Radzanów, Mława County Explained

Radzanów
Settlement Type:Village
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:Masovian
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Mława
Subdivision Type3:Gmina
Subdivision Name3:Radzanów
Coordinates:52.9333°N 25°W
Pushpin Map:Poland
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Population Total:930
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Registration Plate:WML

Radzanów is a village in Mława County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland, approximately 28km (17miles) south-west of Mława and 1010NaN0 north-west of Warsaw.[1] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Radzanów.[2]

The village lies on the Wkra river. It has a population of 930, with the population of the surrounding gmina exceeding 4,000 inhabitants.[3]

History

In the 13th century Radzanów was a residence of the Radzanowski noble family, which expired in 1630. They bore the Prawdzic coat of arms. The settlement received town privileges based on Chełmno rights in 1400 from Mazovian Prince Siemowit IV.[4] It legally held a weekly market and an annual fair. A castle built on the bank of Wkra river during the period was completely destroyed during the Swedish invasion in the 17th century.

Following the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, the town was annexed by Prussia. In 1807 it passed to the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw. After the duchy's dissolution in 1815, it passed to the Russian Partition of Poland. It was stripped of its town rights in 1869 by the Tsarist administration as punishment for the unsuccessful Polish January Uprising.[5]

Around 1380 a parish was established in Radzanów that erected its first church, mentioned in 1439. The church was destroyed in around 1590, rebuilt in around 1598 and survived until the early 18th century. A second church was built in 1734. However, it was not until 1870 that the first brick-and-mortar church was erected in Radzanów.

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in 1939, it was occupied by Germany until 1945.

Jewish community

Jews began to settle in Radzanów (yi|ראדזאנוב) in considerable numbers around the second half of the 18th century[6] [7] as a result of a privilege issued by the town's owner Dorota Niszczycka, the Chamberlain of Płock from the Karczewski clan.[8] She allocated to the Jewish Kehilla two streets and a plot of her land for a Jewish cemetery and a synagogue, as well as the right to trade in all goods and the production of alcohol.[9] The cemetery, which was established in 1765 near the Wkra river (7,500 sq m in size), was levelled by the German occupiers in World War II and all the tombstones were removed.[10] [11] The synagogue houses the town's public library.[12] [13]

In 1857, there were 571 Jews out of the total population of 1,040 people.[14] By 1865, Jews accounted for 45 percent of the town's inhabitants. In the second half of the 19th century the Kehilla built a brick synagogue designed by S. Kmita with Moorish-style motifs, in place of the original wooden one. The Jewish community (population 532 by 1900)[15] was completely destroyed in the Holocaust, with about 200 of its members deported in January 1942 to the ghetto in Mława, and from there to Treblinka and Auschwitz death camps in November 1942.[16] Today there are no Jews in Radzanów.[17] The synagogue was entered into the national register of historic monuments in 1975 and repaired in 1986.[18]

Economy

Radzanów and its county (with Bieżuń and Żuromin nearby) is one of the largest producers of poultry and eggs in the Mazovia. A waste treatment plant in the town called "Bacutil" services the northern part of the province, while the social infrastructure includes a medical clinic, post office, cultural centre and public library, as well as a number of stores and service stations. The water-supply pipes cover all of the gmina. The Era GSM cell-phone tower was erected in 2001.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tobias. Michael. JewishGen Resource Mapping (52.9333N 20.1000E). JewishGen. 28 September 2015. 21 October 2013.
  2. Web site: TERYT (Krajowego Rejestru Urzędowego Podziału Terytorialnego Kraju=National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal). Główny Urząd Statystyczny=Central Statistical Office of Poland. 1 June 2008. pl.
  3. Web site: Gmina Radzanów. Starostwo Powiatowe w Mławie=District of Mława. 2012. 26 August 2012.
  4. Book: . Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom IX. 1888. pl. Warszawa. 460.
  5. Web site: O gminie=About the municipality. Radzanów.com - Historia. 2012. 26 August 2012. pl.
  6. Web site: Town Information - Radzanow. JRI-Poland. 28 September 2015.
  7. Web site: Radzanow Surnames 1828 - 1903. JRI-Poland. 28 September 2015.
  8. Web site: Dorota Niszczycka, podkomorzanka Płocka. Kokorzycki.com. Niesiecki K., Herbarz Polski, t. V, 1839; ANEKS 1, opisy heraldyczne. 26 August 2012. 126. pl.
  9. Web site: Yizkor Books: Radzanow. New York Public Library - Dorot Jewish Division. 28 September 2015. 1960.
  10. Book: Gruber. Samuel. Myers. Phyllis. Survey of Historic Jewish Monuments in Poland. November 1995. U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. 28 September 2015. 46.
  11. Web site: Radzanów: Mazowieckie. International Jewish Cemetery Project - International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. 26 August 2012. 29 June 2009.
  12. Web site: Radzanów. Virtual Shtetl - POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. 28 September 2015.
  13. Web site: Cemetery in Radzanów (Mlawska Street). Virtual Shtetl - POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. 28 September 2015.
  14. Book: Wein. Abraham. Pinkas Hakehillot: Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities, Poland, Vol. IV: Warsaw and Its Region=Pinkas hakehillot Polin: entsiklopedyah shel ha-yishuvim ha-Yehudiyim le-min hivasdam ve-'ad le-ahar Sho'at Milhemet ha-'olam ha-sheniyah. 1989. Yad Vashem. Jerusalem. 978-9-653-08007-2. 38170782. 417–418. 28 September 2015. Hebrew.
  15. Web site: JewishGen Locality Page - Radzanów, Poland. JewishGen. 28 September 2015.
  16. Book: Miron. Gai. Shulhani. Shlomit. The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust. 2009. Yad Vashem. Jerusalem. 978-9-653-08345-5. 488. 747305671.
  17. The statistical data compiled on the basis of "Glossary of 2,077 Jewish towns in Poland" by Virtual Shtetl Museum of the History of the Polish Jews  , as well as "Getta Żydowskie," by Gedeon,   and "Ghetto List" by Michael Peters at www.deathcamps.org/occupation/ghettolist.htm  . Some figures might require further confirmation due to their comparative range. Accessed 21 June 2011.
  18. Web site: Synagogue in Radzanów (Piłsudskiego Street 5). Virtual Shtetl - POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. 26 August 2012.

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