Wysokie Mazowieckie
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Wysokie Mazowieckie | |
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 Saint John the Baptist and All Saints church in Wysokie Mazowieckie | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Wysokie Mazowieckie | |
| Coordinates: 52°55′9″N 22°30′52″E / 52.91917°N 22.51444°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship |  Podlaskie |
| County | Wysokie Mazowieckie |
| Gmina | urban gmina |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jarosław Siekierko |
| Area | |
• Total | 15.24 km2 (5.88 sq mi) |
| Population (2013[1]) | |
• Total | 9,503 |
| • Density | 620/km2 (1,600/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 18-200 |
| Area code | +48 086 |
| Car plates | BWM |
| Website | wysokiemazowieckie.pl |
Wysokie Mazowieckie ([vɨˈsɔkʲɛ mazɔˈvjɛt͡skʲɛ]; Yiddish: וויסאקע-מאזאוויעצק, romanized: Visoka-Mazovietzk) is a town in north-eastern Poland, in Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the capital of Wysokie Mazowieckie County. Population is 10,034 as of 2005[update].
History
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Wysokie was founded by Polish settlers from nearby Mazovia in the Middle Ages.[2] It was a royal settlement, and in 1469 the first parish church was founded.[2] In 1503, Alexander Jagiellon granted Magdeburg town rights, confirmed previous laws, and granted brewing rights to the townspeople.[2] Later, it became a private town of various Polish nobles, including the Potocki and Piotrowski families,[2] administratively located in the Podlaskie Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. King Stanisław August Poniatowski established four annual fairs thanks to efforts of Andrzej Piotrowski.[2]
Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Germany until 1944.
Economy
[edit]In town there is one of the biggest dairy companies in this part of Europe - "Mlekovita". in 2018, the city was among the richest municipalities in Poland, has ranked 11th in the country
Jewish cemetery
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The Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie had been devastated in World War II. It was restored in 2006 and, protected by a fence, is maintained regularly by the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland. The Jewish cemetery contains a memorial to local Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. The memorial monument was vandalized in August 2012.[3]
Sport
[edit]- Ruch Wysokie Mazowieckie - Polish football club
International relations
[edit]Twin towns – Sister cities
[edit]Wysokie Mazowieckie is twinned with:
Notable persons from Wysokie Mazowieckie
[edit]- Jerzy Barycki (born 1949 in Wysokie Mazowieckie), Polish-Canadian water resources engineer and civic activist
- Jacek Bogucki (born 1959 in Wysokie Mazowieckie), Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005 with 7,189 votes in 24 Białystok district as a candidate from the Law and Justice list.
- Wojciech Borzuchowski (born 1961 in Wysokie Mazowieckie), Polish politician, a member of Law and Justice party until 2007, when he joined the Polish People's Party. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2001 and served until 2005.
- Jacob Burck (1907–1982), Polish-born Jewish-American painter, sculptor, and award-winning editorial cartoonist. Active in the Communist movement from 1926 as a political cartoonist and muralist, Burck quit the Communist Party after a visit to the Soviet Union in 1936, deeply offended by political demands there to manipulate his work.
- Przemysław Czajkowski (born 1988 in Wysokie Mazowieckie), Polish athlete specializing in the discus throw. His personal best in the event is 65.61 meters, achieved in 2012 in Łódź.
- Jan Stanisław Jankowski (1882–1953; noms de guerre Doktor, Jan, Klonowski, Sobolewski, Soból), Polish politician, an important figure in the Polish civil resistance during World War II and a Government Delegate at Home. Arrested by the NKVD, he was sentenced in the Trial of the Sixteen and murdered in a Soviet prison.
- Kazimierz Kamieński (nom de guerre "Gryf" and "Huzar"; 1919–1953), Polish Army officer, commander in the underground Polish Home Army (AK), ROAK and the anti-communist organization Freedom and Independence (WiN). He was one of the longest fighting soldiers of the Polish anti-Communist resistance after World War II.
- Jan Kucharzewski (1876–1952), Polish historian, lawyer, and politician. He was the prime minister of Poland from 1917 to 1918.
- Łukasz Załuska (born 1982), Polish professional football goalkeeper.
References
[edit]- ^ Demographic Yearbook of Poland 2014 Archived 20 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XIV (in Polish). Warszawa. 1895. pp. 138–139.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Jewish cemetery in Poland is vandalized". JTA. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
External links
[edit]- Official town webpage (Polish)
- Wysokie Mazowieckie Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Book (Yiddish, Hebrew & English)
- Wysokie-Mazowieckie Memorial Book
- We Remember Jewish Wysokie Mazowieckie
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