Wyszków

Wyszków
Palace from 1780

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Wyszków
Coordinates: 52°35′36″N 21°27′36″E / 52.59333°N 21.46000°E / 52.59333; 21.46000
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Masovian
County Wyszków County
Gmina Gmina Wyszków
Established 13th century
Town rights 1502
Government
 • Mayor Grzegorz Nowosielski
Area
 • Total 2,000.78 km2 (772.51 sq mi)
Population (2018)
 • Total 26,500
 • Density 13/km2 (34/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code 07-200, 07-202
Area code(s) +48 029
Car plates WWY
Website http://www.wyszkow.pl

Wyszków ([ˈvɨʂkuf]; Yiddish: ווישקאָוו‎ Vishkov) is a city in Poland with 26,500 inhabitants (2018). It is the capital of Wyszków County (Polish: powiat wyszkowski). Wyszków is in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in the Warsaw Voivodeship (until 1975) and the Ostrołęka Voivodeship (1975–1998). Unofficial name is 'Wyszków Miasto Opryszków'.

Description

The village of Wyszków was first documented in 1203. The town was founded in 1502. It was destroyed during the Second Northern War in 1655-1660, when it lost its significance in the region. Industry developed after 1897, when the Pilawa-Tluszcz-Ostrołęka railway was built..

Jews in Wyszków

Before World War II half of Wyszków's population of 9,000 were Jewish; after the war there were none. On 14 September 1997 a memorial to Holocaust victims was unveiled in Wyszków. It is made of reclaimed Jewish gravestones that had been removed from the site in 1939 by German forces, who used them as paving stones and to build the local Gestapo headquarters. Scores of these desecrated tombstones were recovered and incorporated as part of the monument.

Wyszków was the birthplace of Mordechaj Anielewicz in 1919.

Notable people from Wyszków

Monument to Mordechaj Anielewicz in Wyszków

International relations

Twin towns — sister cities

Wyszków is twinned with:

References

  1. ↑ "Välissuhted" (in Estonian). Kohtla-Järve linn. Retrieved 1 March 2012.

Coordinates: 52°35′36″N 21°27′36″E / 52.59333°N 21.46000°E / 52.59333; 21.46000


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