Navahrudak

Nawahradak ( weißruss. Наваградак, also Навагрудак / Nawahrudak, russ Новогрудок / Novogrudok, poln Nowogródek, Lithuanian Naugardukas ) is a city in western Belarus in the Hrodsenskaja Woblasz with about 29,300 inhabitants ( 2010). It is the headquarters of Rajon Nawahradak.

History

The city came late 10th century under the control of Kievan Rus. After their decay by the attacks of the Mongols in the 13th century, the area came under the rule of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1444 Nowogródek received city rights under Magdeburg law. Nowogródek developed into the most important city Schwarzrutheniens, so they eventually in 1507 the seat of a province and in 1581 one of the courts of Lithuania within the 1569 redesigned by the Union of Lublin, the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth was.

As a result of the third partition of Poland in 1795 was the city as the seat of county government in the Minsk province of the Russian Empire. After 1918/1921 Nowogródek fell to the Second Polish Republic, was again the capital of a province of the same name. The on-coming as a result of the German - Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in September 1939, Red Army kept the city as part of the Byelorussian SSR by the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 under control. After the reconquest of 1944 the political allocation from 1939 has been restored.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 Nawahradak part of the independent state of Belarus.

Coat of arms

Description: Red stands en face ( facing the viewer ) on the green aufgebogenem sign foot blaugeflügelter a man dressed in black with a silver sword in his right hand and a silver beam balance in her left hand.

People

• ( Mickiewicz was born on 24 December 1798 in Zaosie, a village south of Nawahradak ) In Nawahradak the Polish national poet Adam Mickiewicz was baptized in 1799. In Nawahradak he spent his childhood and experienced first 1812 shiny invasion and a few months later the terrible misery of the defeated Napoleon's soldiers.
• Born in Nawahradak was Alexander Harkavy, Jewish writer, lexicographer and linguist who has rendered outstanding especially after his emigration to the United States to support the research and care of the Yiddish language.
• Near the village, the Bielski brothers were born, which later became the Bielski partisans were.
• In the city lives a minority Muslim Lipka Tatars.

Attractions

• Various houses from the 18th and 19th centuries
• Synagogue from the 18th century
• Ruins of the castle of Litauerfürsten Mindaugas from the mid-13th century
• Catholic parish church from the early 15th century
• Adam Mickiewicz House