Piaski
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Piaski, formerly 'Piaski Luterskie', is a town in Poland at the Giełczew river. The town's population is about 2,800. Administratively it belongs to Powiat of Świdnik of the Lublin Voivodeship. It lies 16 km Southeast of Widnik.
[edit] History
The first documentary mention of the village Piaski originates from the year 1401. In 15. Century received the place of municipal rights, 1470 Pyassek alias Gyelczew as city was for the first time called. In 16. and 17. Century was Protestant the population to large parts, so that in this time the city designation Piaski Luterskie was in-patriated. In the future the number of the Jewish inhabitants increased strongly. It amounted to temporarily over two thirds the total inhabitant shank and it developed a Schtetl. 1795 came the city with the third Polish division to Austria, which lost these areas soon again. 1809 belonged to Piaski to the duchy Warsaw and starting from 1815 to congress Poland. In the year 1869 the place lost its municipal rights. With the establishment the place belonged to the 1st Polish republic to Poland. 1921 2,674 Jews were from the 3,974 inhabitants in the year. After German occupation in 2. World war was Piaski part of the Generalgouvernements, at this time lived 4,165 Jews in Piaski. In the Jewish Schtetl in Piaski a Ghetto was furnished, into which several thousand Jews from the Lubliner Ghetto as well as from the German Reich were transported and from that regular transportation into the extermination camp Belzec took place. 1993 received municipal rights to Piaski back.
[edit] Facilities
Near Piaski there is a TV transmission site, with a 342 metre high guyed mast, one of the tallest in Poland.
[edit] Famous people from Piaski
- Antoni Patek, insurgent in the November Uprising, founder of Patek Philippe Company
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