Grace County - Powiat łaski

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Country	Poland
Region	Łódź voivodeship
Surface	618.23 km² (3.39% of the voivodeship area) km²
Population	about 51 thousand 82 people / km²
Postal Code	98-100
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Grace County lies in voivodeship of Lodz. Graces is the seat of the poviat authorities.

General information

The poviat of grace within its present borders was created as a result of an administrative reform in 1999.

Geography

It is located in the central part of the Łódź Province, south-west of Lodz within the Łódź agglomeration. It is entirely located on the South Wielkopolska Lowland, the northern and central part on the Łaska Upland, and the southern part in the Szczercowska Valley.
The whole district is situated in the basin Worth it, the main river is the Grabia, flowing into Widawka. Rivers dominate the landscape. Grabia cuts into glacial sediments of the ground moraine, while Widawka, Grabia, Nieciecz and Warta form in the area Widawy and Burzenin, a specific hydrographic junction.
The culmination in the area is formed by dune hills and post-glacial kemes. The river valleys are accompanied by numerous peat bogs and swamps. The southern part of the county is within Miedzyrzecz Warta and Widawka Landscape Park.Area: 1025 km², inhabited by 50,800 inhabitants. Urbanization 36.65%. The poviat has an industrial and agricultural character, forests cover 25% of the area. The poviat consists of one city and 4 rural communes.

fauna and Flora

25% of the poviat's area is covered by forests, pine forests dominate, in many places there are riparian forests, oak forests, birches and here and there alder and fragments of oak-hornbeam forests. In order to protect the natural environment resources, various forms of nature protection have been established - in the poviat there are protected landscape areas: "," Chrząstawsko-Widawski "and nature and landscape complexes:" Grabi River Valley "and" Sędziejowice Forestry "As a result, a third of the poviat's area is protected.

History

The oldest mention of Łask comes from 1356. The town rights were granted by Władysław II Jagiełło in 1422. The town was the seat of Łask, belonging to the mighty Łaski family. Its most prominent representatives were: Jan Łaski (died 1531), the crown chancellor, and then the archbishop of Gniezno, codifier of rights, initiator of writing down the salaries of the archbishopric of Gniezno, and his nephew, also Jan (died 1569), an outstanding representative of the Reformation movement. Łask was then one of the richest cities in Poland. However, the fires caused it to decline and only 2 men were sent to the war of 1459.
In 1867, the city became the seat of the poviat.
Insurgent troops were active in the area in the January Uprising. In 1905, demands were made to introduce the Polish language to schools. In September 1939, many soldiers were killed in the fights with the German invaders in the district. In many places there are war quarters and graves in cemeteries.

Economy

The military airport located in the Łask poviat is a stationing place for multi-role military F-16 aircraft, as well as for training pilots.

Drive

By car

The road network makes Łask an important road communication junction, because national roads run through it:

national road No. 12 (Poland): Łęknica – Leszno- Kalisz - Graces - Piotrkow Trybunalski – Dorohusk,
national road No. 14 (Poland): Łódź - Graces - Walichnowy – (Wroclaw).

In addition, the city is crossed by provincial roads:

voivodeship road No. 473: Łask - Wheel,
Voivodeship road No. 481: Łask - Wieluń,
Voivodeship road No. 483: Łask - Czestochowa.

By bus

Bus communication plays an important role. Lines in the city and its vicinity are mainly served by PKS Zdunska Wola, you can also find buses: PKS Łódź, PKS Sieradz, PKS Wieluń, PKS Kalisz, PKS Częstochowa and other carriers (including private ones).

By rail

The area of the poviat is crossed by the railway line from Warsaw to Wrocław and the Śląsk - Ports railway main. It is possible to travel by train from Łask to Sieradz, Łódź, Zduńska Wola, Kalisz, Poznań, Warsaw, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Wrocław and Szczecin.

By plane

The airport in Łask is a military airport and sometimes a cargo airport.

Regions

Grace County

The poviat consists of the following communes:

urban-rural commune: Łask
rural communes: Buczek, Sędziejowice, Widawa, Wodzierady

Interesting places

About 16 km from Łask it is situated Zelowassociated with the settlement of weavers-cottage workers, descendants of supporters of Jan Hus, who came here from Silesia and the Czech Republic during the period of religious persecution. The settlers were organized in the commune of the Czech brothers with their own church and school. Today there is a girl band called "Zelowskie bells", which plays various melodies on bells, not only church ones.Widawa, once a town, a village since 1870, it lies on the slope of a plateau rising between the valleys of the Warta and Widawka valleys, on the Nieciecz River, 21 km south-west of Łask. From the earliest times, communication routes crossed in Widawa, which favored the development of trade and attracted settlers. After Sieradz and Warta, Widawa was the most important city (city rights from 1388 granted by Władysław II Jagiełło) of the Sieradz Land. Much glory was brought to the city by the school, which dates back to the 15th century, and in the 16th century it was elevated to the rank of an academic colony of the Jagiellonian University, it was called the Widawa Academy.