Zwierzyniec

Infobox Settlement
name = Zwierzyniec
image_shield = POL Zwierzyniec COA.svg
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pushpin_label_position = bottom
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Lublin
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Zamość
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Zwierzyniec
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Jan Skiba
area_total_km2 = 4.82
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 3344
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd = 50 | latm = 37 | lats = | latNS = N | longd = 22 | longm = 58 | longs = | longEW = E
elevation_m = 215
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 22-470
blank_name = Car plates
blank_info = LZA
website = http://www.zwierzyniec.info.pl Zwierzyniec [IPA-pl|z|w|j|e|'|ż|y|ń|e|c] is a town on the Wieprz river in the Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. It has 3,324 inhabitants (2004).

Zwierzyniec is the northernmost town of the Roztocze National Park. The park comprises some of the last remaining sections of the primordial forest of Central Europe, especially spectacular stand of ancient beech trees (Bukowa Gora). It also is a rail junction, located along the Rejowiec Fabryczny - Hrebenne - Munina connection, with a branch line going westwards, to Stalowa Wola, via Biłgoraj.

History

The Zwierzyniec settlement was established in the 16th century by the Zamoyski family. One of the features here is an artificial lake with a number of small islands - one of them contains monuments of the hounds belonging to the Polish Queen Marysieńka Sobieska (primo voto Zamoyska).

On another island the Zamoyskis built a baroque chapel, which became later the main church of the local Catholic parish. It is now known as the St John Nepomucene's parish church - renovated and expanded in early 1960s by father Dutkowski. The access to the chapel island is now via a bridge.

During the Second World War the Germans set up here a transit camp for the detention and further processing of folks that came to their attention (mostly sent to the death camps).

Gallery

ee also

* Zwierzyniec Brewery
* Roztocze