Sochaczew

Sochaczew

Infobox Settlement
name = Sochaczew


imagesize = 250px
image_shield = POL Sochaczew COA.svg
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pushpin_label_position = bottom
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Masovian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Sochaczew County
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Sochaczew (urban gmina)
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Bogumił Czubacki
established_title = Town rights
established_date = 1368
area_total_km2 = 26.13
population_as_of = 2007
population_total = 37910
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd=52 |latm=14 |lats= |latNS=N
longd=20 |longm=14 |longs= |longEW=E
elevation_m = 81
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 96-500 to 96-503
area_code = +48 46
website = http://www.sochaczew.pl
blank_name = Car plates
blank_info = WSC

Sochaczew [IPA-pl|s|o|'|h|a|cz|e|f] is a town in central Poland, with 38,300 inhabitants (2004).

Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Skierniewice Voivodeship (1975-1998). It is the capital of Sochaczew County.

Sochaczew has a narrow-gauge railway museum with a line that runs out as far as Wilcze Tułowskie. Steam trains run back and forth on the line on Saturdays from spring to the end of summer. Although the line is 750mm gauge, there is a number of static exhibits in the museum of narrower and broader gauge.

Education

* Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania i Marketingu

Famous people

* Fryderyk Chopin - componist and pianist (1810 - 1849)
* Avrohom Bornsztain, the "Avnei Nezer" - First Sochatchover Rebbe (1838 - 1910)
* Shmuel Bornsztain, the "Shem Mishmuel" - Second Sochatchover Rebbe (1856-1926)
* Wladyslaw Komendarek - musician
* Bogusław Liberadzki - MEP - born 1948 in Sochaczew
* Oser Warszawski - Yiddish writer - born 1898 in Sochaczew, killed in Auschwitz in 1944

References

External links

* [http://www.sochaczew.pl/ Sochaczew]
* [http://e-Sochaczew.pl e-Sochaczew]
* [http://www.sochaczewianin.pl sochaczewianin]
* [http://www.e-sochaczew.pl/muzeum/ Museum of Sochaczew County]
* [http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=1263 Sochaczew Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Book] (Yiddish & Hebrew)
* [http://www.wszim-sochaczew.edu.pl/ WSZiM]


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