Stalowa Wola
Stalowa Wola is a city in south-eastern Poland in the Subcarpathian Voivodship.
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Geography
The city is located in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in powiat Stalowowolski the river San, about 60 km away is the international airport Rzeszóz.
History
Historic settlement core of the town is the village Pławo. It is first mentioned in the 15th century as a royal settlement, with a Jagdhof of King Władysław II Jagiello, who had been created but the Great by Kasimir before 1358. The village lived mainly on hunting and agriculture.
With the first partition of Poland in 1772 Pławo came under Austrian rule. In 1837 the village was privatized and fell to the family Richenbach, 1867 Family Resinger, in the First World War to Maximilian Francke.
1937 is the actual date of origin of the city. This year, the steel plant was built, with significant planning of the former Polish Finance and Economics Minister Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski. The aim was to develop a large industrial region in the center of the country, far away from the threatened borders with Germany and the Soviet Union. The town's name was changed to Stalowa Wola.
During the Second World War, the German occupiers put on a labor camp and a ghetto until the Red Army liberated the town in 1944.
1945 Stalowa Wola became a town. In 1953, the city was acyclic, 1975 Tarnobrzeg part of the province, in 1999, finally, the Subcarpathian Voivodeship.
The steel plant was awarded in 1948 the name Huta Stalowa Wola. On 15 July 1991, the work as Huta Stalowa Wola SA ( hut Stalowa Wola AG) was privatized. It specialized in the export of industrial products ( inter alia Construction ) and was in this respect leads the nation in the 1990s.
Incorporations
The original village Pławo 1937 was greatly magnified by the steel plant. 1973 was incorporated in Stalowa Wola Rozwadów and 1977 Charzewice.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Grzegorz Rosiński ( born August 3, 1941), a cartoonist