Solec-Zdrój
Solec- Zdrój is a municipality and a spa town in Poland in the Province of the Holy Cross about 61 km southeast of Kielce and 17 km south-east of the county town of Busko- Zdrój in the Basin of Sandomierz, a few kilometers from the confluence of the Nida to the Vistula by the stream Struga.
History
The place was first mentioned in the 14th century. In the middle of the 15th century was Jan Feliks Tarnowski, the Governor of Lublin, owner of Sole Source. At the beginning of the 16th century the place of Tartareninvasion fell victim. As a result, he came to Martin Zborowski, the Castellan of Kraków. In the 18th century Solec recovering from the ravages of the past. 1795 was the place with the third partition of Poland to Austria. 1809 Solec came to the Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 which is under Russian rule Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland), whose fate it shared until 1918. After the end of World War II, the place in 1939 came again to the newly created Poland, the Second Polish Republic, under German occupation after 1944 with the People's Republic of Poland, which was converted into the Third Polish Republic in 1989. In 1837, Karol Godeffroy the spa. 1974 was the place Solec the name Solec- Zdrój.
Community
The municipality ( gmina ) in 2006 had 4987 inhabitants, the place around you 900 next to the place Solec- Zdrój includes the villages Chinków, Kików, Ludwików, Magierów, Piasek Maly, Piestrzec, Straznik, Sułkowice, Świniary, Wełnin, Włosnowice, Zagaje Kikowskie, Zagajów, Zagajów - Kolonia, Zagórzany, Zborów, Zielonki and Żuków.
Attractions
Worth seeing are the St. Nicholas Church from 1937 to 1939 and the wooden church in Świniary from the year 1716. Zborów in The Castle was the seat of the magnate family Zborowski ( nobility ).
Spa
Solec- Zdrój has a park with old trees. Also, the landscape park Szaniec ( Szaniecki Landscape Park ) touches the municipality. The place has two mineral water sources with chlorine - iodine -sodium -bromo -sulphide sols, these are considered the world's most powerful healing water source of this article The neoclassical Kurhaus was built in 1926/1927 by Romuald Daniewski. The sanatorium Świt, the former theater and ballroom in eclectic style with neo-Gothic elements, dates from the year 1900.
Solec- Zdrój is the end point of the trail ( szlak Turystyczny ) of Busko -Zdrój (marked white-red- white) and is on the trail Grochowiska - Wiślica (marked white-green- white).