Szadek - Szadek

Szadek
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Country	Poland
Region	Łódź voivodeship
Surface	17.93 km²
Population	about 2,100
Area code	43
Postal Code	98-240
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Szadek is a city located in voivodeship of Lodz, in the northern part of the Zduńska Wola district. It is situated in the Sieradzka Basin, on the slightly undulating Łaska Upland, on the Pichna River. The relief of the city is characterized by a slight south-east climb.

Drive

Szadek is located about 10 km north of Zduńska WolaProvincial roads intersect in the city no.710 With Lodz down Błaszek and the way no 473 With Grace down Wheels.

Public collective transport

The market square in Szadek

Due to the small area and small population, there is no public transport in the city. There is a train station in the city, but it is situated on the coal main and does not support passenger connections. There are bus stops with buses stopping at the Town Square Bus station plying to nearby towns.

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Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

• Church of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. James the Apostle - built in the years 1332-1335 (consecrated in 1335 by the Archbishop of Gniezno, Janisław), restored and rebuilt in the 15th century. It is the most valuable monument of Gothic art in the Sieradz region and one of the best-preserved - both in terms of architecture and rich interior fittings - sacred buildings from that era in the area of Greater Poland. The church is a three-nave, hall-type brick church with a Polish layout, supported by buttress buttresses. Inside the church, one of the most beautiful elements of decoration is the late-gothic wall polychrome from around 145 A.D., the work of John of Wrocław, preserved in fragments, on the central pillars and on the southern wall. In the presbytery, there are two richly decorated stained-glass windows from the end of the 19th century; four stained glass windows in the nave in the late Art Nouveau style, made in the interwar period.

• The market square and its buildings - a characteristic square with a rectangular shape with nice buildings. Lots of shops and venues, city center.

• Church of St. Giles - It is located in the cemetery of the same name, probably the first parish church was located there. According to tradition, it is older than the present parish church. There are many indications that it already existed in the 11th-12th centuries (according to the message, it may have been issued as a votive offering by Prince Władysław Herman for the happy birth of his son, Bolesław the Wrymouth); rebuilt several times. The currently existing brick building was erected in this place in the years 1858-1860 thanks to the efforts of the vicar, Fr. Teodor Majer. The red-brick church is built on a rectangular plan with a pentagonal apse, covered with a gable roof.

Shopping

Most shops and service outlets are located in the center - this is the area of ​​the Market Square and its immediate vicinity.

Gastronomy

Nearest neighborhood

• Jamno - a reserve (22.35 ha), located 6 km west of the town, established in 1959 in a forest forest Kobyla-Jamno in the Poddębicki Forest District. The subject of protection is the fir and oak stand. growing on the northern border of fir range in Poland. On the podzolic soils, a mixed coniferous forest and fir complex developed here. Fir constitutes about 50% of the stand. It is accompanied by its English oak, pine, spruce, aspen, warty birch and hornbeam in some places. The age of the fir stand is nearly 150) years. The trees reach dimensions of 30 m in height and 80 cm in diameter of the trunk. The undergrowth is dominated by coniferous species, incl. blueberry. The more interesting species: the common fern pear. starry and juniper club moss and mistletoe.

• Prusinowice - a park located 10 km north-west of Szadek, with two English oaks with a trunk circumference of 3.9 m - nature monuments.

• Wojsławice - a village located 8 km south-west of Szadek, known since 1311. In the village, a classicist mansion from the first half of the 19th century, a palace and the ruins of a brick manor from the beginning of the 16th century. There is a regional museum with ethnographic collections at the local Agricultural School Complex.

Accommodation

contact

Szadek Town and Commune Office, ul. Warszawska 3, 98-240 Szadek, tel. (043) 821 50 04