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| Country |  Poland |
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| Voivodeship | Lublin | ||
| County | Kraśnik County | ||
| Gmina | Kraśnik (urban gmina) | ||
| Established | 14th century | ||
| Town rights | 1377 | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Piotr Czubiński | ||
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| - Total | 25. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Voivodeship The voivodeship or province (województwo has been a high-level Administrative subdivision of Poland since the 14th century Lublin Voivodeship (also known as Lublin Province or województwo lubelskie or simply Lubelskie) is a voivodeship, or Province, in eastern Poland A powiat (pronounced; Polish plural powiaty) is the second-level unit of Local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a County Kraśnik County (powiat kraśnicki is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( Powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. The gmina or Municipality (frequently translated commune) plural gminy, is the principal unit (lowest level of territorial division in Poland Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 29 km² (9. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 8 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| - Total | 36,072 | ||
| - Density | 1,426. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 3/km² (3,694. 2/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 23-200, 23-210 | ||
| Area code(s) | +48 81 | ||
| Car plates | LKR | ||
| Website: http://www.krasnik.pl | |||
Kraśnik [ˈkraɕnik] is a town in eastern Poland with 37,989 inhabitants (2003), situated in the Lublin Voivodeship. Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time Daylight saving time ( DST Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks In common with many Countries, Polish car number plates indicate the Region of Registration of the Vehicle encoded in the number plate Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Lublin Voivodeship (also known as Lublin Province or województwo lubelskie or simply Lubelskie) is a voivodeship, or Province, in eastern Poland It is the seat of Kraśnik County. Kraśnik County (powiat kraśnicki is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( Powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland.
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History
First settled in the 13th century, it received its city charter in 1377. Until the 19th century it belonged to the Zamoyski family. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Zamoyski, plural Zamoyscy is the Surname of a Polish family of hereditary nobles. The town is centered on a hill, and expanded onto the flat land to the north and east. A busy highway still runs through the center of town, cutting diagonally through the town square itself. Public square and city square redirect here For Public Square Cleveland see Public Square and for City Square in Leeds see Leeds City Square.
The Kraśnik town museum, formerly housed in an old convent building near the Parish church, has been scheduled to move into a larger and newer building nearby. A convent is a community of Priests religious brothers religious sisters or Nuns or the building used by the community particularly in the Roman Catholic Church A parish church, in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a Parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches
In August 1914, the town and surrounding area were a focal point of Battle of Krasnik, an opening battle of the World War I struggle between Russia and Central Powers over control of Galicia. The Battle of Kraśnik started on August 23, 1914 in the province of Galicia, in northern Austria (now in present day Poland) and ended The Eastern Front was a theatre of war during World War I in Central and primarily Eastern Europe. The Russian Empire ( Pre-reform Russian: Pоссійская Имперія Modern Russian: Российская Империя translit: Rossiyskaya The Central Powers ( German: "Mittelmächte" Hungarian: "Központi hatalmak" Turkish: "İttifak Galicia (Галичина ( Halychyna) Galicja is a historical region in East Central Europe, currently divided between Poland and Ukraine,
As with much of the Lublin area, Kraśnik was a major center of Judaism, with 5,000 Jews (40% of the population) prior to World War II. Judaism (from the Greek Ioudaïsmos, derived from the Hebrew יהודה Yehudah, " Judah " in Hebrew יַהֲדוּת Yahedut World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Historical accounts place Jews in the area in 1531, but the official right to settle there was granted to Jews in 1584. In 1654, Jewish residence was officially limited to the area near the synagogue, but in practice this was not rigidly enforced. During the war, Kraśnik was the site of the Budzyn labor camp, where the prisoners worked for the Hermann Göring Werke on aircraft production. This camp, with around 3,000 Jews, became a subcamp of Majdanek; 300 workers who remained until July of 1944 survived. Majdanek was a Nazi Concentration camp on the outskirts of Lublin, Poland. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Virtually all left the area, and there are few if any Jews currently resident in the town.
Kraśnik is the site of the second SOS Children's Village in Poland, established in 1991. SOS Children's Villages is an independent non-governmental international development organisation which has been working to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of children Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar.
Kraśnik is also the site of the Tsubaki - Hoover Polska Limited Liability Company, a subsidiary of Tsubaki Nakashima, which manufactures ball and roller bearings. A subsidiary, in business matters is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity A ball bearing is an engineering term referring to a type of Rolling-element bearing which uses Balls to maintain the separation between the moving parts
Local attractions
- The ruin of the 17th century Zamoyski castle (built from wood; there is only a little known about it),
- The 18th century baroque former Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit (1758-1761) and hospital,
- The Lateran Canons, containing St Mary's Ascension church (ca 1469) with paintings by T. As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 17th Century was that Century which lasted from 1601 - 1700 in the Gregorian calendar The 18th century lasted from 1701 to 1800 in the Gregorian calendar, in accordance with the Anno Domini / Common Era numbering system Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc Dolabella, gravestones of the Teczynski family, and the monastery (15th-18th centuries),
- An unusual double synagogue from the 17th century, partially renovated but now in disrepair [1]. Tommaso Dolabella (1570-1650 was a Baroque painter from Venice, who settled in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Royal court of King A synagogue (from Greek: grc συναγωγή transliterated synagogē, "assembly" he בית כנסת beit knesset, "house of
Twin towns
Hajdúböszörmény, Tielt, Lippstadt, Żółkiew
See also
External links
- Official home page
- Kraśnik's Internet Forum LKR.pl
- Satellite photo from June, 2001
- Places in Lubelskie Kraśnik page, with pictures
- Compilation of Jewish family names appearing one or more times in the vital records of Kraśnik
- A list of those from the town of Kraśnik who perished in the Holocaust, taken from Sefer Krasnik (Book of Krasnik)
- Adam Mickiewicz Institute page on Jewish history in Kraśnik
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