Dębica
Dębica [ dɛmb iʦa ʲ ] is a city in southeastern Poland. It belongs to the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, and is approximately 40 km west of the provincial capital Rzeszów and about 100 km east of Krakow at the Wisłoka.
History
Dębica was first mentioned in 1293, at that time there was already a wooden church. Casimir III. 1358 gave the town a city charter, in 1446 came the right to hold markets and fairs added. A great fire raged 1554. 1578 there were about 700 people in the city, of which about 20 craftsmen.
In the First Partition of Poland, the city fell to Austria, so that was accompanied by the loss of the city law. 1831 called for a cholera epidemic many lives. The construction of the railway line Lviv- 1856 Vienna Dębica connection was to the rail network. The resulting incipient upturn in 1914 eventually led to the recovery of the city law.
1918, the city came to Poland. In 1937 she became the seat of a Powiats. 1939, before the outbreak of the Second World War, 10,600 people lived in Dębica. Under the German occupation of the Jewish population was interned in the ghetto Dębica in order to deport them from there. Furthermore, here the SS training area Heidelager was created.
During World War II the city was destroyed to 40%. After the reconstruction, they soon had about four and a half as many inhabitants as of 1939.
Due to an administrative reform of the place came 1975 on the Tarnów Voivodeship until it was disbanded in 1998 and the place from 1999 part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship was.
Economy
Goodyear Dunlop tire factory, the resident TC Debica SA (formerly Stomil Debica ) adopted in 1995. Today, the Polish plant is the third largest factory of the Group in the world.
Personalities
- Jerzy Żuławski (* 1874 in Lipowiec, † 1915 in Dębica ), storyteller, poet and playwright
- Ryszard Siwiec (1909-1968), a former soldier of the Home Army, burned himself in protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
- Krzysztof Penderecki ( born 1933 in Dębica ), composer and conductor, 2003 Honorary citizen
- Leszek Pisz (* 1966 in Dębica ), football player
- Mateusz Borek (* 1973 in Dębica ), sports journalist and football commentator
Twin Cities
- Puurs (Belgium )