Narewka
Narewka (White Russian Нараўка / Narauka ) is a village in the powiat Hajnowski in the Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland, near the border with Belarus. Narewka is seat of the rural commune ( gmina wiejska ). Many of the inhabitants belong to the Belarusian minority in Poland.
History
1639 moved the iron ore miner Tomasz Wydra Polkowski in Narewka. The town's economy was dominated by the melting of bog iron ore.
In the area of today's community Narewka originated in the 18th century, four courtyards Meier: Grodzisk, Lewkowo, Luka and Siemianówka. In the third partition of Poland in 1795 Narewka fell to Russia.
In the second half of the 19th century Narewka received city rights, but the exact date is not known. 1888 Narewka had about 860 inhabitants, including 780 Jews. The railway line Hajnówka - Wołkowysk led since 1908 by the resort.
In the interwar period, small industries, a turpentine factory, the glass works of Hackiel and a windmill in the village were established.
During the Second World War, the city was not destroyed, but many resident Jews were victims of the Holocaust.
Religions
The village has a Catholic and an Orthodox church. Also, there was a synagogue that was destroyed by the Jewish population, as they had been desecrated by the use as a warehouse by the Red Army in 1939, in their view.
Attractions
- Białowieża National Park
- Nature Reserves Wilczy Szlak, Głuszec, Dolina Waliczówki, Siemianówka
- Natural Monuments (62 individual trees and 4 glacial boulders )
- Siemianówka reservoir ( 3250 ha)
- The natural Narewkatal
- Trails Wilczy Szlak, Wokół uroczyska Głuszec ( in the National Park of Białowieża ), Białowieża, Narewka, Masiewo, Babia Góra, Siemianówka, Stary Dwór, Michałowo (planned ) and the trail Pod Dębami in the woods Promotion complex Puszcza Białowieska in Świnoroje with campfire places and a campsite