Pajęczno
Pajęczno
Place in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
Pajęczno [paˈjɛnt͡ʂnɔ] is a town in Poland, in Łódź Voivodeship, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Częstochowa. It is the capital of Pajęczno County. Its population is 6,651 (2020).[1] It is located in the Sieradz Land.
Pajęczno | |
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View of the city | |
| Coordinates: 51°9′N 19°0′E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Łódź |
| County | Pajęczno |
| Gmina | Pajęczno |
| First mentioned | 1140 |
| Town rights | 1276 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Piotr Mielczarek |
| Area | |
| • Total | 20.21 km2 (7.80 sq mi) |
| Population (31 December 2020) | |
| • Total | 6,651  [1] |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 98-330 |
| Vehicle registration | EPJ |
| Website | http://www.pajeczno.pl/ |
First mentioned in historical sources from 1140, when it was part of Piast-ruled Poland. It had town rights between 1276 and 1870, and again from 1958. It was a royal town of Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Radomsko County in the Sieradz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.[4]
A Jewish community had been residents of Pajęczno since the late 1700s and numbered about 700 at the beginning of World War II. When the Germans occupied the town in September 1939, they unleashed a violent attack against the Jewish community, beginning with murder and abuse, then stripping Jews of most of their property, and in 1941, confining them to an overcrowded ghetto. After that, Jews were expelled to forced labour camps and then in August 1942, many were murdered in the town and most of the rest were sent to the Chełmno extermination camp where they were immediately gassed. In 1942, the Germans also expelled 312 Poles, who were deported to a transit camp in nearby Wieluń and then to forced labour in Germany and German-occupied France.[5] The last few dozen Jews were sent to the Lodz ghetto. Very few Pajęczno Jews survived the war.[6]
On 14 June 2019 an intoxicated man drove through the town in a T-55 tank and was arrested shortly after.[7]
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- Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (in Polish). Vol. II. Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1925. p. 89.
- Stan i struktura ludności oraz ruch naturalny w przekroju terytorialnym w 2010 r. (PDF) (in Polish). Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 2011. p. 63. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011.
- Atlas historyczny Polski. Województwo sieradzkie i województwo łęczyckie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1998. p. 4.
- Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 336. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
- Megargee, Geoffrey (2012). Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Vol. II. Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7.
- Harry Cockburn (20 June 2019). "Drunk man faces eight years in prison for invading Polish town in Russian tank". Independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
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