BÅ‚aszki
Błaszki ( German Schwarzau, 1943-1945 Schwarzau ( Wartheland ) ) is a town in Poland in Lodz Province. It is the seat of city and rural community in the powiat Sieradzki.
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History
The first mention of the town dates from 1386, when there was already a parish. The right to the holding of weekly markets gave John II Casimir Błaszki on 1 March 1652. Town charter followed in 1722. With the second partition of Poland in 1793, the town was part of Prussia. That same year, the first time the Jews of detectable. With the emergence of the Duchy of Warsaw, the town was part of the same in 1807 and 1815 part of Congress Poland. Before the Second World War there were in the city of about 5,700 inhabitants, half of whom were Jewish. After the invasion of the Wehrmacht in September 1939, they were deported and mostly murdered.
Community
The urban and rural community Błaszki is next to the main town of the same name from 55 districts ( German name until 1945) with a mayor's office ::
Other villages in the municipality are Brzozowiec (velcro Hagen), Kąśnie, Kokoszki, Kopacz, Kostrzewice ( Koestritz ) Kwasków - Kolonia, Marianów, Pęczek, Wilczkowice and Zaborów.
Culture and sights
Structures
- The Church of St. Anne, which was built from 1779 to 1789
- A few houses from the 18th/19th. century
- The station from 1905