Łaszczów | |
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Town | |
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  Łaszczów | |
| Coordinates:50°32′N23°44′E / 50.533°N 23.733°E /50.533; 23.733 | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Lublin |
| County | Tomaszów Lubelski |
| Gmina | Łaszczów |
| Population | |
• Total | 2,341 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | LTM |
| Website | Website |
Łaszczów is a town inTomaszów Lubelski County,Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.[1] It is the seat of theGmina (administrative district) calledGmina Łaszczów.
The town has a population of 2,341.
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The history of Łaszczów dates back to 1549, when KingSigismund II Augustus allowedPodkomorzy ofBełz andCastellan ofHorodło Aleksander Łaszcz to change his own village of Domaniz into a town of Prawda (named afterPrawdzic coat of arms). The royal bill was signed on December 22, 1549, atPiotrków Trybunalski.
The town of Prawda was founded next to the village. By the 1570s, its name was changed into Łaszczów (after the Łaszcz family). Łaszczów hadMagdeburg rights, and during theProtestant Reformation, became important center of thePolish Brethren. It had a prayer house and a printing shop, which operated until 1603. Łaszczów was a regional trade and business center, but its prosperity ended afterSwedish invasion of Poland (1655–1660).
In 1702, the town was burnt by Swedes, during theGreat Northern War, and in 1745, Józef Łaszcz, owner of Łaszczów, initiated construction of a church and Jesuit collegium. In 1754, Łaszczów burnt in a great fire, after which its owners ordered residents to build brick houses.
Following theThird Partition of Poland in 1795, Trawniki was annexed byAustria. After the Polish victory in theAustro-Polish War of 1809 it was regained by Poles and included within the short-livedDuchy of Warsaw. Following the duchy's dissolution in 1815, Łaszczów became part ofRussian-controlledCongress Poland. Town rights were revoked by the Tsarist administration in 1870 as part of anti-Polish repressions following the unsuccessful PolishJanuary Uprising. By 1902, its population grew to 2,600, with Jews in the majority. In 1914, duringWorld War I, heavy Russian – Austrian fighting took place in the area, and in 1915, Austrians built narrow gauge railroad fromUhnów toWłodzimierz Wołyński, via Łaszczów.
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During theInvasion of Poland by the Germans inWorld War II, Łaszczów saw Polish–German fighting. Afterwards it wasoccupied by Germany until 1944. It was the site of two massacres ofPoles, the first committed by Ukrainian nationalists on June 21, 1941, with 30 victims, and the second committed by the GermanGestapo and an ethnic UkrainianSS unit on December 25, 1942 with 75 victims.[2] The 1,500–2,500 Jews from the town were transported to theBelzec extermination camp on May 17, 1942.[3] In June 1944, Łaszczów was burnt by theUkrainian Insurgent Army.
Municipal rights were restored on 1 January 2010.
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