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Zakroczym

Place in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Zakroczym ([zaˈkrɔt͡ʂɨm]; Yiddish: זאקראטשין Zakrotshin) is a town in the Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.[1] The Vistula River flows through the town. Zakroczym has a long and rich history: in the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, it was the capital of an administrative unit (ziemia), part of Mazovian Voivodeship. Also, Zakroczym was a royal town of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. The town lies at the intersection of two main roads - national road 62, and national road 7.

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Name

The name of Zakroczym comes from ancient Polish word zakrot, which means river crossing. Originally, the town was located closer to the Vistula river, and was called Kroczym or Kroczyn. Due to numerous floods, Zakroczym was moved to a higher location.

History

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Sights

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Baroque Saint Lawrence church
  • Gothic-Renaissance Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (15th or 16th century), rebuilt after World War II in 1949. In its northern and southern walls there are Swedish cannonballs,
  • Baroque Capuchin monastery and church of Saint Lawrence,
  • a monument dedicated to insurgents of 1830 and 1863, and to victims of the war,
  • castle hill, with a 19th-century manor house, built on 15th-century foundations. Original manor house was built before 1422 by Mazovian dukes,
  • traces of an 11th-century gord, located northeast of town, on a high bank of the Vistula. The gord, first mentioned in 1065, was burned in late 13th century, and later rebuilt.
  • Fort Nr. 1 Zakroczym (1883–1888).

Transport

The Expressway S7 and National road 62 run through the town, and the Warsaw Modlin Airport is located just east of the town.

Cuisine

The Zakroczym area is one of the places of cherry cultivation in Poland, which is one of the world's main cherry producers. Cherry products such as podchmielone wisienki zakroczymskie (cherries covered with syrup and spirit) and konfitura wiśniowa zakroczymska (a local type of traditional Polish cherry jam) are officially protected traditional foods of Zakroczym, as designated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland.[4][5]

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