Skierniewice

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Skierniewice rail station (1872)

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Skierniewice, Willa Kozlowskich

Skierniewice [skʲɛrɲɛˈvʲit͡sɛ] is a town in central Poland with 49,132 inhabitants (2007), situated in the Łódź Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Skierniewice Voivodship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Skierniewice County. The town is situated almost exactly half-way between Łódź and Warsaw.

Skierniewice gained municipal rights in 1457. It has a famous railway station that was once part of the historic Warsaw-Vienna Railway. On September 15, 1884 it was the setting for the meeting of the Three Emperors' League.

Education

• Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna
• Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa

Politics

Piotrków Trybunalski/Skierniewice constituency

Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Piotrkow/Skierniewice constituency in 2005

• Bujak Bogdan, SLD-UP
• Jagieliński Roman, SLD-UP
• Kędziak Tadeusz, LPR
• Kwaśniewska Dorota, Samoobrona
• Łyżwiński Stanisław, Samoobrona
• Musiał Zbigniew, SLD-UP
• Radziszewska Elżbieta, PO
• Sobotka Zbigniew, SLD-UP
• Wojciechowski Janusz, PSL

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland

Twin towns – Sister cities

Skierniewice is twinned with:

Gera, Germany Châtelaillon-Plage, France Purgstall an der Erlauf, Austria

Náměšť na Hané, Czech Republic Levice, Slovakia Szentes, Hungary

Notable people

Famous people connected with Skierniewice region:

• Nobel Prize Winner for Literature Władysław Reymont
• world-renowned pianist Frédéric Chopin
• Jan Kozietulski, a military commander of the armed forces of the Duchy of Warsaw
• Ignacy Krasicki, a Roman Catholic archbishop and a writer
• Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895–1903)
• Itshak Holtz, Jewish Genre artist, Born (1925)-