Chrzanów

City: Chrzanów

Country: Republic of Poland

Address: Urząd Miejski w Chrzanowie ul.Henryka 20 Chrzanow 32-500 POLSKA

Official page: chrzanow.pl

Cooperation agreement: 16.02.2001

Chrzanow is a county town located in the western part of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, above the left tributary of the Vistula - the river Hechlo. The area of the commune, home to about 40,000 people, is almost 80 square kilometers. The linear distance from Ivano-Frankivsk to Chrzanow is 408 km.

Chrzanow received the Magdeburg right to self-government in 1393.

Ancient Polish Chrzanow was famous for trade in cattle and precious metals, mainly ore, tin, zinc and iron. The important role of the city in the tin trade is confirmed by the unit of weight determination of this precious metal formed from the name of the city - Centner of Chrzanow Libra.

The seventeenth century brought the city an economic crisis associated with hostilities, epidemics and fires. Only at the end of the eighteenth century, thanks to the invention of new methods of mining, significant development began in the city's economy. At that time, the city and its surrounding territory belonged, in part, to Western Galicia, the Principality of Warsaw, the Republic of Krakow, and from 1846 - to Galicia.

From a city of artisans and merchants, Chrzanow became an industrial center and the county capital. At the beginning of the 20th century, the two largest enterprises at that time started operating in Chrzanow: the first locomotive factory in Poland and the Stella refractory materials factory, which still operate today.

The tourist advantage of the city is its location close to Krakow, Auschwitz, Wadowice, as well as the well-equipped water center "Hechlo Bay".

Chrzanow is a city of medieval history. Most of the preserved antiquities date back to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Walking through Chrzanow, you should visit the Church of St. Nicholas with medieval Gothic carvings and a baroque chapel of St. Stanislaus, completed in 1641.