Lubartów
Encyclopedia
Lubartów l is a town in eastern Poland
, with 23,000 inhabitants (2004), situated in Lublin Voivodeship
. It is the capital of Lubartów County
and the Lubartów Commune.
under a founding order issued by King Sigismund the Old. As well as being important economically, the town was a center of Protestant culture and education, following the founding of the school of Wojciech Calissius
1559. From its foundation until World War II, the town also had a large Jewish community, numbering nearly half of the population in the 1930s. However nearly the entire community was destroyed during the war.
Lubartów was a bilingual town for most of its history, Polish
and Yiddish being both widely used. Polish was used among non-Jews as well as for most communication between Jewish and non-Jewish townspeople, while Yiddish was the everyday language of the town's Jewish inhabitants.
The town's original Polish name was "Lewartów" until 1744, when it was changed to Lubartów. Yiddish, however, retains the original name "Lewartów" to this day (but pronounced ['lɛvatof]).
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, with 23,000 inhabitants (2004), situated in Lublin Voivodeship
Lublin Voivodeship
- Administrative division :Lublin Voivodeship is divided into 24 counties : 4 city counties and 20 land counties. These are further divided into 213 gminas....
. It is the capital of Lubartów County
Lubartów County
Lubartów County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Lubartów, which lies north of...
and the Lubartów Commune.
History
It was established in 1543 by Piotr FirlejPiotr Firlej
Piotr Firlej was a Polish nobleman .Piotr became voivode of Lublin Voivodship in 1537 and voivode of Ruthenian Voivodship in 1545. In 1514 he participated in the Battle of Orsza and was a trusted adviser of Queen Bona and King Zygmunt II August. He founded the cities of Janowiec and Lubartów and...
under a founding order issued by King Sigismund the Old. As well as being important economically, the town was a center of Protestant culture and education, following the founding of the school of Wojciech Calissius
Wojciech Calissius
Wojciech z Kalisza was a Polish Unitarian educator, pastor and writer. He opened the school of Lubartów.-References:...
1559. From its foundation until World War II, the town also had a large Jewish community, numbering nearly half of the population in the 1930s. However nearly the entire community was destroyed during the war.
Lubartów was a bilingual town for most of its history, Polish
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
and Yiddish being both widely used. Polish was used among non-Jews as well as for most communication between Jewish and non-Jewish townspeople, while Yiddish was the everyday language of the town's Jewish inhabitants.
The town's original Polish name was "Lewartów" until 1744, when it was changed to Lubartów. Yiddish, however, retains the original name "Lewartów" to this day (but pronounced ['lɛvatof]).
Noted residents
- Klemens Junosz Szaniawski
- Agata Budzyńska
- Bolesław Prus
- Honorat Koźmiński
- Jan KochanowskiJan KochanowskiJan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language.He is commonly regarded as the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, and the greatest Slavic poet, prior to the 19th century.-Life:Kochanowski was born at...
- Ludwik Stanisław Liciński
- Rafał PatyraRafał PatyraRafał Patyra is a polish sport journalist, who has worked in Telewizja Polska since 2003. He also worked for TVN and TV Puls....
- Paweł Wilkowicz
- Bogdan Kacmajor
See also
- Lubartów GhettoLubartów GhettoLubartów Ghetto was established by Nazi Germany and existed from 1941 until October 1942. The Polish Jews of the town of Lubartów were confined within it, amounting to 3,269 people or 53.6% of the town's population according to the 1921 census.. Its inmates also included Jews deported from other...
- Sanguszko family
- Coat of arms of Lewart
- Lewart Lubartów - football club
- Wieprz