Mszczonów

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Town in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

title: "Mszczonów" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cities-and-towns-in-masovian-voivodeship", "żyrardów-county", "historic-jewish-communities-in-poland", "sites-of-nazi-war-crimes-in-the-invasion-of-poland"] description: "Town in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland" topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mszczonów" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Town in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland ::

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leader_titleMayor
leader_nameŁukasz Koperski
established_titleFirst mentioned
established_date1245
established_title3Town rights
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population_as_of2006
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coordinates
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area_code+48 46
blank_nameCar plates
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History

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Kościół_św_Jana_Chrzciciela_w_Mszczonowie.jpg" caption="Saint John the Baptist church"] ::

The oldest known mention of Mszczonów comes from a document of Duke Konrad I of Masovia from 1245, when it was part of fragmented Piast-ruled Poland. Mszczonów was granted town rights in 1377 or earlier. It was a royal town of Poland, administratively located in the Rawa Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. One of two main routes connecting Warsaw and Dresden ran through the town in the 18th century and Kings Augustus II the Strong and Augustus III of Poland often traveled that route.

The town possessed a vibrant Jewish community, and it was once the center of the Hasidic Amshinov dynasty (Mszczonów being pronounced as "Amshinov" in Yiddish.) According to the 1921 census, the town had a population of 5,014, of which 80.1% declared Polish nationality and 19.7% declared Jewish nationality.

During the invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was invaded by Nazi Germany. On September 8, 1939, German troops murdered 11 Polish prisoners of war in the town, and on September 11, 1939, the Germans carried out a mass execution of 20 local Poles, including mayor Aleksander Tański, two priests and a doctor (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation). At least five Poles from Mszczonów were murdered by the Russians in the large Katyn massacre in 1940. In late 1940, about 2,000 Jews were concentrated in a ghetto that was set up in the city, from which they were marched to Żyrardów in February 1941. From there, they were deported to the Warsaw Ghetto.

Sports and recreation

Deepspot, the second deepest swimming pool in the world, is located in the town.

The local football team is KS Mszczonowianka. It competes in the lower leagues.

Notable people

References

References

  1. "Informacja historyczna".
  2. . (1925). "Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom I". *Główny Urząd Statystyczny*.
  3. Sudoł, Tomasz. (2011). "Zbrodnie Wehrmachtu na jeńcach polskich we wrześniu 1939 roku". [[Institute of National Remembrance.
  4. Wardzyńska, Maria. (2009). "Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion". IPN.
  5. ""Katyń... Ocalić od zapomnienia"".
  6. "Klub Sportowy Mszczonowianka".

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