Lublin (Voivodeship) - Lublin (Woiwodschaft)

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Lublin (Voivodeship)
CapitalLublin
Residents
2.151.836 (2014)
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25,114 km²
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Map of Lublin (Voivodeship)

The voivodeship Lublin(Polish: województwo lubelskie) lies in the east Poland with the capital in Lublin. Apart from the capital, there are no other large cities. The voivodeship borders the voivodeship in the south Subcarpathian, in the west Holy Cross, in the east to the Ukraine and Belarus, as well as in the north Mazovia and Podlaskie. The name goes back to the largest city in the region. The voivodeship is in the south by rolling hills with very fertile loess soils, that Roztocze, to the west by the Lesser PolandVistula breakthrough, to the east through the valley of the Bugwho have favourited swampy landscape Polesia and the Łęczna-Włodawa Lake District as well as in the north through the dense forests of the Łuków Heath embossed.

Numerous Renaissance cities testify to the wealth of the Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic in the early modern period, e.g. Kazimierz Dolny, Zamość, Lublin. Here, through the mixing of Italian and Eastern influences, a special art and architectural style developed in the 16th century, the Lublin Renaissance. There are numerous traces of Jewish culture. Castles and castle ruins are in Puławy, Kozłówka, Lublin, Kazimierz Dolny and Janowiec. The landscape of the Polesie National Park and des Roztocze National Park invites you to take long hikes while the Tanew is the most popular kayak river in the region with its numerous rapids. The region, especially that Roztocze, is often called the Polish Tuscany designated.

Regions

Roztocze
Bukowa Góra

The historical region Lubliner country originated in the Middle Ages from the eastern part of the Sanomirer country and, like this one, belongs historically Lesser Poland. The Lublin country however, only occupies part of the voivodeship and is also outside of it, so it is not congruent with it.

The center of the voivodeship does the historical Lublin country out. Parts of the historical region also belong to the northwest Łuków-Country to that, which also belong to the historical Lesser Poland. The regions also belonged to Lesser Poland Stężyca-Country and Sandomirer country, whose parts that belong to the voivodeship to the Vistula lie. In the east, the voivodeship has a share in the Red Rus in the southeast and Polesia in the northeast, both on Bug lie. After all, the voivodeship in the far north has a share in the historical south Podlaskie.

Geographically, the region can be divided into four parts. In the north are the South Podlachian Plain, which is partly with the Łuków Heath are overgrown. To the east of it are the swamps of the west Polesie and the Volhynian Polesie, up to Bug pass. This in turn is followed by the south Lublin plateau and the Volyn plateau at. In the very south lies the hill country of the Roztocze and in the southwest direction San a small part of the Sandomirer Basin.

  • The southern one Podlaskie is characterized by forests, rivers and late baroque and classicist palaces.
  • Polesie is a sparsely populated swamp and lake landscape that continues along the Belarusian-Ukrainian border to Russia.
  • The Red Rus is an old cultural landscape with fertile soils and old castles. The area is also called Rotburgenland and is located in the south and east in the Subcarpathian and the Ukraine away.
  • The Lesser Poland plateau forms the center around Lublin. In the west the Vistula breaks picturesque through the plateau. The most beautiful buildings of the Lublin Renaissance are located here.
  • The Roztocze is the most scenic region of the voivodeship, which also has a lot to offer architecturally.

places

Radzyń Podlaski
Dęblin
Puławy
Kazimierz Dolny
Kozłówka
Lublin
Chełm
Zamość
Krasnystaw

Podlaskie

  • 1 TerespolWebsite of this institutionTerespol in the Wikipedia encyclopediaTerespol in the Wikimedia Commons media directoryTerespol (Q218897) in the Wikidata database
  • 2 Biała PodlaskaWebsite of this institutionBiała Podlaska in the Wikipedia encyclopediaBiała Podlaska in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsBiała Podlaska (Q209932) in the Wikidata database
  • 3 Międzyrzec PodlaskiWebsite of this institutionMiędzyrzec Podlaski in the Wikipedia encyclopediaMiędzyrzec Podlaski in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsMiędzyrzec Podlaski (Q34267) in the Wikidata database
  • 4 Radzyń PodlaskiWebsite of this institutionRadzyń Podlaski in the Wikipedia encyclopediaRadzyń Podlaski in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsRadzyń Podlaski (Q983866) in the Wikidata database

Mazovia

Vistula breakthrough

Lesser Poland

Polesia

Tail Rus

Roztocze

Other goals

Janów Heath

The voivodeship has a share in three large forest areas:

National parks

Polesie National Park

There are two national parks in the voivodeship:

Kayak and houseboat trails

Vistula at Kazimierz Dolny
Wieprz in Krasnobród

Lakes

Zemborzyce reservoir at Lublin

background

The Lublin Voivodeship consists mainly of the area of ​​the historical Lesser Poland, but also has areas Mazovia, Polesia and Volhynia. For a long time the area was the heartland of the Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic. In Lublin the new union between Poland and Lithuania was concluded in 1569. The Supreme Court of the Republic met here. The region is shaped by the Lublin Renaissance. Poles, Jews, Armenians, Ukrainians, Scots, Germans and Roma lived in the area around Lublin. This is where the trade route ran from the Polish Ukraine, which was considered Europe's breadbasket in the Middle Ages and early modern times Vistula and on over Danzig to Western Europe. Kazimierz Dolny had several hundred Renaissance granaries during this time and was second in Poland after Danzig. In the middle of the 17th century, the area around Lublin was sacked first by the Cossacks and then by the Swedes. At the transition from the 17th to the 18th century, the Polish-Lithuanian magnates discovered the area and had magnificent castles and palaces built here in Baroque, Rococo and Classicism styles with baroque or romantic parks.

