Suchowola
Suchowola is a town of about 2,200 inhabitants in north-eastern Poland. The city lies on the eastern edge of the Biebrzasümpfe and belongs to the powiat Sokolski in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Suchowola is regarded as one of the geographical centers of Europe.
History
The first written mention of the village dates back to 1576th In the 17th century a strong Jewish community was born. 1698 Suchowola received by August the Strong the right to holding a Jewish year market and got 1770 awarded by Stanislaus Augustus II the city rights.
1775 established the Polish cartographer and astronomer Szymon Antoni Sobiekrajski Suchowola as the geographical center of Europe.
Between 1795 and 1807 the town belonged to Prussia, then to Russia until 1918 and then to Poland.
In 1939, the city was occupied by the German Reich. In July 1941, organized pogroms against Polish citizens in Suchwola their Jewish fellow citizens.
1950 Suchowola lost its city rights, but is since 1997 a city.
In the city center a boulder was erected, which marks the geographical center of Europe.
Personalities
- Jerzy Popiełuszko (* 1947) in Okopy, by the Communists murdered priest
Gmina
The urban and rural commune ( gmina miejsko - wiejska ) Suchowola covers an area of 255.89 km ² and has 4,430 inhabitants ( 2005). This includes the following localities:
- Bachmackie colony
- Czerwonka
- Domuraty
- Grodzisk
- Grymiaczki
- Horodnianka
- Jatwieź Mała
- Jatwieź Wielka
- Karpowicze
- Kiersnówka
- Kopciówka
- Krzywa
- Laudańszczyzna
- Okopy
- Pokośno
- Połom
- Rutkowszczyzna
- Suchowola - city
- Wólka