Mława ([ˈmwava]; Yiddish: מלאווע Mlave) is a town in north-eastern Poland with 30,403 inhabitants in 2020. It is the capital of Mława County.[2] It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship.
Mława | |
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 Mława ratusz | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Mława | |
| Coordinates: 53°07′N 20°22′E / 53.117°N 20.367°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship |  Masovian |
| County | Mława |
| Gmina | Mława (urban gmina) |
| First mentioned | 1426 |
| Town rights | 1429 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Piotr Jankowski |
| Area | |
• Total | 34.8 km2 (13.4 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 180 m (590 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 135 m (443 ft) |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 31,047[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 06-500 to 06-501 |
| Area code | +48 023 |
| Car plates | WML |
| Climate | Dfb |
| Voivodeship roads |   |
| Website | www |
During the invasion of Poland in 1939, the battle of Mława was fought to the north of the city.
History
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The first mention of Mława comes from July 2, 1426, when three princes of Mazovia - Siemowit V, Trojden II and Władysław I came here to a session of a local court. It is not known if Mława had already been an urban center, as there are no sources which would prove it. Three years later, Mława was incorporated as a town[3] It was a royal town, located in the Płock Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.[4] In 1521 during the Polish-Teutonic War, the town was captured and looted by the Teutonic Knights. In 1659 the town was burned by the Swedish troops, and in 1795, following the Third Partition of Poland, Mława became part of the Kingdom of Prussia.
In 1807 it was included in the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw. After Napoleonic Wars, in the 1815 Congress of Vienna Mława (along with the entire province) was incorporated into the Russian Partition of Poland, as part of the initially autonomous Congress Poland. During the January Uprising, on February 20, 1864, it was the site of a clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops.[5] Since the town was located along the pre-1914 imperial Russian-German border, Mława was a place of heavy fighting between the two opposing armies during World War I, and was occupied by Germany.
After the war, in 1918, Poland regained independence and the town was reintegrated with Poland. During the Polish-Soviet War, it was fiercely defended by Poles on August 9–10, 1920, captured by Russians on August 10, and afterwards recaptured by Poles.[6] Within interwar Poland, the town was assigned to the Warsaw Voivodeship (1919–39). The government of the Second Polish Republic constructed several fortifications there due to proximity of the German border.[7][8]
In the opening stages of World War II, the advancing German army faced strong resistance from the Polish Army in the battle of Mława otherwise known as the Defence of the Mława between September 1 and September 3, 1939. The Einsatzgruppe V entered the town on September 10, 1939, and carried out first mass arrests among local Poles, who were afterwards imprisoned in the local prison.[9] Also on September 10, the Germans expelled 69 Jews from the town.[10] The Germans carried out mass searches of Polish offices, courthouses and organizations,[11] and mass arrests of local Polish intelligentsia, including local officials, teachers and priests, as part of the Intelligenzaktion, continued in the following months, many were afterwards murdered in the Soldau concentration camp.[12] Local disabled people were murdered in Ościsłowo, on February 20, 1940.[13] Shortly after the beginning of the occupation of Poland, Mława was annexed to Nazi Germany on 26 October 1939 and administered as part of Regierungsbezirk Zichenau. The Germans established and operated two forced labour camps in the town.[14][15]
The town (known as Mielau in German) gave its name to the Truppenübungsplatz "Mielau" military training range built by prisoners of the Soldau concentration camp nearby and nicknamed the New Berlin. The facility was used by the Nazis for repairing and refitting army tanks in Operation Barbarossa, and for testing anti-tank weapons and artillery on an area of 300 square kilometres (120 sq mi). Some fifteen villages around Krzywonoś were completely dismantled to make room for it and 25,000 people were expelled in the area.[16] Similar Nazi German military ranges in occupied Poland included the SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager located in Pustków and the SS-Truppenübungsplatz Westpreußen located in Dziemiany.
Jews who had survived the ghetto were liquidated to Auschwitz. The last deportation was on December 10, 1942.
Prior to the arrival of the Soviets in 1945, Mława was the location of the German massacre of 364 prisoners of the forced labour camp adjacent to the Truppenübungsplatz "Mielau".[17] In 1945 the town was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which remained in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s. From 1975 to 1998, it was administratively located in the Ciechanów Voivodeship.
