| Błonie | |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Coordinates: | 52.2°N 57°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Masovian |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Warsaw West |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Błonie |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Zenon Reszka |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 11th century |
| Established Title2: | Town rights |
| Established Date2: | 1337 |
| Area Total Km2: | 9.09 |
| Area Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population As Of: | 31 December 2021 |
| Population Total: | 12058 |
| Population Density Km2: | 1327 |
| Population Footnotes: | [3] [4] |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 05-870 to 05-872 |
| Area Code: | +48 22 |
| Blank Name: | Car plates |
| Blank Info: | WZ |
| Blank Name Sec2: | National roads |
| Blank1 Name Sec2: | Voivodeship roads |
| Website: | http://www.blonie.pl/ |
Błonie is a town in Warsaw West County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 12,058 as of December 2021.[3]
The settlement dates back to the 8th century. It was first mentioned in the 11th century, and already in the 12th century constituted a sizeable settlement with the first church founded in 1257 by Duke Konrad II of Masovia. The church built in the Early Gothic style exists to this day, although rebuilt several times. The town rights were granted to Błonie by Duke Władysław of Kraków on 2 May 1338.[5] Błonie was a royal town of Poland and a county seat in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. In the 16th century Błonie was a prosperous town, especially known for shoemaking and brewing.[5] Five annual fairs were held in the town.[5] The town was granted new royal privileges in 1580 and 1688.[5] One of two main routes connecting Warsaw and Dresden ran through the town in the 18th century and Kings Augustus II the Strong and Augustus III of Poland often traveled that route.[6] In 1794, during the Kościuszko Uprising, Poles led by Stanisław Mokronowski won the Battle of Błonie against Prussia.
During the Nazi German invasion of Poland at the onset of World War II, the unit of Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler murdered 50 civilians (mostly Jews) on the outskirts of Błonie in a single mass execution, on (pl) of 18 September 1939. In 1939, the Germans established a transit camp for Polish prisoners of war in the town, and later also a forced labour camp.[5] The Polish resistance movement was active in the town's vicinity.[5]
German authorities established a Jewish ghetto in Błonie in December 1940,[7] in order to confine the Jewish population of the town for the purpose of persecution, terror, and exploitation.[8] The ghetto was liquidated in February 1941, when all its remaining 2,100 Jewish inhabitants were transported aboard the Holocaust train to the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest ghetto in all of German-occupied Europe, with over 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of 1.3sqmi (meaning that every person had less than an area 9 feet by 10 feet in which to sleep, eat and walk around the ghetto), or 7.2 persons per room.[9] By the time Poland was liberated from German occupation, not a single Jewish ghetto remained.[10] [11] [12]
Błonie railway station, opened in 1902 on the Warsaw–Kalisz Railway, is served by Koleje Mazowieckie, who run services between Kutno and Warszawa Wschodnia.
The local football club is . It competes in the lower leagues.
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland.
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