Radziejów

Radziejów [ raʥɛjuf ] ( German 1943-45: Rädichau ) is a city in the Polish province of Kujawy and lies about 35 km west of Wloclawek. Radziejów is the seat of powiat Radziejowski and has about 6,000 inhabitants.

History

The oldest written record as Radeow can be found in a document of 1142 in which the surrender of the town to the monastery Mogilno was confirmed. 1252 was the collection Radziejóws to the city, which was also confirmed in 1298. In 1702 the Royal Castle, the hitherto existed here, was blown up by the Swedes. After the Third Partition of Poland Radziejów came to Prussia, but was incorporated into the Napoleonic era 1807 in the Duchy of Warsaw. By the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the city was connected to the newly built Congress Poland, which was connected even in personal union with Russia and in 1832 this also came up. A great fire destroyed much of the city in 1831. 1867 then went to the city status are lost. Only in 1919 was followed by the recent city survey. 1956, the district Radziejów was founded. The county was dissolved in 1975, but re-established in the administrative reform in Poland in 1999.

Attractions

• Gothic church of 1331, changed from 1860 to 1864
• Franciscan monastery from the 14th - 18th Century, in the Church of the Holy Cross from 1330-1331 and 1657
• Old Town Hall 1822-1826

Gmina

The rural commune ( gmina wiejska ) to which the city has not heard Radziejów itself an area of 92.6 km ² which 4424 inhabitants (June 30, 2013).

It includes the following localities: