Piaski

Piaski, formerly Piaski Luterskie, is a town with 2658 inhabitants ( as of June 30, 2013) in Poland. It has an area of ​​9 km ², is the powiat Świdnicki, Lublin Voivodeship to. Piaski located 16 km south-east of the river Świdnik Giełczew.

History

The first written mention of the village Piaski dates from 1401. During the 15th century the town was granted city rights in 1470 Pyassek alias Gyelczew was first mentioned as a city. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the population was Protestant, to a large extent, so that in this period the city name Piaski Luterskie naturalized. In the following years the number of Jewish residents grew rapidly. She was temporarily over two-thirds of the total population and there was a shtetl. 1795, the city came before the Third Partition of Poland to Austria, which lost these territories again soon. 1809 belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw and Piaski from 1815 to Congress Poland. In 1869, the city lost its city rights. With the establishment of the First Polish Republic the place belonged to Poland. Of the 3,974 inhabitants were 2,674 Jews in 1921. After the German occupation in World War II Piaski was part of the General Government, at that time lived 4,165 Jews in Piaski. In the Jewish shtetl in Piaski a ghetto was established in the several thousand Jews were transported from the Lublin ghetto and from the German Empire and were made from the regular transports to the extermination camp Belzec.

1993 Piaski was returned to the city rights.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Antoni Norbert Patek (1812-1877), watchmaker and founder of the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer Patek Philippe

Transmitter

Since 1990 ' " 22 ° 52 N, 2' 18" O51.13388888888922.871666666667 located near Piaski at 51 ° 8, a 342 -meter-high radio mast for FM and TV. This transmission tower is since the collapse of the transmitting mast of Radio Warsaw in Konstantynów the fourth- tallest building in Poland.

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