Poddębice - Poddębice

	Poddębice;
	Palace in Poddębice
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Country	Poland
Region	voivodeship of Lodz
Surface	5.89 km²
Population	7840
Area code	48 43
Postal Code	99-200
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Poddębice

Poddębice - city in Poland, in voivodeship of Lodz, in Poddębicki district, the seat of the municipal-rural commune of Poddębice, lying on Nerem. The seat of the poviat created as a result of the administrative reform of 1999. In the years 1975–1998 the town administratively belonged to the Sieradz Province.

Information

Geographic coordinates: 51 ° 54′N 18 ° 58′E

According to data from December 31, 2008, the city had 7,840 inhabitants.

The city lies in a chalk basin, which is bulged at this point. The shallow chalk stone in the area was used as a building material in the post-war years.

Drive

A kilometer from the city runs the railway line No. 131, the so-called carbon main, connecting Gdynia with Silesiawhere the Poddębice railway station is located.

The following roads intersect in Poddębice:

national road No. 72: Konin – Turkish – Uniejów – Łódź – Brzeziny – Rawa Mazowiecka
Voivodeship road No. 703: Porczyny - Poddębice - Stary Gostków - Leczyca – Friday – Lowicz

10 km north of the city, on the road to Łęczyca, there is a road junction Wartkowice with the exit to the A2 motorwayconnecting Poznan with Łódź and Warsaw.

Worth seeing

The first mention is from 1388, and the city rights from around 1400. In the 14th century, the town belonged to the Chebdów family of Wielkopolska. In 1518, the property was taken over by the Grudzińskis of the Grzymała coat of arms through marriage. At the beginning of the 18th century, from the Grudzińskis, through the Dunins, to Poddębice, they were taken over by Barbara Sanguszkowa. The last owners of these goods were the Zakrzewski family (from 1787 until World War II). After the outbreak of World War II in November 1939, the Germans incorporated the city into the German Reich, and by 1942 they had murdered the entire Jewish population, which constituted almost half of the population before the war. Soviet troops occupied the city on January 18, 1945.

The Renaissance palace was built in 1610 by Zygmunt Grudziński. His son, Stefan, added a loggia with a cross vault, and 100 years later Napoleon Zakrzewski added a transverse building on the north side, referring to the main body in style.

It is a two-story building with a gable roof, closed on two sides with decorative gables. A 17 m high tower adjoins the main building from the east. An octagonal chapel with a beautiful interior decoration was added to the west before 1690. The most interesting architectural element are the arcaded pillar cloisters built into the southern facade of the palace. The loggia, built around 1750, was rediscovered in 1952. Noteworthy is the loggia vault - cross with pseudo-ribs and decoration in the form of embossed pearls and ovaries with mascarons in keystones. On the southern wall, very interesting fragments of sgraffito decorations with figural motifs were discovered under the plaster. The palace was expanded in the 19th century. In the palace chapel, covered with fragments of 17th-century frescoes, the vault is rich in late-Renaissance stucco decorations, and the vault shows the coats of arms of the former owners: Pomian, Grzymała, Rola and Jastrzębiec. The regional chamber found a room there. The room houses a permanent exhibition showing the history of Poddębice and the surrounding area.

The 100th anniversary of Maria Konopnicka's arrival in Bronów was commemorated in 1962 by placing a boulder near the gate, under which a handful of soil from the Łyczakowski Cemetery in Lviv, where the poet was buried, and a plaque with the poet's poem was placed on the boulder:

In the fieldstone ...
Let the stonemason pluck a lire for me,
And let him not put an inscription on it,
Only in a nook where birch humming carries ....

The parish church of st. Catherine from 1610, founded by Barbara Grudzińska née Kraśnicka, a chamberlain from Łęczyca. Until the end of the 19th century, the church had one nave. In 1895, two side aisles, a choir and a treasury were added. The most valuable monuments of the temple include a gilded altar from the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries with sculptures of Saints Wojciech, Stanisław, Barbara and Katarzyna and a rococo inlaid pulpit with figures of 4 Evangelists and floral motifs. A series of sculptures and paintings from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries. Brick belfry from the 17th century.
On the outskirts of the city park, at ul. Adam Mickiewicz, there is an Evangelical church, built in 1871. It is a parish church.
By the road to Łódź, the parish Catholic cemetery was established in the mid-19th century. The grave of 56 insurgents from 1863 (35 N.N.) who died in the battles of Niewiesz, Poddębice and Dalikowo is noteworthy. In 1917, a monument was erected on the grave.
There are also Evangelical and Jewish cemeteries on Łódzka Street. The latter, destroyed by the Germans, is under the protection of Jews from Israel and America. The synagogue has also been preserved

Nature

The Ner River, in which there was a rich biological life until 1958, was a problem for the city because it was an industrial and sewage sewage system for Łódź and Pabianice. The situation was changed by the construction of GOŚ (Group Sewage Treatment Plant) in Łódź. The river is slowly clearing up, every year in early spring can be seen mute swans (cyngus olor).
Around the palace there is a park adjacent to Ner, an area of 3.6 ha, with monumental trees creating impressive clusters. In the north-west part of the park has a distinct overgrown slope scots pine with an admixture of a rare species black pine. Until recently, she was here too lime Tree with a trunk circumference of almost 6 m, a clump European larch, weeping varieties white willowsingle trees common ash and warty birch. An interesting part of the park is a high stone grotto with a magnificent one ash in the backyard.
Since 2007, the park together with the Ner Boulevard constitute the Poddębicki Nature and Landscape Complex.
It is located in the Poddębice commune reserve "Napoleons"

Culture

Poddębicki House of Culture and Sport
Municipal and Communal Public Library
Youth Center for European Education

Education

Primary School no. Polish airmen
gymnasium
High School for them. Maria Konopnicka
Complex of Upper Secondary Schools for them. John Paul II

Tourist routes

them. Maria Konopnicka here in Poddębice begins the blue marked hiking trail to them. Maria Konopnicka, 14 km long, leading to Bronow the town where Maria Konopnicka lived and which she described in her works.
Around the Poddębicka Region. The length of the bicycle route is 131.7 km (poviat), including in the Poddębice commune - 37.6 km. The trail starts in Poddębice and runs through Praga, Bałdrzychów and Busina. The second section will cross the villages of Góra Bałdrzychowska and Kałów.
Hot Springs. The length of the bicycle route is 136.5 km. It runs through Poddębice, Dalików, Pęczniew, Uniejów, Wartkowice, Dźim.