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| Country | Poland |
| Region | Łódź voivodeship |
| Surface | 9.62 km² |
| Population | 3244 |
| Area code | 48 46 |
| Postal Code | 96-230 |
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Biała Rawska - city in Poland, in voivodeship of Lodz, in Rawa County, headquarters of the urban-rural commune of Biała Rawska.
The city is located on Wysoczyzna Rawska, on the Białka River - a tributary Rawki, belonging to the basin Lunge.
According to data from the Central Statistical Office of Poland, on December 31, 2013, the city had 3,244 inhabitants.
Characteristic
Geographic location: 51 ° 48′27 ″ N 20 ° 28′19 ″ E
The streets in the city diverge from the market square in the center, near which there is a historic church. st. Wojciech. The buildings in the center are old, sometimes 19th-century multi- and single-family buildings, brick houses and wooden houses.
Biała Rawska is one of the oldest settlement centers in Mazovia, in the 12th century it was a castellan stronghold (acting as an administrative center) and an important trade center, however, in written sources it appears only in 1246, and the first preserved direct mention comes from August 24, 1295.
In the years 1975-1998, the city administratively belonged to the then Skierniewice Province.
Drive
At a distance of 8 km from Biała there is the national road No. 8: Warsaw – Katowice (the so-called Gierkówka).
By plane
The nearest airport is in Lodz in Lublinek, is served by the so-called low cost airlines. Port Lotniczy Łódź im. Władysław Reymont [1] (IATA: LCJ, ICAO: EPLL), tel. 48 42 688 84 14, [email protected]
By rail
The Central Railway Line (Railway Line No. 4), built in the years 1971-1977, runs through the city. Grodzisk Mazowiecki – Zawiercie. It is a railway line 223.8 km long, running through masovian district, Łódź voivodeship, Holy Cross province and Silesian Voivodeship. This line is part of the international transport corridor E 65.
There is also a historic end station in Biała Rawska Narrow-Gauge Railway Rogów - Rawa - Biała leading with Rogowa by Rawa Mazowiecka to Biała Rawska.
By car
The provincial road No. 725 runs through the city: Rawa Mazowiecka - Grójec.
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Worth seeing
- Palace complex and park:
- Palace - built in the first half of the 19th century in the Romanesque style with elements of neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance for the then owner of the city - Aleksander Leszczyński. The author of the palace design, resembling a medieval castle, was Franciszek Maria Lanci. The building was built of brick on a plan similar to the letter L. The main part - two-story, with a four-sided tower with a staircase, and two ground-floor wings. The western part of the building has a terrace, and the southern - a round turret. The whole is covered with a gable and hipped roof. It is topped with neo-Gothic battlements. After the war, the palace was nationalized. It housed, among others a pharmacy and a delivery room, a school and also apartments. Currently, it houses shops and a bar.
- Landscape park - around 30 grows in the landscape park surrounding the palace oaks (pedunculate and sessile), whose trunk circumference reaches up to 3.5 m. Apart from them, in the park there is an over 500-year-old oak with a trunk circumference of almost 7.5 m, the so-called "Napoleon's Oak" - one of the largest trees of this species growing in Poland, so named because, according to local stories, the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, returning from the war from Russia.
- Church of st. Wojciech - the historic parish church of st. Wojciech, originally from the beginning of the 16th century, rebuilt in the 18th / 19th century.
- Parish cemetery - In Biała there is a Roman Catholic parish cemetery from the 18th century, covered with old trees, mainly limes. nearby Babska - Okęcki. The Leszczyński family chapel is built in the classical style. Okęcki's graves date back to 1887 and are decorated with pediments almost 6 meters high and with wrought-iron gates. In the necropolis, there are also other, less impressive, but also historic tombstones, and a symbolic grave of World War II victims.
- Shrine - At the junction of the roads leading towards Mszczonowa and Grójec there is a historic, brick chapel from 1916 with a figure of Christ. From the bas-relief on it, it is colloquially called "Saint Mark".
- City center - The layout of streets and squares in the city center has retained its historical character; It dates back to the 16th century. In this area there are 19th-century post-Jewish residential houses - brick and wooden, among them - the fire brigade building, once the seat of the synagogue.
- Synagogue - In the city center, at Plac Wolności, there is a former synagogue, which stands on the site of the first wooden synagogue from 1822. After a fire in 1842, a new brick building was built in its place in 1845-1847. It also burnt down, set on fire by the Germans in 1939. Rebuilt after the war, in the 1950s, it currently serves as a fire station. More information about this synagogue can be found on wikipedia on the website dedicated to it.
- Former Jewish Cemetery - Near the Białka River, there are remains of the former 18th-century Jewish cemetery. It was destroyed by the Germans during World War II and has never been rebuilt. The cemetery is now overgrown with bushes, only a dozen or so remains of matzevot have survived, including only 2 undamaged, with legible inscriptions in Hebrew. In the cemetery there is an ohel built today in honor of the local tzaddik.
- Narrow-gauge railway station - The last station of the historic building is located in Biała Rawska Rogowska Narrow Gauge Railway, built in 1915 by the Germans during World War I for the needs of the eastern front line running near Biała Rawska. Currently running periodically on the route Rogów - The Biała Rawska railway is a local tourist attraction.
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Tourist information
- Interesting is the historic linden alley east of the Warsaw - Katowice road leading to the parish church of St. Babsko.
- In addition, it is nearby Babsk nature reserve with an area of over 10 ha, existing since 1958. It is located in the Babsk forest complex. It is located approx. 1.5 km west of the village center and can be reached via a path down the river along its course. The most convenient entrance is at the forester's lodge.
The reserve was established in order to preserve, for scientific and didactic reasons, a fragment of a deciduous forest with an admixture of small-leaved lime, aged 80-170 years, of natural origin constituting the only stand of this type in this part of the voivodeship (in the 1950s, small-leaved lime in the central forests Poland was an uncommon tree). That is why the stands with old linden trees were very valuable natural objects. In the "Babsk" reserve, the protection of the lush multi-layered deciduous lime-oak forest with an admixture of Scots pine, silver birch and hornbeam. The vegetation of the reserve is a lime-hornbeam-oak forest, i.e. a subcontinental oak-hornbeam forest. is at an altitude of 140 m above sea level. The terrain is flat, only in the north-western part the terrain descends quite steeply towards the stream flowing here. About 50% of the stand is taken by English oak, about 20% is small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata), the rest hornbeam and Scots pine The undergrowth is dominated by tree seedlings and green vegetation.
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