Bychawa
Bychawa [ bɨxava ] is a city in the powiat Lubelski in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. Bychawa is also seat of the urban and rural commune ( gmina miejsko - wiejska ).
Geography
The town lies about 25 kilometers south of the province capital Lublin.
History
The first written mention of the town dates from 1325. The village was the seat of the parish of Saints Peter and Paul ( Sw. Piotra i Paweł ) and belonged to the estates of Dołegów family. 1537 was the place of Sigismund I the town right after Magdeburg rights conferred. 1639 Church of St John the Baptist was inaugurated. In the third partition of Poland in 1795, the city was part of Austria. 1809 Bychawa was then part of the Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 part of Congress Poland. 1869 Bychawa lost his municipal law, as Tsar Alexander II in response to the January Uprising, the number of cities reduced on Polish territory. 1906, the local fire brigade was founded. After the end of World War I, the town was part of the re- created Poland. In September 1939 Bychawa was occupied during the Polish campaign the Wehrmacht. Right at the beginning of the occupation a ghetto for Jews was established. The ghetto was liquidated in the summer of 1942, approximately 2,500 members of the Jewish community lost their lives. In July 1944, the Armia Krajowa freed as part of its action Burza ( Akcja Burza ) the settlement before the Red Army invaded. In 1956 it was seat of the powiat Bychawski. Two years later, the place was again awarded its town charter. Due to the administrative reform in Poland Bychawa lost in 1975 the seat of the Powiats.
Twinning
- La Chapelle- sur -Erdre (France), since 2000
Culture and sights
- Church of St John the Baptist - built in 1639, it was later rebuilt several times
- Cemetery with graves from the early 19th century
- Wooden belfry of 1862
Community
The village of around 12,000 inhabitants has a an area of 146.19 km ². Of these, about 12.5 km ² forest and 0.17 km ² water surface.
Economy and infrastructure
The nearest international airport is the Frederic Chopin Airport Warsaw, which is located about 180 kilometers north-west. About 210 kilometers south-east is the international airport of Krakow.
The Province Road 834, which is about five miles south of the city branching off from the 842, running in from the south to the northwest by Bychawa. It ends about 25 kilometers from Bychawa away in Bełżyce. They crossed in about 16 kilometers from the provincial road 19 of Rzeszów via Lublin to Suwałki.