Pionki

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Place in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

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::summary Place in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland ::

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Field	Value
name	Pionki
image_skyline	5 Zakładowa Street in Pionki, 2018.04.02 (03).jpg
image_caption	Local Activity Center in Pionki
image_flag	POL Pionki flag (2002-2016).svg
image_shield	Herb Pionki 2016 1.svg
pushpin_map	Poland
pushpin_label_position	bottom
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Voivodeship
subdivision_name1	Masovian
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Radom
subdivision_type3	Gmina
subdivision_name3	Pionki (urban gmina)
established_title	First mentioned
established_date	1391
established_title3	Town rights
established_date3	1954
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Łukasz Miśkiewicz
area_total_km2	18.34
population_total	18846
population_as_of	2016
population_density_km2	auto
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	26-670 to 26-675
area_code	+48 048
website	http://www.pionki.pl
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
blank_name	Car plates
blank_info	WRA
::

History

The mills of Pionki and Zagożdżon were first mentioned in medieval documents in 1391. Both settlements were royal villages, administratively located in the Radom County in the Sandomierz Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.

Until 1932, the settlement was a village named Zagożdżon. Its development was closely associated with Chemical Plant Pronit (Zakłady Tworzyw Sztucznych ZTS Pronit), founded in 1923 as State Manufacturer of Gunpowder and Explosives (Państwowa Wytwórnia Prochu i Materiałów Kruszących PWPiMK). Originally, it was an arms factory, which manufactured explosives, and its location was deliberate - next to the village of Zagożdżon, among the forests and swamps of the Kozienice Wilderness, away from main population centers, and along the strategic rail line Radom-Dęblin. After World War II, the Chemical Plant Pronit began manufacturing glue, plastic, as well as gramophone records.

In the interbellum period, Pionki prospered due to government contracts, as demand for explosives of its chemical plant was high. In 1925, a new rail station was opened, three years later - a post office. In 1929, overhead power line joined Pionki with Skarżysko-Kamienna, and a vocational high school was opened. Later on, a new police station was opened, and in 1937, the construction of a hospital was initiated.

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Home_Army_Monument_in_Pionki,2019.07.24(01).jpg" caption="Memorial to local Polish resistance members executed by the Germans in 1944"] ::

During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II, in 1939, Pionki was bombed by the Luftwaffe and afterwards the Germans occupied the town. In addition to the other destruction, the Germans brutalized the Poles and the small Jewish population of around 200. As part of the AB-Aktion, in June 1940, the Germans carried out mass arrests of Poles, who were afterwards imprisoned and tortured in Skarżysko-Kamienna and then murdered in a forest near Skarżysko-Kamienna. Many Jews were conscripted for slave labor including the most dangerous jobs at a local gunpowder faculty. In late 1941, a ghetto was established and Jews from surrounding towns brought there, resulting in a population of around 700 and such severe overcrowding that some people lived in the street. Some local Poles were helpful in providing food for the impoverished residents. In August 1942, some of the healthier workers were sent to live at a work camp while the rest were sent to the Zwolen ghetto and then, in late September, to the Treblinka extermination camp. They were immediately murdered there by gassing. The number of Pionki Jewish survivors was small, but at least eight. In April 1944, the Germans executed 10 Polish resistance members in Pionki.

In 1919–1939, and after the war, until 1975, Pionki belonged to the Kielce Voivodeship. In 1975–1998, it administratively belonged to the Radom Voivodeship. In 1957–1991, the largest vinyl record pressing plant in Poland was located in Pionki.

Sports

The town is home to a sports club Proch Pionki, established in 1926.

Notable people

Punk rock band The Bill comes from Pionki. Polish musician Andrzej Piaseczny was born there.

Twin towns

Pionki are twinned with:

ROU Breaza
UKR Vyshneve

Gallery

Upper Pond in Pionki, 2019.07.25 (01).jpg|Upper Pond (Staw Górny) Pionki Kosciol sw Barbary.jpg|Saint Barbara church Izba Czarnej Płyty, Pionki 2018.07.05 (02).jpg|Memorial to the former vinyl record pressing plant 7 Radomska Street in Pionki, 2019.02.21 (04).jpg|Pedagogical Library

References

. (1993). "Województwo sandomierskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku; Cz.1, Mapy, plany". *[[Polish Scientific Publishers PWN*.
Wardzyńska, Maria. (2009). "Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion". [[Institute of National Remembrance.
(2012). "Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos". University of Indiana Press.
""Gloria Victis" dla pionkowskich partyzantów".
"Izba Regionalna "Czarna Płyta"".

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