Sulejów
Sulejow [ su'lɛjuf ] is a town in Poland in Lodz Province. It is the seat of the homonymous urban and rural community in the powiat Piotrkowski. The municipality includes the town Barkowice Mokre.
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History
The first written mention of the village dates from the year 1145. 1177 be settled Cistercian monks in the area and built the local monastery Sulejow. The city was chartered the place between the years 1279 and 1292nd 1313 gave Władysław I the Elbow- the place the right to trade in salt, meat and fabrics. 1388 gave Władysław II Jagiello Sulejow the right to a weekly market on Wednesdays, respectively. With the Third Partition of Poland, the town was part of Prussia in 1795. With the formation of the Duchy of Warsaw, the town was part of the same in 1807 and 1815 part of Congress Poland. Four years later the Cistercian monastery was dissolved. 1870 reform of the municipal law was carried out on Polish soil by Tsar Alexander II, in which the number of cities has been reduced from 452 to 114. Among the cities that lost their city status, was also Sulejow. 1899 began the planning of a narrow- gauge railway to Piotrków. 1904 began the operation of the railway. 1927 was the place again the municipal law. During the Second World War Sulejow was occupied by the Wehrmacht. 1942, a ghetto and from 1944 to 1945 to a forced labor camp was established. At the end of the war the town was destroyed to 80%.
2004 lived 3,186 men and 3,126 women in the city.
Twinning
- Tišnov, Czech Republic
Culture and sights
- The Romanesque Abbey Church of Saint Thomas was inaugurated in 1232 Construction began 1177th
- The subsequent former Cistercian monastery with bastions and partly Romanesque exterior walls.
- The neo-Gothic church of St. Florian is from the year 1903.
- The cemetery chapel dates from the first half of the 19th century.
- The baroque church of Saint Margaret.