Annopol

{{Other places|Annopol (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Annopol

| settlement_type = Town

| image_skyline = MOs810 WG 25 2024 (Kielce-Wisła) Annopol, Market Square 02.jpg

| image_caption = Market Square with the Monument to Women of Lublin Region murdered by the occupiers during World War II

| image_flag = POL Annopol flag.svg

| image_shield = POL Annopol COA.svg

| pushpin_map = Poland

| pushpin_label_position = bottom

| coordinates = {{coord|50|53|07|N|21|51|25|E|region:PL_type:city|display=title,inline}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{POL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship

| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Lublin Voivodeship|name=Lublin}}

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Kraśnik

| subdivision_type3 = Gmina

| subdivision_name3 = Annopol

| established_title = Town rights{{Cite Polish law |title=Rozporządzenie Rady Ministrów z dnia 19 grudnia 1995 r. w sprawie nadania niektórym miejscowościom statusu miasta |year=1995 |volume=153 |number=780 |date=1995-12-19}}

| established_date = 1 January 1996

| government_footnotes = {{cite web |url=http://www.annopol.info/urzad/burmistrz.html |title=Burmistrz |website=www.annopol.info |publisher=Urząd Miejski w Annopolu |language=Polish |trans-title=Mayor |access-date=4 December 2022}}

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Mirosław Gazda

| area_footnotes = {{cite web |url=http://bdl.stat.gov.pl/bdl/dane/teryt/jednostka |title=Local Data Bank |website=bdl.stat.gov.pl |publisher=Statistics Poland |access-date=4 December 2022}} Category K1, group G441, subgroup P1410. Data for territorial unit 0607024.

| area_total_km2 = 7.73

| population_footnotes = {{cite web |url=http://bdl.stat.gov.pl/bdl/dane/teryt/jednostka |title=Local Data Bank |website=bdl.stat.gov.pl |publisher=Statistics Poland |access-date=23 February 2023}} Category K3, group G7, subgroup P1336. Data for territorial unit 0607024.{{cite web |url=http://bdl.stat.gov.pl/bdl/dane/teryt/jednostka |title=Local Data Bank |website=bdl.stat.gov.pl |publisher=Statistics Poland |access-date=23 February 2023}} Category K3, group G7, subgroup P2425. Data for territorial unit 0607024.

| population_as_of = 30 June 2022

| population_total = 2335

| population_density_km2 = 302

| timezone = CET

| utc_offset = +1

| timezone_DST = CEST

| utc_offset_DST = +2

| postal_code_type = Postal code{{cite web |url=http://www.poczta-polska.pl/hermes/uploads/2013/11/spispna.pdf |title=Oficjalny Spis Pocztowych Numerów Adresowych |website=poczta-polska.pl |publisher=Poczta Polska |pages=6, 1655 |language=Polish |format=PDF |access-date=18 February 2023}}

| postal_code = 23-235

| area_code_type = Area code{{Cite Polish law |title=Rozporządzenie Ministra Administracji i Cyfryzacji z dnia 30 października 2013 r. w sprawie planu numeracji krajowej dla publicznych sieci telekomunikacyjnych, w których świadczone są publicznie dostępne usługi telefoniczne |year=2013 |number=1281 |date=2013-10-30}}

| area_code = +48 15

| registration_plate_type = Number plates{{Cite Polish law |title=Rozporządzenie Ministra Infrastruktury z dnia 31 sierpnia 2022 r. w sprawie rejestracji i oznaczania pojazdów, wymagań dla tablic rejestracyjnych oraz wzorów innych dokumentów związanych z rejestracją pojazdów |year=2022 |number=1847 |date=2022-08-31}}

| registration_plate = LKR

| website = http://www.annopol.info

}}

Annopol {{IPAc-pl|AUD|Pl-Annopol.ogg|a|'|nː|o|p|o|l}} is a town in south-eastern Poland, located in Kraśnik County in Lublin Voivodeship, in the historic region of Lesser Poland.{{TERYT}} Annopol has an area of {{convert|7.73|sqkm|sqmi|abbr=off}}, and as of June 2022 it has 2,335 inhabitants.

History

File:Przeprawa I Brygady Legionów Polskich przez Wisłę pod Annopolem, 1915.jpg

Annopol received town rights in 1761, lost them in 1870{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}} and regained on 1 January 1996. Its coat of arms shows St. Anna, the patron saint of the town (the name means Anna's city, from Greek polis). It owes its picturesque location to the Lesser Polish Gorge of the Vistula.

Jews began to settle in the town in the early 1600s.{{cite web |url=http://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/a/485-annopol/99-history/137024-history-of-community |title=History of the community |website=sztetl.org.pl |publisher=Virtual Shtetl |access-date=4 December 2022}} 73% of the town's population was Jewish by 1921.

Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in 1939, Annopol was occupied by Germany until 1944. During the Holocaust, a ghetto was created by the Germans. Jews from nearby villages and smaller towns, as well as from Kalisz and Łódź, were displaced to the Annopol ghetto. Jews from the ghetto were sent to the forced labor camps in nearby Rachów and Janiszów.{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Annopol/annopol.html |title=Rachow-Annopol; Pirkei Edut We-Zikaron |website=jewishgen.org |publisher=JewishGen |access-date=21 July 2018}} The ghetto was liquidated on October 15, 1943 and most of the Jews were murdered at the Belzec extermination camp.

The history of Annopol is inextricably linked to that of Annopol-Rachów village close by, often combined as one and the same in written records.Annopol is not to be confused with any one of Annopol towns in Ukraine, also spelled Hannopil (Аннополь, Ганнопіль) in Vinnyts'ka, Khmel'nyts'ka, Kharkivs'ka and Zhytomyr Oblasts. The town in the Yad Vashem listing, Anipoli, may be one of the Ukrainian Annopol towns, quote: Yiddish Anipoli or Hanipol. The town was an important Hassidic study center. The Maggid of Mezritch is buried there as well as Rabbi Zusha of Hanipol (note spelling), who is named after this town. See: [http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghetto_details.asp?cid=1111 About Jewish Annopol] (Hebrew) on Yad Vashem's Ghetto Encyclopedia website.

From 1975 to 1998, it was administratively located in the Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship.

Transport

Annopol does not have a rail station, but the town is placed along national road 74, which goes from Piotrków Trybunalski to the Ukrainian border at the village of Zosin. Voivodeship roads 824 and 854 also pass through the town. The Vistula river road bridge at Annopol was built in 1967.

Gallery

File:Małopolski przełom wisly.jpg|Bridge over Vistula in Annopol

SM Annopol Kościół św Joachima i św Anny 2019 (2).jpg|St. Joachim and Anne Church

File:SM Annopol Kościół św Joachima i św Anny - wnętrze 2019 (1).jpg|Interior of St. Joachim and Anne Church

File:Kirkut w Annopolu 11.jpg|Holocaust memorial at the Jewish cemetery

References

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