Wloszczowa

Wloszczowa is a city in Poland, in Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship, about 50 kilometers west of Kielce. It is the capital of Wloszczowa County. Population is 10,756. Wloszczowa lies in historical Lesser Poland, and from its foundation till 1795, it belonged to Sandomierz Voivodeship. The town has the location of 30 kilometers and is a junction of regional roads near 786, 742, and 785. Wloszczowa has two rail stations: PKP Wloszczowa and PKP Wloszczowa Polnoc. Wloszczowa changed into first cited in 1154, when Prince Henryk Sandomierski exceeded the village recognized then as Vloszcova to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta monks. It obtained its town charter in 1539, when King Zygmunt Stary passed the document to the starosta of Checiny, Hieronim Szafraniec.

The city remained the belongings of the Szafraniec circle of relatives until the overdue 18^th century. In the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Wloszczowa was part of Lesser Poland’s Sandomierz Voivodeship. After the Partitions of Poland, it belonged to Russian controlled Congress Poland 1815 to 1918. In the Second Polish Republic, Wloszczowa belonged to Kielce Voivodeship. It had a huge Jewish populace, which made 50% of its populace in 1925. Almost all Wloszczowa’s Jews had been murdered by the Germans inside the Holocaust.