Skierniewice

Skierniewice [sk ʲ ɛrɲɛv ʲ it ͡sɛ ] is a city in the region of Łódź in Poland.

Location

The town in the Vistula basin is located today on an area of 32.6 km ² approximately 48,700 inhabitants ( 2000: 48 364, 2005: 49 142 ). From 1975 to 1998 she was the capital of the province of the same name, since it is part of Łódź Voivodeship. It is an important railway junction and connects the cities of Warsaw and Łódź, Koluszki, Kutno and Lowicz.

History

1359 first mentioned in a document in which the Archbishop of Gniezno, Yaroslav I. Bogoria the Duke of Mazovia, Siemowit III. invested with the area around Skierniewice. The city rights were granted Skierniewice in 1463 by King Casimir IV Jagiello. Since the end of the 16th century was Skierniewice, residence of the Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland in which capacity he received the Polish kings in his residence; the last resident in the city was Archbishop Ignacy Krasicki († 1801). Only Prussian, Russian then the city came in 1807 to the Duchy of Warsaw, and in 1815 was incorporated into the Russian Empire in the Congress of Vienna.

Emperor Franz Joseph I, Emperor Wilhelm I and Tsar Alexander III. met from 15 to 17 September 1884 on a hunting lodge in Skierniewice in Russian Poland, accompanied by their foreign ministers, and renewed the "Three Emperors' League " from 1881.

During the First World War, the city was in the front line of the German and Russian soldiers waged fierce battles. Occupied during the Second World War, the entire Jewish population was deported and killed in the extermination camps.

From 1975 to 1998 she was the capital of the province of the same name, since it is part of Łódź Voivodeship. The city is a center of agricultural science.

In the surroundings of the landscaped park of Bolimów and Żelazowa Wola, the birthplace of Frédéric Chopin lie.

Skierniewice since 1965 twin city of Gera.