| Ozorków | |
 John Paul II Square in Ozorków | |
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| Country | Poland |
| Region | Łódź voivodeship |
| Surface | 15.46 km² |
| Height | 130 to 155 m above sea level m.a.s.l. |
| Population | 20 407 |
| Area code | ( 48) 42 |
| Postal Code | 95-035 and 95-036 |
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Ozorków - city in Poland, in voivodeship of Lodz, in you will say Zgierz, by the river Bzura. 20 km south is located Łódź.
Characteristic
Geographical location: 51 ° 57′30 ″ N 19 ° 17′17 ″ E
In the years 1975–1998, the city administratively belonged to the then Łódź Province.
The city covers the area of 1546 ha, or 15.46 km², and it is 1.81% of the district's area. 53% of the city's area is occupied by arable lands, 17% by residential areas, 8% by forests and green areas.
In 1415, the first (and for several centuries the only) mention of a small village among hard-to-reach forests and swamps, belonging to the Szczawiński family, appeared. In 1807, the then owner of Ozorków, Ignacy Starzyńskiwanting to revive his goods economically, he brought from Saxony textiles: 19 cloth makers and dyers. In 1815, the population increased to 117 people, then Łódź had 331.
In 1816, Ozorków was granted municipal rights as a private town, which allowed it to accelerate its development. In 1821, the Schlösser family, who had come from Aachenwho set up a large modern wool mill first, and then a cotton mill. In this way, Ozorków initiated the development of the textile industry over the upper one Bzuraregardless of development Zgierz and Łódź, creating z Aleksandrow Łódzki and Konstantynów Łódzki the largest center of the textile industry in Poland.
At the beginning of the 1920s, Ozorków received a railway connection with Łódź and Kutno, and with the electrification of the city carried out in 1928, it received electric tram communication with Zgierz and Łódź (in the years 1922-1928 the tram cars were pulled by a steam locomotive, then the tram was electrified).
In the interwar period, municipal facilities were added to the town, such as the Kasa Chorych building, 2 primary schools, a bathing facility and a summer camp for children in the municipal forest.
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Ozorków is situated on the railway line connecting Kutno with Łódź.
By car
South of the city there is the A2 motorway, access to it is possible through the Emilia junction. The national road 91 (connecting Gdansk, Toruń, Łódź, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Radomsko and Częstochowa).
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Worth seeing
- Schlösser Palace, at ul. Łęczycka 7, half of the 19th century,
- Schlösser Palace, at ul. Listopadowa 6 b, end of the 19th century,
- parish church st. Józefa, ul. Jana Pawła II 1/3, 1668, 1885, 1935, reg.No .: A / 499 of August 4, 1967
- Evangelical church, ul. Zgierska 2, 1842, reg.No .: A / 535 of August 11, 1967
- belfry, reg.No .: A / 536 of August 11, 1967
- presbytery, ul. Zgierska 9, 1842, reg.No .: A / 537 of August 11, 1967
- former cotton hoth, ul. Listopadowa 6, end of the 19th century, reg.No .: A / 501 of August 4, 1968
- Scheibler Manor, ul. Wigury 14, 2nd half of the Nineteenth century, reg.No .: A / 503 of August 4, 1967
- numerous 19th-century houses at pl. Jana Pawła II, ul. Listopadowa, ul. Wyszyńskiego and the house at ul. Kościuszki 29 from the end of the 19th century,
- spatial communication system of the narrow-gauge railway - Krosniewice Commuter Railway
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