Międzyrzec Podlaski

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Międzyrzec Podlaski

(Flag)	(Coat of arms)


Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lublin Voivodeship
Area	19.75 km² km²
Population - city - urban - density	17,283 (30 June 2004) none /km²
Latitude Longitude	51° 59′ 00" N 22° 47′ 00" E

Międzyrzec Podlaski (Lat. Meserici, German: Meseritz) is a city in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.

1 History
2 Sight-seeing
3 Economy
4 People
5 Photos
6 External links

[edit] History

The first official recognition of Międzyrzec Podlaski as a city occurred in the year 1477. Since the sixteenth century it has had a large Jewish population. In 1795, the city was occupied by Austria, belonging to the Duchy of Warsaw from 1809 until 1815, when it became a member of the Congress Poland. In 1867 the city became a stop on the Polish railway.

MKS Huragan

At the end of the 1930s approximately 12,000 people, or ¾ of the population, were Jewish. At the end of September 1939, the Red Army occupied the city, but at the beginning of October, the Soviet Union surrendered the city to Germany as part of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Following the surrender, approximately 2,000 of the city’s Jews left the city for the Soviet-occupied zone. The Germans erected a transfer ghetto in the city that was occupied by up to 20,000 prisoners. On the seventeenth of July 1943, that ghetto was liquefied, at which time the last 160-200 residents were shot, and the city was officially declared free of Jews. Fewer than 1% of the Jewish population of the city survived the German occupation.

[edit] Sight-seeing

Worth seeing in the city are the 15th century marketplace and the St. Nicholas Church that was built in the year 1477. The local hospital was erected between the years 1846 and 1950, and the train station came to the city in 1867.

[edit] Economy

Of the approximately 4,900 employed citizens of the city, ca. 36% work in industrial fields, 19% in trade markets, and 11% in education. The unemployment rate in the city was 22% in October 2005.

[edit] People

Jan Brożek
Yehoshua Leib Diskin, hold a rabbinate of this town
Karol Ferdynand Eichler
Kazimierz Kierzkowski
Ryszard Kornacki
Grzegorz Piramowicz

[edit] Photos

Lubelska street	Eagle from Stefan Wyszyński Monument	Old woodenly houses	Railway station
Potocki's Palace	Potocki's Palace - facades	English Park	School
Sacrifices of German Rout Monument	Old chapel	Post-office	Krzna river
Alley of Old Town Market	St. Joseph Church	St. Nicholas Church - Belfry	St. Nicholas Church - facades
St. Nicholas Church - interior	St. Peter and Paul Church	Tower	Chapel beside St. Peter and Paul Church
Wieprz-Krzna canal	Presbytery	Hospital	Grave of american pilot
Catholic cemetery	Catholic church school