Lipsko

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Field	Value
name	Lipsko
image_skyline	Kościół Świętej Trójcy w Lipsku.jpg
imagesize	250px
image_caption	Holy Trinity church in Lipsko
image_shield	POL Lipsko COA.svg
pushpin_map	Poland
pushpin_label_position	bottom
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Voivodeship
subdivision_name1	Masovian
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Lipsko
subdivision_type3	Gmina
subdivision_name3	Lipsko
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Jacek Wielorański
established_title	First mentioned
established_date	1589
established_title3	Town rights
established_date3	1613
area_total_km2	15.7
population_as_of	2006
population_total	5826
population_density_km2	auto
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
coordinates
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	27-300
area_code	+48 48
blank_name	Car plates
blank_info	WLI
blank1_name_sec2	Voivodeship roads
blank1_info_sec2	[[File:DW747-PL.svg
website	http://www.lipsko.eu
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Geography

Lipsko is located on two hills, divided by the Krępianka river.

History

First mention about it comes from April 1589, when the village belonged to the Krępski family. In 1613 it was granted town rights, and quickly developed, due to the location along the “oxen road”, from Red Ruthenia to Greater Poland and Silesia. In 1614, Holy Trinity Church was built, founded by Lord Mikołaj Oleśnicki. Lipsko was a private town, administratively located in the Radom County in the Sandomierz Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland, In the 16th-18th centuries Lipsko belonged to various noble families - the Wolskis, Gostomskis, Oleśnickis, Denhoffs, Sanguszkos, and Kochanowskis. The Dębno coat of arms of the Oleśnicki family remains the town's coat of arms to this day.

The town was annexed by Austria in the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. It was regained by Poles following the Austro–Polish War of 1809, and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. After the duchy's dissolution, in 1815, it fell to the Russian Partition of Poland. In 1868, as a punishment for participation of residents in the Polish January Uprising, the Russians took away Lipsko’s town rights, turning it into a village (Lipsko did not become a town again until 1958). After World War I, in 1918, Poland regained independence and control of the town.

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Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany. The German occupiers committed mass murders and brutalized both the Christian Polish and Jewish population. At the beginning of the war, about 1,600 Jews lived in Lipsko, half the population. When the Germans occupied the town, on September 8, 1939, they shot several Jews, including the rabbi, and then burned alive 60 to 80 Jews in the synagogue. Later the Jewish population was forced into a ghetto and Jews from surrounding villages were brought there too. By October 1942, there were 3,600 Jews in the ghetto. Lipsko was conveniently, for the Germans, located near a railway line. Some Jews were deported to forced labour camps, but in mid October 1942, the rest of the Jewish population were rounded up by German police and Ukrainian auxiliary guards. A few escaped to hide with local Polish friends or join the partisans. Most were transported to the Tarłów ghetto and then on to the Treblinka extermination camp, where they were murdered on arrival by gassing. The number of Jewish survivors from Lipsko is unknown.

On January 1, 1956, Lipsko became the seat of a county in Kielce Voivodeship. From 1975 to 1998, it was administratively part of the Radom Voivodeship.

Sports

The town is home to a sports club Powiślanka Lipsko, founded in 1964.

References

History of Lipsko

References

. (1993). "Województwo sandomierskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku; Cz.1, Mapy, plany". *[[Polish Scientific Publishers PWN*.
(2012). "Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos". University of Indiana Press.

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