Grójec

Grójec is a town in Poland, in the Masovian Voivodeship. It is the seat of the homonymous Powiats.

• 2.1 Traffic

• 3.1 Sons and daughters of the town

History

The first documentary mention of the city dates from the year 1234. The survey to the city was in 1419 by the Duke Janusz I ( Janusz I starszy ) to Kulm law. In the third partition of Poland Grójec came in 1795 to Prussia. On the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw, the city was part of the same in 1815 and then part of Congress Poland. The construction of the road from Radom to Warsaw by Grójec beginning of the 19th century helped the city to a heyday. 1914, the city receives connection to the rail network which allows a direct connection to Warsaw. In September 1939, the city was occupied during the Polish campaign of the Wehrmacht. From 1940 to 1942 there was a Jewish ghetto in the city The German occupation lasted until the Vistula-Oder operation of the Red Army, which resulted in the city on 15 January 1945, occupied by the Soviet troops. In the following period was Grójec part of the Warsaw voivodship. With the restructuring of the Polish administration, the city came 1975 on the Radom Voivodeship. Since 1999 it has been part of the Masovian Voivodship.

Population Development

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Grójec, located on the street 77 which also the national road 7 ( droga Krajowa 7). To the north, the road reached after about 40 kilometers Warsaw, to the south it crosses about 50 kilometers Radom. Furthermore, results in east-west direction the country road 55 through the city. After about 25 kilometers to the west it reaches the city Mszczonów. In the east, the road crosses at approximately the same distance Góra Kalwaria.

The nearest international airport is the Frederic Chopin Airport Warsaw which is accessible via the European route 77.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Artur Kolodziejski ( b. 1979 ), basketball player