Chrzanów
Listen Chrzanów? / I [ xʃanuf ] (1941-1945 Krenau ) is a city in the powiat Chrzanowski in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. It is the seat of the district ( powiat ) Chrzanowski and the same urban and rural municipality ( gmina miejsko - wiejska ).
- 3.1 Coat of Arms
- 3.2 Town twinning
- 4.1 Museums
- 4.2 Structures
- 5.1 Geography
- 5.2 sołectwo
- 5.3 Formation
- 5.4 traffic
- 7.1 External links
- 7.2 footnotes
Geography
Geographical location
Chrzanów located 30 kilometers south-east of Katowice and 40 km west of Krakow. The city lies on the River Chechło, a tributary of the Vistula (Wisła ) on the border between the Kraków - Częstochowa highland and the Silesian Highlands.
Boroughs
The city is divided into 10 districts. The districts are: Borowiec, Kąty Kościelec, Młodości, Niepodległości, Polnoc - Tysiąclecie, Rospontowa, Stara Huta, Stella and Śródmieście. The districts all have the status of a Osiedle.
History
Archaeological suggest that the area was already inhabited in the Stone Age. Already in the twelfth century a castellany to have existed at this location. In the 14th century Chrzanów became a town, in a document of 1500 states that this is implemented. In 1581 the town was granted the right to hold four fairs. Over the next two centuries of decline of the SADT was. Then came in the 18th century, the city in possession of Józef Kanty Ossoliński, he set up a commission in 1763 to develop the city. In the third partition of Poland, the city came to West Galicia 1809-1815 Chrzanów was part of the Duchy of Warsaw. After the Congress of Vienna, the city of the Republic of Krakow. After the end of the Republic of Krakow, the city came to the Grand Duchy of Kraków. After the First World War Chrzanów belonged to the Province of Cracow ( 1921-1939 ). From 1920 to 1924, in Chrzanów the first locomotive factory in Poland, the Fablok SA built. On September 4, 1939 Chrzanów was occupied by German troops, was then occupied by the Red Army on 24 January 1945. Shortly after the liberation Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego began to build communist power structures. From 1975 to 1998, the village belonged to the Province of Katowice. In 1999, the town belonged to the then newly formed Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Policy
Coat of arms
Description: The split front coat of arms shows the split twelve times in black and gold shield of Saxony with the diamond ring and back in red the gold winning and so reinforced and gezungten silver Polish Eagle. About the shield rotbemützte the golden crown with the orb. On historicized plate per hang a golden hops fruit.
Symbolism: Coat of arms with crown. Left and right at the sign for a hanging fruit hops is shown in each case. The shield is divided vertically into two halves. On the left, an eagle is shown on a red background. This is reminiscent of the membership of the Duchy of Warsaw. The right side is black / gold stripes and a diamond ring. The number of black -and-gold division is increased from 9 to 12 and is a reminder of the temporary membership of Saxony under Albert Casimir of Sachsen -Teschen. The present form of the coat of arms was introduced in July 1990.
Twinning
There are twinned with
Culture and sights
Museums
- Museum Chrzanów Ireny and Mieczysława Mazarakich
Structures
- Church of St. Nicholas
- Church " Johanes the Baptist " in Kościelec
- Warehouse from the sixteenth century (now part of a museum )
- House Urbańczyk
- Villa in Płaza
- Lime kiln in Płaza
Community
Geography
The municipality has a surface area of 79.33 km ². 45 % of its territory is used for agriculture, 37 % is covered by forest.
Sołectwo
The community has six Sołectwos ( Soltysships ), these are Balin, Luszowice, Okradziejówka, Płaza, Pogorzyce and Źrebce.
Education
The municipality has eleven kindergartens ( Przedszkole ), nine elementary schools ( szkoła podstawowa ) five middle schools ( gimnazjum ) and two high schools ( Liceum ). The church also operates a public library.
Traffic
Through the village the railway line runs the Autostrada A4, the provincial road 79 and the two provincial roads DW781 DW933 and, also 93 of Trzebinia after Zebrzydowice.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Mikołaj z Chrzanowa (around 1485-1562 ), organist and composer
- Isaac German (1907-1967), Marxist author and journalist
- Masha Kaléko (1907-1975), poet
- Marian Konarski (1909-1998), painter
- Andrzej Grabowski ( born 1952 ), actor
- Jerzy Styczyński (born 1958 ), musician
- Leszek Nowak (born 1964 ), musician
- Zbigniew Wasiel (born 1966 ), sculptor
- Mariusz Jakus (born 1967 ), actor