A large number of Jews lived in Sokolow. City inventories clearly noted a significant number of them here. Old-monks appeared in the city in the 16th century, together with flow of wide range of people in particular to private cities in Podlasie, which, as opposed to royal centres, did not …
This is a very interesting Jewish plan of Sokolow. It is a kind of the mental map – the concepts introduced by the American architect and urban planner Kevin Lynch. Such a map is an individual and subjective image of the environment in the human mind. Such a map is …
Sokołow Podlaski is the oldest city in the historic Podlasie. Grand Duke Witold called himself Aleksander, as privilege written in Latin in Grodno on 20th April 1424, expressed: taking into account and in assessing accurate and continuous service, very attentive to us, Mikolaj Sapienski, our secretary, we grant him and …
It is difficult to identify when Orthodox Church started to operate in Sokolow Podlaski. The historical division of the city into Russian and Latin parts shows that each community probably had its temple in the 15th century. We know that Greek parish operated in the 16th century, when the wealthy …
The oldest Catholic cemetery was situated around the parish church at Koscielna street. In the vicinity another cemetery was established, however, establishment date is not recorded in the sources. It was probably shortly before 1836, because parish goods of this time described parish cemeteries as follows: Cemetery is one at …
Other, non-existent currently place of burials was cemetery located at former orthodox church (non-existent) situated at so-called Russian Market, on the hill between today’s Dluga, Siedlecka and Repkowska Street, called Protection of Holy Virgin Mary. In 1757, cemetery was described as follows: there was wooden bell tower, with dome and …
The oldest historical sources show existence of two settlement structures in Sokolow, called Russian city and Lackie city. This was associated with mixed ethnic settlement in these areas. Lackie city was inhabited mainly by Poles – Catholics, it was organised around Catholic parish temple in the north from today’s market …
In 1898, Walerian Kronenberg – excellent garden planner, who planned new park while maintaining old trees, was involved to develop the park surrounding the palace of the Hirschmann family. He designed new view ducts radiating towards the east of the palace. The old oak trees and larches and low view …
In 1980 a wooden church of St. Roch was moved from Kosowska Street to Przezdziatka district, the present location. However, the new church was constructed using reinforced concrete poles and ring beam, pine logs from the old church, removing the old decorative timber, were used to fill walls. In this …
The historical trail of Sokolow was specified with the authentic most important events over nearly six centuries of the city on the Cetynia River. It is commemorated with the 15 plaques illustrating the rich and beautiful history and dramatic periods in the history of the city and its residents. It …