In 1795 the area came to Austria in the course of the Third Partition of Poland and became part of Galicia-Lodomeria. During the Napoleonic period it belonged to the Grand Duchy Warsaw and after the Congress of Vienna as Congress Poland on Russia. After the First World War she became Polish again.

The region was particularly hard hit by the Second World War. There were three death camps in Majdanek, Sobibor and Belzec. The Jews, Sinti and Roma and the Zamość children were there and in Auschwitz murdered while German settlers from the Baltic states and Bessarabia should be settled here, inter alia. the parents of the former German President Horst Köhler, who was born south of Lublin. In 1999 the Lublin Voivodeship was established from several smaller voivodeships. There is hardly any industry in the area and nature is still largely intact here, as it is rarely anywhere else in Europe.

language

Polish is the official and colloquial language. Polish is spoken with the Lesser Poland dialect. For many Poles outside the region, the local dialects sound like singing. In the Lublin Voivodeship, the foreign language skills of the population are good. Almost all of the younger residents speak very good or good English. And finally, Polish is not as difficult to learn as you might think at first.

getting there

Lublin Airport
Lublin Central Railway Station

We recommend arriving by plane, car, bus or train.

By plane

You can travel by plane from Germany, Austria and Switzerland 1 Świdnik AirportWebsite of this institutionŚwidnik Airport in the Wikipedia encyclopediaŚwidnik Airport in the Wikimedia Commons media directoryŚwidnik Airport (Q620446) in the Wikidata database(IATA: LUZ) at Lublin approach. There are two other international airports in the vicinity Warsaw, a third at Rzeszów.

road

The road conditions and the rail network are mediocre. The journey is recommended from Warsaw via the S17 expressway.

By train

The rail network is also mediocre. The journey is recommended from Warsaw to Lublin. There are also historic narrow-gauge railways that take tourists through the region's countryside.

By boat

With the excursion boat you can go over the Vistula arrive. On the Bug Excursion boats also operate.

mobility

The center of the voivodeship is Lublin, from where all important places are easily accessible by car, train or bus. Fares are low. Petrol is also quite cheap within Poland.

Tourist Attractions

  • Lublin is an old multicultural city. The highest court of the Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic has sat here since the 16th century. The city is shaped by the Polish Renaissance.
  • Kazimierz Dolny is one of the most beautiful small towns in Central Europe.
  • The huge castle ruins in Janowiec including their parks should not be missing on a visit.
  • Zamość is on the UNESCO World Cultural List and is considered one of the most beautiful Renaissance cities in Europe.
  • Puławy has a beautiful classical palace with a romantic garden. There is the Sybil temple, which housed the first Polish public museum at the end of the 18th century - with works by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn and Rafaelo Santi, among others. The Czartoryski Museum is now in Krakow.
  • Włodawa has one of the best preserved synagogues in Poland and rich sacred baroque architecture.
  • Chełm is a baroque city on the border with Ukraine.
  • In Kozłówka there is a beautiful renaissance castle.
  • The 4 UFO memorialEmilcin with a curious character about 5 km west of the village Opole Lubelskie.

  • Lublin Castle

  • Roofs by Kazimierz Dolny

  • Market square in Zamość

  • Puławy Castle

activities

Kayaks on the Świder
  • Ride on one of the historic narrow-gauge railways
  • Hiking in Roztocze or Polesie
  • Horseback riding in the Roztocze or in the woods
  • Water sports on the lake district
  • Canoe or kayak on the rivers
  • Feast in Kazimierz Dolny with regional products and wine
  • Gliding at Świdnik
  • Cycling along the Vistula or that Bug
  • Houseboat / house raft on the Vistula

kitchen

Zwierzyniec beer

The regional cuisine corresponds to the home-style Polish cuisine. For this see the corresponding section in the article Poland. These are regional beer brands Zwierzyniec from the city ​​of the same name and the Perła out Lublin. Typical for Kazimierz Dolny is the rooster pastry.

nightlife

In the university town Lublin there are many bars, discos, pubs and restaurants. There are quaint pubs and restaurants in Kazimierz Dolny, Chełm and Zamość.

security

It is actually quite safe, but it should be used in large crowds e.g. B. in large markets or train stations - as everywhere in the world - do not neglect the necessary care.

climate

The climate is a transitional climate from temperate to continental. The summers are generally warm to hot with mean temperatures between 16 ° C and 21 ° C and the winters are cold, with mean temperatures around -5 ° C. Precipitation falls mainly in spring and autumn.

literature

See article too Poland.

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