Szydłowiec

Infobox Settlement
name = Szydłowiec
motto = Dla Boga, Ojczyzny i społeczności
For God, Country and community

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imagesize = 250px
image_caption = Town panorama
image_shield = POL Szydłowiec COA.svg
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Masovian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Szydłowiec County
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Gmina Szydłowiec
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Andrzej Jarzyński
established_title = Established
established_date = 12th century
established_title3 = Town rights
established_date3 = 1427
elevation_m = 260
area_total_km2 = 21.93
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 12030
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd = 51
latm = 14
lats =
latNS = N
longd = 20
longm = 51
longs =
longEW = E
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 26-500
area_code = +48 48
blank_name = Car plates
blank_info = WSZ
website = http://www.szydlowiec.pl Szydłowiec [IPA-pl|sz|y|'|d|ł|o|w|j|e|c] (Latin: Shidloviecz, Russian: Шидловец, Hebrew: שידלוביץ, Yidish: שידלָאווצע) is a town in Szydłowiec County, Mazovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 15,243 inhabitants (December 31, 2005). It is the seat of Szydłowiec Commune ("Gmina Szydłowiec"). Previously, from 1975 to 1998, it was in the Radom Voivodeship.

History

From the 12th century the environs of Szydłowiec belonged to the powerful knightly family of Odrowąż, who descended from Moravian-Bohemian Baworowic family. In the 13th century the site of the present castle was occupied by a stronghold on an artificial island with wood and earth defences and by a village called Szydłowiec. The present town came into being in the early 15th century and together with the neighbourigh estate was the propert of the Szydłowiecki and Radziwiłł families until the 19th century.The town flourished in the 16th and the first half of 17th centuries. It was then an important centre of trade and crafts, mainry stone-masonry based on the exploatition of the local sandstone which was easy to work. This stone was used to carve architectural sculptural elements and to make tools for agriculture. It was also a building material for the local Saint Sigsmunt Church, Castle in Szydłowiec and the Town hall in Szydłowiec; moreover, it was sent to Kielce, Cracow and Warsaw. Among the goods traded in vere agricurtular products.The period of wars 1648-1717 and numerous epidemics and fires brought abought a decline of Szydłowiec,which persisted for centuries, its state being yet aggravated after the partitions of Poland. The town owes this present cheracter to transformations in urban design and architecture which took place in the second half of the 19th century and in the 20th century.

Szydłowiec also had a strong Jewish community until World War II. At one point it had a population that was of a Jewish majority. It was home to Grand Rabbi Nathan David Rabinowitz (d. 1865), the grandson of Grand Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Peshischa, and the father of the Biala Hasidic dynasty.

References

External links

* [http://mapa.szukacz.pl/?x=628734&y=374507&m=Szyd%b3owiec&w=mazowieckie&p=szyd%b3owiecki&g=Szyd%b3owiec&z=3 Map, via mapa.szukacz.pl]