Ciechanów
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| Ciechanów | |||
| The castle of the Masovian Dukes | |||
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| Country | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship | Masovian | ||
| Powiat | Ciechanów County | ||
| Gmina | Ciechanów | ||
| Estabilished | 11th century | ||
| City Rights | 1266 | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Waldemar Wardziński | ||
| Area | |||
| - Total | 32.51 km² (12.6 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 150 m (492 ft) | ||
| Population (2005) | |||
| - Total | 46,112 | ||
| - Density | 1,418.4/km² (3,673.6/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 06-400 to 06-413 | ||
| Area code(s) | +48 023 | ||
| Car Plates | WCI | ||
| Website: www.um.ciechanow.pl | |||
For other places with the same name, see Ciechanów (disambiguation).
Ciechanów ([tɕe'xanuv] ) is a town in north-central Poland with 47,900 inhabitants (2002). It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999) and was previously the capital of Ciechanow Voivodeship (1975-1998).
Before World War II, it was home to a large Jewish community. During the war many Polish Jews and resistance fighters were executed by the Germans in the castle. The town was annexed by Nazi Germanyin 1939 and known as Zichenau in German. It was the capital of Regierungsbezirk Zichenau, a subdivision of the Province of East Prussia. The territory was restored to Poland after the war.
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[edit] Monuments
- Ruins of 14th century castle
- Augustinian monastery - Late Gothic church of Visitation of Virgin Mary (1st quarter of 16th century) and cloister from the turn of 17th and 18th century
- Late Gothic church of the Birth of Virgin Mary (1st quarter of 16th century)
- Gothic-revival town hall from 1844 (probably by Henryk Marconi)
[edit] Education
- Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa
- Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu i Zarządzania
[edit] Famous people
- Doda
- Mieczysław Jagielski
- Maria Konopnicka
- Rafał Kownacki
- Zygmunt Krasiński
- Ignacy Mościcki
- Roza Robota
- Zbigniew Siemiątkowski
- Aleksander Świętochowski
- Stefan Żeromski
[edit] References
[edit] External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
Ciechanów
- Official homepage
- Architecture of Ciechanow (only in Polish)
- Czas Ciechanowa (Local weekly magazine, local press)
- Discussion forum of city Ciechanów
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