| Mszczonów | |||||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Poland | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Name1: | Masovian | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Type2: | County | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Name2: | Żyrardów | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Name3: | Mszczonów | ||||||||||
| Leader Title: | Mayor | ||||||||||
| Leader Name: | Józef Grzegorz Kurek | ||||||||||
| Established Title: | First mentioned | ||||||||||
| Established Date: | 1245 | ||||||||||
| Established Title3: | Town rights | ||||||||||
| Established Date3: | 1377 | ||||||||||
| Area Total Km2: | 8.56 | ||||||||||
| Population As Of: | 2006 | ||||||||||
| Population Total: | 6231 | ||||||||||
| Population Density Km2: | auto | ||||||||||
| Timezone: | CET | ||||||||||
| Utc Offset: | +1 | ||||||||||
| Timezone Dst: | CEST | ||||||||||
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 51.9742°N 20.5267°W | ||||||||||
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code | ||||||||||
| Postal Code: | 96-320 | ||||||||||
| Area Code: | +48 46 | ||||||||||
| Blank Name: | Car plates | ||||||||||
| Blank Info: | WZY | ||||||||||
| Blank Name Sec2: | Highways | ||||||||||
| Blank1 Name Sec2: | National roads | ||||||||||
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Mszczonów (Yiddish: אַמשינאָוו Amshinov) is a town in Żyrardów County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 6,231 inhabitants as of the 2006 census. It is situated just outside the Warsaw metropolitan area, approximately 45 km from Warsaw city centre.
The oldest known mention of Mszczonów comes from a document of Duke Konrad I of Masovia from 1245, when it was part of fragmented Piast-ruled Poland. Mszczonów was granted town rights in 1377 or earlier. It was a royal town of Poland, administratively located in the Rawa Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. 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.[1]
The town possessed a vibrant Jewish community, and it was once the center of the Hasidic Amshinov dynasty (Mszczonów being pronounced as "Amshinov" in Yiddish.)
During the invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was invaded by Nazi Germany. On September 8, 1939, German troops murdered 11 Polish prisoners of war in the town,[2] and on September 11, 1939, the Germans carried out a mass execution of 20 local Poles, including mayor Aleksander Tański, two priests and a doctor (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[3] At least five Poles from Mszczonów were murdered by the Russians in the large Katyn massacre in 1940.[4]
Deepspot, the second deepest swimming pool in the world, is located in the town.
The local football team is KS Mszczonowianka.[5] It competes in the lower leagues.