Wieruszów

Coordinates: 51°18′N 18°9′E / 51.300°N 18.150°E / 51.300; 18.150
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Wieruszów
Pauline
Monastery and Church of the Holy Spirit
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
98-400
Area code+48 62
Vehicle registrationEWE
ClimateCfb
Highways
Voivodeship roads
Websitehttp://www.wieruszow.pl

Wieruszów ([vjɛˈruʂuf]) is a town in south-central Poland with 8,446 inhabitants (2020).[1] Situated in the southwestern part of Łódź Voivodeship, it is the seat of the Gmina Wieruszów and Wieruszów County. Wieruszów is located in the historical Wieluń Land. The town is situated along the Prosna river.

History

Preserved old wooden St. Roch church in the Podzamcze district

Wieruszów was granted

town rights, when it was part of Piast-ruled Poland. The town developed in the Late Middle Ages under the patronage of the Polish noble Wierusz family. It was a private town, administratively located in the Wieluń County in the Sieradz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2] The local Catholic parish was erected in 1386 by Przecław of Pogorzela, Bishop of Wrocław.[3] In 1401, Bernard Wierusz founded the Pauline monastery.[3] Augustyn Kordecki, prior of the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa, commander of the heroic and successful Polish defense of Jasna Góra during the Swedish invasion in 1655, died in the monastery in Wieruszów in 1673.[3] The monastery was rebuilt in its present form in 1676 in Baroque
style. The church interior contains nine Baroque altars and choir stalls from 1682. There is a portrait of Bernard Wierusz, the first owner and founder of the church at the choir.

The town was annexed by

Jewish
population of more than 2,000.

World War II

As a result of the joint German-Soviet

ghetto in the poorest part of town, turning over their former residences to Poles, and sent both men and women to work camps near Poznań. In August 1942, the remaining Jews were rounded up and held in a local monastery for several days. Several Jews were murdered there. Others were sent to the Łódź Ghetto, and the remainder, perhaps 800–900, were taken by train to the Chełmno extermination camp where they were immediately gassed. After that, local Poles were forced to move into the houses vacated by Jewish townspeople. After the war, a few Jewish survivors returned to Wieruszów but left after several Jews were murdered.[citation needed] The number of survivors is unknown.[8]

Post-war history

The Greater Poland Uprising monument was rebuilt after the war, and it now also commemorates the victims of both world wars.[5] Podzamcze was included with the town limits in 1973.[9] In 1973, during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the death of Augustyn Kordecki, the former Pauline church was graced by the presence of Cardinal Karol Wojtyła - the future Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of the Kalisz Voivodeship, and since 1999 it is part of the Łódź Voivodeship.

Transport

The Polish Expressway S8 (highway) runs just outside of the town limits, and the Voivodeship roads 450 and 482 pass through the town. There is also a train station.

Sports

Local sports clubs include football team Prosna Wieruszów, youth athletics club Start Wieruszów,[10] and martial arts club Husaria Wieruszów.

Notable residents

References

  1. ^ a b "Local Data Bank". Statistics Poland. Retrieved 6 November 2021. Data for territorial unit 1018074.
  2. ^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Województwo sieradzkie i województwo łęczyckie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1998. p. 4.
  3. ^ a b c d Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XIII (in Polish). Warszawa. 1893. p. 389.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ a b c Michalski, Michał (November 2013). "Wieruszów w ogniu". Ziemia Łódzka (in Polish). Łódź: Województwo Łódzkie. p. 19.
  5. ^ a b c "PODZAMCZE (zachodnia część Wieruszowa, miasta powiatowego w województwie łódzkim)". Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (in Polish). Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  6. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 93.
  7. ^ Wardzyńska, p. 186
  8. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7
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  9. ^ Rozporządzenie Prezesa Rady Ministrów z dnia 30 listopada 1972 r. w sprawie utworzenia, zniesienia i zmiany granic niektórych miast., Dz. U. z 1972 r. Nr 50, poz. 327
  10. ^ "UMLKS Start" (in Polish). Retrieved 25 December 2022.
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