Skierniewice

Infobox Settlement
name = Skierniewice

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imagesize = 250px
image_caption = Railway station

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image_shield = POL Skierniewice COA.svg
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pushpin_label_position = bottom
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Łódź
subdivision_type2 = Powiat
subdivision_name2 = City county
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Skierniewice
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Leszek Trębski
established_title = Established
established_date = before 1217
established_title3 = Town rights
established_date3 = 1457
area_total_km2 = 32.6
population_as_of = 2007
population_total = 49132
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd = 51 | latm = 57 | lats = 10 | latNS = N | longd = 20 | longm = 8 | longs = 30 | longEW = E
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 96-100
area_code = +48 46
blank_name = Car plates
blank_info = ES
website = http://www.skierniewice.net.pl Skierniewice [IPA-pl|s|k|j|e|r|ń|e|'|w|i|c|e] is a town in central Poland with 49,132 inhabitants (2007), situated in the Łódź Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Skierniewice Voivodship (1975-1998). It is the capital of Skierniewice County. The town is situated almost exactly half-way between Łódź and Warsaw.

Skierniewice gained municipal rights in 1457. It has a famous railway station that used to be a part of historical Warsaw-Vienna Railway. On September 15 1884 it was the setting for the meeting of the Three Emperors' League.

Famous people connected with Skierniewice region:
* Nobel Prize Winner for Literature Władysław Reymont
* world-renowned pianist Frédéric Chopin
* Jan Kozietulski, a military commander of the armed forces of the Duchy of Warsaw
* Ignacy Krasicki, a Roman Catholic archbishop and a writer

Education

* Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna

Politics

Piotrkow Trybunalski/Skierniewice constituency

Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Piotrkow/Skierniewice constituency in 2005

* Bujak Bogdan, SLD-UP
* Jagieliński Roman, SLD-UP
* Kędziak Tadeusz, LPR
* Kwaśniewska Dorota, Samoobrona
* Łyżwiński Stanisław, Samoobrona
* Musiał Zbigniew, SLD-UP
* Radziszewska Elżbieta, PO
* Sobotka Zbigniew, SLD-UP
* Wojciechowski Janusz, PSL

Municipal politics

* This is believed to be one of the places where the Guzowski / Guzovsky family was born from a place called Guzów.

Twin towns

Gera, Chatelaillon - Plage, Purgstall, Náměšť na Hané, Levice, Szentes