Sierpc
Sierpc ( German: 1939-1941 Schirps, 1941 to 1945 Sichelberg; Yiddish: Sheps, German in the Middle Ages: Scheps ) is a municipality ( gmina miejska ) and administrative headquarters of the rural community in Sierpc powiat Sierpecki. The city is located in the Masovian Voivodeship in Poland. The municipality has about 18,700 inhabitants, to which must be added about 7200 inhabitants of the rural community Sierpc.
Geography
Sierpc situated at an altitude of about 117 meters above sea level. North and south-west of Sierpc there is a larger forest area in the otherwise dominated by the agricultural landscape of Central Poland. The urban area extends over an area of 18.6 km ², the rural community Sierpc on an area of 150.23 km ². The small river flows from east to west Sierpienica through the city, and then empties into the rights Skrwa ( Skrwa Prawa ).
Sierpc is located about halfway between the cities of Warsaw, from Sierpc about 125 km in a north-westerly direction is removed, and Bydgoszcz, about 110 kilometers from the Sierpc the southeast lies. In the vicinity of the city Wloclawek located about 45 kilometers southwest of Sierpc.
Structure
The municipality Sierpc ( Gmina miejska ) is the administrative center of the rural community Sierpc ( gmina wiejska ) is not part of it. The rural community Sierpc is composed of the following localities:
Białe Błoto Białoskóry, Białyszewo, Białyszewo - Towarzystwo, Bledzewko, Bledzewo, Borkowo Kościelne, Borkowo Wielkie Dąbrówki, Dębowo, Dziembakowo, Goleszyn, Gorzewo, Grodkowo - Włóki, Grodkowo - Zawisze, Karolewo, Kisielewo, Kręćkowo, Kwaśno, Mieszaki, Mieszczk, Miłobędzyn, Nowe Piastowo, Nowy Susk, Osówka, Pawłowo, Piaski, Podwierzbie, Rachocin, Rydzewo Stare Piastowo, Studzieniec, Sudragi, Sułocin - Teodory, Sułocin - Towarzystwo, Susk, Szczepanki, Warzyn Kmiecy, Warzyn - skóry, Wernerowo, Wilczogóra, Zochowo
History
The first written mention of the settlement Sierpc dates from the year 1322. 1322 was the settlement of rights to self-government, which they are collected to the city. Other written sources from the early 11th century indicate an earlier higher position some places, especially in the area around Sierpc before the Christianization of the local population by the Catholic Church to go. Whether it was exactly at one of the aforementioned towns and castles while the present township Sierpc, but is not properly verified. During the Northern War with Sweden, the district was almost completely devastated and Sierpc lost his position as a city, which regained the place until the year 1867.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz (1916-1998), composer and music educator
- Jerzy Adamski (1937-2002), featherweight boxer
- Andrzej Jacek Nowakowski (born 1971 ), politician, mayor Płocks