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Rawicz
Town Hall in Rawicz
Coat of arms
Rawicz
Coordinates: 51°36′33″N 16°51′27″E / 51.60917°N 16.85750°E / 51.60917; 16.85750
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Rawicz County
Gmina	Gmina Rawicz
Established	1638
Town rights	1638
Government
• Mayor	Grzegorz Kubik
Area
• Total	7.81 km2 (3.02 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Total	21,301
• Density	2,700/km2 (7,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	63-900
Area code(s)	+48 65
Car plates	PRA
Website	http://www.rawicz.pl

Rawicz [ˈravʲit͡ʂ] (German: Rawitsch) is a town in central Poland with 21,398 inhabitants (2004). It is situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in Leszno Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Rawicz County.

History

The town was founded by Adam Olbracht Przyjma-Przyjemski for Protestant refugees from Silesia during the Thirty Years War. From the partition of Poland in 1793 to the Great War of 1914-1918, with a brief interruption in 1815, when Napoleon made it part of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, Rawicz was part of the German kingdom of Prussia. In the 1800s, it contained a Protestant church and a medieval town hall. The principal industry was the manufacture of snuff and cigars. Trade involved grain, wool, cattle, hides, and timber. In 1905 it had 11,403 inhabitants.
A large prison exists in former monastery since 1820.
After World War I the town became part of the Second Polish Republic.

A 50 billion cubic feet natural gas discovery at Rawicz in 2015 is expected to be the largest gas development in Poland for 20 years.^[1]

Notable residents

• 
  Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff (1803–1865), German grammarian and language educator


• 
  Wolfgang Straßmann (1821–1885), politician


• 
  Heinrich Braun (1862–1934), surgeon


• 
  Maximilian Otte (1910–1944), Luftwaffe pilot


• 
  Arthur Ruppin (1876–1943), Zionist
  


• 
  Reinhard Seiler (1909–1989), Luftwaffe officer


• 
  Piotr Świderski (born 1983), speedway rider


• 
  Anita Włodarczyk (born 1985), hammer thrower

See also

• Battle of Rawicz


• Coat of Arms of Rawicz

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rawicz.

• Municipal Website


• 
  Rawicz Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Book (Hebrew & English)

Coordinates: 51°37′N 16°53′E / 51.617°N 16.883°E / 51.617; 16.883

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