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THE CITY OF LUBLIN


BRIEF HISTORY OF LUBLIN

       
 

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MONUMENT OF THE UNION OF LUBLIN


LUBLINIANKA HOTEL


WIENIAWSKI FAMILY
HOUSE


HOLY CROSS CHURCH


OUR VICTORIOUS LADY'S CHURCH and St. BRIGITTE'S CONVENT


ARCHIEPISCOPAL SEE and the TRYNITARSKA TOWER in night scenery


OLD TOWN TENEMENT
HOUSES


ST. ELIAS'S CHURCH


VETTERÓW HIGH SCHOOL
 

6th -7th century

Early settlements on Czwartek, and later on the neighbouring hills of - Grodzisko, Zamkowe, Staromiejskie, Żmigrów and Białkowskie.
   
 

mid 12th century

 Lublin becomes a castellany, with the castellan's seat in a stronghold surrounded by a wooden-earth bulwark on Castle Hill.
   
 

mid 13th century

 The first stone structure erected in Lublin by the Russian duke Daniel Halicki, namely a guard tower on Castle Hilll called a "donjon".
   
 

1260

 The Dominican Order arrives in Lublin. The Order erects a wooden Oratory of the Holy Cross in the Old Town. In mid 14th century a stone church and monastery - preserved until this day.
   
 

1282

 Foundation of the Gothic church - St. Michael's - built on Castle Hill by the Duke of Sandomierz, Leszek Czarny, as a votive offering in celebration of his victory over the Jadźwingians; the church existed until mid 19th century; its only remnants being the reconstructed foundations in the Po Farze Square.
   
 

15th Aug
1317

Prince Władysław Łokietek of Kraków and Sandomierz grants a charter of city rights to Lublin under Magdeburg Law; the city's blazon was to represent a goat climbing a vine spring - which remains in use until this day.
   
 

1342-1370

 King Kazimierz the Great erects the city walls with two main gates (Grodzka and Krakowska), as well as minor gates and towers; a castle is also build - its remains have been preserved on Castle Hill in the form of the ground floor of the so called Jewish Tower (Baszta Żydowska), the Castle Chapel of Holy Trinity is also founded.
   
 

1390

The first mention of an orthodox church in Lublin.
   
 

1412-1426

Erection of St. Brigid's church and monastery as a votive offering of King Władysław Jagiełło to celebrate his victory at Grunwald.
   
 

1418

Decoration of the Trinity Chapel at the castle with Ruthenian-Byzantine frescos; founded by Władysław Jagiełło and overseen by master Andrzej.
   
 

2nd half of the 15th century

 The first mention of Jewish presence in Lublin; their settlement concentrated in the area surrounding the castle and a part of the Old Town.
   
 

1474

 King Kazimierz Jagiellończyk divides the former Sandomierskie Voivodship and establishes a separate territorial entity of the Lubelskie Voivodship, with the capital in Lublin; the voivodship blazon represented a leaping deer with a crown around its neck in red background.
   
 

1506

 Pipe-master Jan is commissioned to build the sewage system to provide water from the Bystrzyca to public intakes in the Old Town.
   
 

approx. 1560

 Mass multi-religious moment begins, Lublin becomes one of the main centres of the Arian movement in Poland.
   
 

1569

 Signing of the union between Poland and Lithuania, known as the Union of Lublin, which established the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania; the momentous event was presented by Matejko in his painting "Unia Lubelska" which can be found at the Lublin Castle.
   
 

1575

 A great fire in Lublin which nearly destroyed the city; the fire destroyed tenement houses, the city hall, the city wall with towers and gates as well as churches and monasteries - Lublin was rebuilt in the Renaissance style.
   
 

1578

 King Stefan Batory establishes the Crown Tribunal in Lublin, i.e. the superior judicial instance for the Małopolski Region, seated in the city hall. As some tribunal sessions lasted for over six months, a number of magnates chose to erect their palaces in the city outskirts, e.g. the Lubomirski or Czartoryski Families.
   
 

1584

 On 12th August - Jan Kochanowski unexpectedly dies in Lublin - a great poet of the Polish Renaissance who often visited his friends in the city, he bore witness to such grand events as the Prussian Homage and the Signing of the Union of Lublin in 1569.
   
 

1655-57

 The "Swedish Deluge" i.e. occupation of Lublin and the entire Commonwealth by Swedes led by Carl Gustav; the city was severely damaged.
   
 

1784

 Lublin Reformats are granted the consent of King Stanisław August to erect a Lutheran church (still existing), a school and a hospital in Krakowskie Przedmieście.
   
 

1795-1809

 Lublin is annexed and occupied by Austria.
   
 

1815

 Following the Congress of Vienna, Lublin becomes a part of the Kingdom of Poland, subordinate to Czarist Russia
   
 

1877

 Railway connection between Lublin, Warszawa and Kevel is opened, which greatly influences the city's economy.
   
 

1914

 Opening of the Lublin Museum, which operates until this day.
   
 

1918

 In the night of 7th and 8th November, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland is established in Lublin by Ignacy Daszyński, for a number of days - until the Government is established in Warsaw - Lublin is the capital of Poland.
   
 

1918

 Opening of the Catholic University in Lublin, which educated such personages as Primate Stefan Wyszyński, and in which Karol Wojtyła - future Pope John Paul II works as a lecturer
   
 

1930

 Opening of the Jewish Lublin School of Wisdom (Yeshiva Chachmey) - a modern Talmudic university.
   
 

1939

 On 9th September the city is bombarded by the German Air force; one of the casualties is Józef Czechowicz - an eminent Polish poet from Lublin.
   
 

1939

 On 17th September German forces take control of the city and occupy it for a number of years; it is a period of terror, cultural and economic suppression. Many residents of the city lost their lives.
   
 

1941

 German forces begin the construction of the concentration camp at Majdanek, where hundreds of thousands of prisoners from 26 European countries are murdered, majority of whom are Polish, Russian and Jewish.
   
 

1941

 Nazis establish an isolated Jewish district in the city, known as the ghetto, which is later liquidated on April 17th 1943 and the Jewish population is murdered at concentration camps in: Majdanek, Bełżec and Sobibór.
   
 

1944

 On 22nd July, the evacuating German forces execute approximately 200 prisoners at the Castle, two days later Lublin is taken over by Russian and Polish forces, for 164 days Lublin serves as the provisional capital of Poland; the date also marks the beginning of communist terror and persecution of Polish patriots by the Soviet and Polish authorities - it is the beginning of the People's Republic of Poland, dominated by the USSR.
   
 

1944

 Maria Curie Skłodowska University is established.
   
 

1980

 In July in Świdnik, and later in Lublin working class protests erupt which mark the beginning of important socio-political changes in Poland, such as the creation of Solidarność and democratisation of the country.
   
 

1987

 During the Papal Pilgrimage to Poland, Pope John Paul II arrives in Lublin, visiting the concentration camp at Majdanek and the Catholic University of Lublin, in the fields of the Czuby District the Holy Father celebrates a Mass for hundreds of thousands of people.
     
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