Rzeszów
? Rzeszów / i [ ʒɛʃuf ] is a city in southeastern Poland, the capital and major center of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship with over 182 520 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2013).
Between 1941 and 1945 the city was under German occupation the name Reichshof.
Geography
Rzeszów lies on the flood plain of the Wisłok on the edge of the valley of Sandomierz near the Carpathians. The border to Ukraine ( 90 km) and Slovakia (100 km) has made the city a major transportation hub.
History
1354 is the name Resovia first time he is mentioned, it was raised by Magdeburg rights to the city. Beginning of the 15th century, the name of the place was specified in a source under German name Resche.
Culture and Education
Rzeszów is a Roman Catholic bishopric. In the city there is a state university, the Rzeszów Polytechnic as well as several private colleges, including the College of computer science and management.
Pogrom of June 1945
After rumors about the murder of a Christian girl had appeared in the city, the police arrested all the Jews of Rzeszów and performed it on June 1, 1945 in the midst of an angry crowd through the city, while the homes of the arrested Jews were looted. After being released on the same day, fled more than 200 Jews from Rzeszow.
Economy
In Rzeszów many international companies have their headquarters, which are connected with the aviation industry. These include, inter alia, United Technologies Corporation. Air carriers, scientific research centers and institutions of pilot training form the " Aviation Valley ", the aviation cluster around Rzeszów, where 90 % of the production volume of the Polish aviation industry is earned. In addition to aviation industry are here, inter alia, the pharmaceutical company Valeant present, and Cefarm Rzeszów and the IT company Asseco Poland.
Traffic
Not far from the town is the recently modernized international airport Rzeszóz. The A4 motorway and S19 expressway By Rzeszów, after its completion, run.
Personalities
Sons and daughters:
- Marek Balata ( born 1955 ), jazz musician and graphic artist
- Jerzy Bandrowski (1883-1940), Polish writer, journalist and translator
- Stan Borys ( born 1941 ), rock singer in Załęże district
- January Domarski ( b. 1946 ), football player
- Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999), theater director
- Juliusz Kaden - Bandrowski (1885-1944), Polish prose writer and journalist
- Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski (1647-1706), magnate and politician
- Leopold Löffler (1827-1898), painter
- Tomasz Stanko ( born 1942 ), jazz trumpeter
- Marek Stefański (* 1969), organist
- Józef Szajna (1922-2008), painter, writer, director, stage designer, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, former Auschwitz inmate
- Vitold Rek (* 1955), double bass player, jazz musician
- Anja Rubik ( b. 1983 ) Model
- Konrad Wysocki ( b. 1982 ), professional basketball player, player of the German national basketball team
- Fred Zinnemann (1907-1997, actually Alfred Zinnemann ), Austrian- American film director ( Rzeszów was then part of Austria -Hungary )
Twinning
- Bielefeld, Germany (1991 )
- Buffalo, United States ( 1975)
- Kherson, Ukraine
- Ivano- Frankivsk, Ukraine ( 2000)
- Klagenfurt, Austria (1975 )
- Kosice, Slovakia ( 1991)
- Lamia, Greece ( 2005)
- Lviv, Ukraine ( 1992)
- Lutsk, Ukraine ( 2001)
- Nyíregyháza, Hungary ( 1996)