Everything about Siedlce totally explained
Siedlce is a town in eastern
Poland with 77,092 inhabitants (
as of 2005). Situated in the
Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously the town was the capital of a separate
Siedlce Voivodeship (1975-1998).
Towns such as Siedlce in the depressed east have now been emptied by large-scale emigration to the West. Statistics show that 14 per cent of employers recently reported labour shortages, compared with 8 per cent in the first quarter of 2004.
The town was most probably founded some time before 15th century and was first mentioned under the name of Siedlecz in a document of
1448. In
1503 Daniel Siedlecki erected a new village of the same name nearby and a church in the middle. In
1547 the town, created out of a merger of the two villages, was granted
Magdeburg rights by King
Sigismund the Old. Until
1807, when it was confiscated by the
Russian authorities, it remained a
private property of several notable
magnate families, among them
Czartoryski and
Ogiński. During the
World War II more than 50% of all buildings in the city, including a historical town hall, were destroyed.
Education
Higher education
People from Siedlce
Artur Boruc - a Celtic Glasgow goalkeeper
Lidia Chojecka - a Polish middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres and sometimes 3000 metres.
Agata Wróbel - weightlifter, 2000 Summer Olympics silver medalist
Aleksandra Klejnowska - weightlifter
Bolesław Prus - writer, novelist
Leon Wyczółkowski - painter
Bohdan Arct - fighter pilot, writer
Józef Oleksy - former PM of Poland
Gallery
Image:Ratusz Miejski .JPG|City hall
Image:Sąd Okręgowy.JPG|The District Court
Image:Poczta Polska.JPG|The Post Office
Image:UM w Siedlcach.JPG|City hall
Image:Kościół Św.Stanisława.JPG|St. Stanislas Church
Image:Kilińskiego.JPG|Kiliński Street
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