Kozienice
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| Country |  Poland |
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| Voivodeship | Masovian | ||
| County | Kozienice County | ||
| Gmina | Gmina Kozienice | ||
| Established | 13th century | ||
| Town rights | 1322 | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Tomasz Śmietanka | ||
| Area | |||
| - Total | 10.45 km² (4 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| - Total | 18,541 | ||
| - Density | 1,774.3/km² (4,595.3/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 26-900 | ||
| Area code(s) | +48 48 | ||
| Car plates | WKZ | ||
| Website: http://www.kozienice.pl/ | |||
Kozienice [kɔʑɛˈnit͡sɛ] (
listen) (Yiddish: קאזשניץ Kozhnits) is a town in central Poland with 21,500 inhabitants (1995). It is the capital of Kozienice County (Polish Powiat kozienicki).
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[edit] Description
It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999); previously, it was in Radom Voivodeship (1975-1998) and in Kielce Voivodeship (1919-1939, 1945-1975).
At Kozienice there is a huge thermal power station.
Kozienice is in the Radom district, almost four miles from the Vistula, surrounded by forests, water, villages, and towns such as Zwoleń, Gniewoszów, Magnuszew, Mniszów, Ryczywół, Garbatka, and other smaller settlements.
Kozienice gives its name to the protected area called Kozienice Landscape Park.
[edit] Jews in Kozienice
Kozienice had a Jewish community with a long history. Kozienice is pronounced as "Kozhnitz" in Yiddish. In the early 19th century, the Kozhnitzer Magid Yisroel Hopsztajn was one of the pioneers of Hasidism in Poland. He established the Kozhnitz dynasty. In 1856, there were 2,885 people in Kozienice with 1,961 Jews, and in 1897, there were 6,882 people and 3,700 were Jews. Before World War II, about 15,000 souls lived in this region. The Jewish community lived there for about 400 years. The two main industries there were tourism, with Jewish pilgrims visiting the Maggid's tomb, and shoe manufacturing.
[edit] External links
[edit] Jewish references and links
- Sefer Zikaron li-Kehilat Kozhnitz (The book of Kozienice; The birth and the destruction of a Jewish community); Editor: Baruch Kaplinski, Tel Aviv – New York, The Kozienice Organization, 1985 (English, 677 pages),
- Former Residents of Kozhnitz in Israel, 1969 (Hebrew and Yiddish, 516 pages).
- jewishgen.org, Kozienice
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