Wyszków

Wyszków
Church in Wyszków
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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	20.78 km2 (8.02 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Total	27,010
• Density	1,300/km2 (3,400/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
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 town in northeastern Poland with 26,500 inhabitants (2003). 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).

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

• Mordechaj Anielewicz, leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Monument to Mordechaj Anielewicz in Wyszków

• Jarosław Kalinowski
• Berek Lajcher

International relations

Twin towns — sister cities

Wyszków is twinned with:

• Kohtla-Järve, Estonia^[1]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wyszków.

External links

• Jewish Community in Wyszków on Virtual Shtetl

Wyszków County
Seat: Wyszków
Urban-rural gmina	Gmina Wyszków
Rural gminas	Gmina Brańszczyk Gmina Długosiodło Gmina Rząśnik Gmina Somianka Gmina Zabrodzie

Gmina Wyszków
Town and seat	Wyszków
Villages	Deskurów Drogoszewo Fidest Gulczewo Kamieńczyk Kręgi Nowe Leszczydół Działki Leszczydół Stary Leszczydół-Nowiny Leszczydół-Podwielątki Leszczydół-Pustki Łosinno Lucynów Lucynów Duży Natalin Olszanka Puste Łąki Rybienko Nowe Rybienko Stare Rybno Sitno Skuszew Ślubów Świniotop Tulewo Tulewo Górne Tumanek

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