Trzcianne

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**Trzcianne**

Voivodeship	Podlachia
Powiat	Mońki County
Gmina Type	Trzcianne rural
Location:	53°19.8′N 22°40.8′ECoordinates: 53°19.8′N 22°40.8′E
Population	610
Area code	(+48) 85
Postal code	19-104
Car plates	BMN

Trzcianne (Yiddish: טרעסטיני, Trestiny) is a village in eastern Poland, in the Podlachian Voivodeship, in the Powiat of Mońki. It is the seat of the Trzcianne Commune. The population of Trzcianne is ca. 610 people and the population of the gmina is 4 737 people. The Trzcianne Gmina is located in the outskirts of the Biebrza National Park.

[edit] History

First records of Trzcianne come from the 13th century. The name probably comes from reeds (Polish: trzcina) surrounding the river that flowed through the village. According to the records of Aleksander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania, the first Catholic church in Trzcianne was built before 1496. It survived for ca. 100 years. The current, fourth church in Trzcianne was built in 1846 and consecrated in 1860.

For centuries, there were also many Jews living in Trzcianne (see shtetl), and there still is an old Jewish cemetery in the village. About 1,200 Jews were deported to Treblinka during the Holocaust. Both during and after World War II, many inhabitants of Trzcianne were also deported to Kazakhstan by the Soviets.