Albigowa Explained

Albigowa
Settlement Type:	Village
Total Type:
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Type1:	Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:	Subcarpathian
Subdivision Type2:	County
Subdivision Name2:	Łańcut
Subdivision Type3:	Gmina
Subdivision Name3:	Łańcut
Coordinates:	50.0167°N 36°W
Pushpin Map:	Poland
Pushpin Label Position:	bottom
Population Total:	2900

Albigowa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łańcut, within Łańcut County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies on the Sawa river, approximately 6km (04miles) south of Łańcut and 170NaN0 east of the regional capital Rzeszów.^[1]

In 2004 the village had a population of 2,900.

Jewish history

Between 1942 and 1943, German troops murdered 62 people of Jewish origin in at least nine executions. In one of them, which happened in autumn 1943, 25 Jews were shot to death. In summer 1942, 10 local Jews were killed by the village of Kraczkowa.^[2]

Arabian stud farm

After the World War II, a stud farm for Arabian horses was set up in Albigowa.^[3] It was the birthplace of Bask.^[4]

See also

• Walddeutsche

Notes and References

1. Web site: Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) . 2008-06-01 . Polish.
2. Web site: History - Jewish community before 1989 - Albigowa - Virtual Shtetl . 2014-09-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102921/http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/albigowa/5,history/ . 2016-03-04 . dead .
3. Web site: Jeffrey Wintersteen, A Trip to Albigowa, Arabian World, 2011 . 2014-11-13 . https://archive.today/20141113105723/http://www.arabianhorseworld.com/live/library/2011/10/albigowa/ . 2014-11-13 . dead .
4. http://albigowa.com.pl/indexang.php Bask Stud Farm Albigowa