geograficzna (in Polish). Vol. 3/4. Warszawa: Instytut Geografii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1967. p. 52.
  3. ^ Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom I (in Polish). Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1925. p. 43.
  4. ^ a b "Czesław Oszkiel" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d "Ciekawi ludzie". Tarczyn.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  6. ^ Jan Kozłowski. "Adam Franciszek Ksawery Rostkowski h. Dąbrowa". Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny (in Polish). Retrieved 3 January 2021.

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