Piotrków Trybunalski
Piotrków [ p ʲ ɔtrkuf trɨbunalski ] ( German Petrikau ) is a town with about 79,000 inhabitants in central Poland, in the region of Łódź.
The city is situated on the plain of Piotrków on the rivers and Strawa Strawka, a tributary of the Pilicą.
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City coat of arms and the city flag
As one of only three cities in Poland Piotrków leads the white Polish national eagle ( in the early Piast form without crown) in the red box as a coat of arms.
History
Economy
The city is to Lodz is the second largest industrial center of the province and has: glass industry, machinery industry, paper industry, textile industry, wood industry, building materials industry, as well as some larger logistics companies and construction companies.
Traffic
Currently, the following roads connect the city with the road network:
- Autostrada A1/Droga Krajowa 1 (E75 ): Gdańsk - Toruń - Łódź - Piotrków - Częstochowa - Cieszyn
- Droga Krajowa 8 ( E67 ): Breslau - Piotrków - Warsaw - Białystok - Budzisko
- Droga Krajowa 12: Leszno - Kalisz - Piotrków - Radom - Lublin - Chelm - Dorohusk
- Droga Krajowa 91: Częstochowa - Radomsko - Piotrków - Głuchów
The city currently has two detours, the eastern bypass of DK12 (about 5 miles) and the North West Bypass of the A1, DK1 and DK8 (approx. 16 km).
In addition, there are the southern bypass (planned S12) and the bypass around the city center ( DK91 ) in planning.
Colleges and Schools
In Piotrków there are several branches of major universities: the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, the Łódź University of Economics and Humanities, the Łódź School of Economics and independent schools, as the teachers college and a branch of the Institute for Environmental Care at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
Piotrków also has (as of 2013):
Attractions
- Parish Church of the Holy Apostle James, Gothic and Baroque chapels, 13th to 14th century;
- Former Dominican monastery with the Church of the Holy Iacentius and the Saints Dorothea, Gothic in 1350;
- St. Bernard Church Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Baroque, about 1626;
- Evangelical Church ( former Piaristenkirche ), Baroque around 1689;
- Former Jesuit College by the Church of the Holy Francis Xavier, Baroque, around 1695;
- Russian Orthodox Church of All Saints, Classicism, 1844;
- Small Synagogue, Baroque, around 1790;
- Great Synagogue, Historicism, 1875 (now Public Library );
- Royal Castle ( residential tower ), late Gothic, 1511;
- Byki Castle, Renaissance, about 1590;
- Town houses on the ring, 17 - 18th Century, originally late Baroque facades rebuilt in the 19th century;
- Numerous houses in Art Nouveau style, especially in the avenue 3 Maja;
- Cemeteries in the " Friedhofallee " along the river Strawka: Catholic, Protestant, Russian Orthodox, Jewish cemetery and military cemetery from World War 1, with many interesting tombstones (some dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, here from older urban cemeteries transferred ).
Twin Cities
- Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
- Maladsetschna, Belarus
- Velenje, Slovenia
- Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary
- Marijampolė, Lithuania
- Rivne, Ukraine
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Bogdan Daras ( b. 1960 ), Polish Ringer
- Mariusz Dmochowski (1930-1992), Polish actor and director
- Violetta Frankiewicz ( b. 1977 ), athlete
- Maciej Ganczar (* 1976), literary scholar, German studies, literary translators
- Israel Meir Lau ( born 1937 ), an important Israeli rabbi
- Damazy Kotowski (1861-1943), Polish painter
- Anita Lipnicka ( b. 1975 ), Polish singer and songwriter
- Louis Lucas (1796-1854), Board of Education in East Prussia and Posen
- Waldemar Otto ( born 1929 ), sculptor
- Ernestine Rose (1810-1892), Polish- American women's and civil rights activist
- Stefan Rowecki (1895-1944), commander of the Home Army
- Adam Szymczyk (* 1970), art critic and exhibition curator
- Lazar Wechsler (1896-1981), Swiss film producer