In 1991, between 26 and 27 June, the town saw the a series of violent devastations and looting incidents when a group of youth estimated at 200 individuals, including young females, invaded the homes of the local Roma residents causing them to flee.[18] Not a single Roma person was injured in the riot,[18] but the material losses were substantial affecting up to 40% of residences.[18] Many perpetrators were arrested on-site; a number of them sentenced to jail after a trial.[18] The violence was described as motivated by racism and jealousy.[19][20] The incident that triggered the riot was the killing of a Polish pedestrian struck along with his companion in a hit-and-run by a Romani male driver.[18] The event triggered major discussions around the status of the Romani people in Poland, economic disparity, and the direction of the ongoing transitional political, social and economic reforms as the country adjusts after the end of the PRL era.
Climate
editMława has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb) using the −3 °C (27 °F) isotherm or a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfb) using the 0 °C (32 °F) isotherm.[21][22]
| Climate data for Mława (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1961–present) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 11.2 (52.2) |
15.7 (60.3) |
22.3 (72.1) |
28.8 (83.8) |
31.3 (88.3) |
34.1 (93.4) |
36.6 (97.9) |
35.9 (96.6) |
34.7 (94.5) |
25.6 (78.1) |
17.6 (63.7) |
14.9 (58.8) |
36.6 (97.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 0.1 (32.2) |
1.6 (34.9) |
6.3 (43.3) |
13.7 (56.7) |
19.0 (66.2) |
22.1 (71.8) |
24.4 (75.9) |
24.1 (75.4) |
18.5 (65.3) |
12.1 (53.8) |
5.6 (42.1) |
1.5 (34.7) |
12.4 (54.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −2.3 (27.9) |
−1.2 (29.8) |
2.3 (36.1) |
8.4 (47.1) |
13.4 (56.1) |
16.6 (61.9) |
18.7 (65.7) |
18.3 (64.9) |
13.4 (56.1) |
8.0 (46.4) |
3.1 (37.6) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
8.2 (46.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −4.7 (23.5) |
−3.9 (25.0) |
−1.2 (29.8) |
3.4 (38.1) |
7.9 (46.2) |
11.2 (52.2) |
13.4 (56.1) |
13.0 (55.4) |
8.8 (47.8) |
4.6 (40.3) |
1.0 (33.8) |
−2.9 (26.8) |
4.2 (39.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −31.2 (−24.2) |
−27.2 (−17.0) |
−21.9 (−7.4) |
−6.5 (20.3) |
−5.0 (23.0) |
0.5 (32.9) |
3.7 (38.7) |
3.0 (37.4) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−8.8 (16.2) |
−19.1 (−2.4) |
−26.8 (−16.2) |
−31.2 (−24.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 35.0 (1.38) |
29.4 (1.16) |
32.0 (1.26) |
32.6 (1.28) |
56.7 (2.23) |
67.6 (2.66) |
75.6 (2.98) |
56.9 (2.24) |
55.1 (2.17) |
43.6 (1.72) |
37.9 (1.49) |
39.4 (1.55) |
561.9 (22.12) |
| Average extreme snow depth cm (inches) | 8.5 (3.3) |
8.0 (3.1) |
4.7 (1.9) |
0.8 (0.3) |
0.1 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.1 (0.0) |
1.8 (0.7) |
4.9 (1.9) |
8.5 (3.3) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 17.60 | 14.90 | 13.57 | 11.87 | 12.90 | 13.03 | 13.40 | 13.10 | 11.67 | 13.17 | 15.33 | 17.33 | 167.87 |
| Average snowy days (≥ 0 cm) | 18.4 | 16.4 | 7.7 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 3.6 | 11.5 | 58.5 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 90.1 | 86.9 | 79.3 | 69.4 | 70.0 | 72.0 | 73.0 | 72.9 | 79.7 | 85.5 | 91.5 | 92.0 | 80.2 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 38.7 | 58.7 | 118.2 | 183.5 | 241.8 | 234.8 | 238.7 | 227.9 | 151.6 | 96.0 | 36.1 | 26.9 | 1,652.9 |
| Source 1: Institute of Meteorology and Water Management[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Meteomodel.pl (records, relative humidity 1991–2020)[31][32][33] | |||||||||||||
Main sights
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Among the historic sights of Mława are the Baroque town hall, Gothic-Baroque Revival Holy Trinity Church, the Józef Piłsudski Park, Baroque Saint Lawrence Church and many Art Nouveau townhouses
Industry
editThere is a large LG factory manufacturing TV sets and monitors located in the city. Mława was the first site of deployment for CONVAERO Polska's Bio-Dry™ technology project, where an annual throughput of 96,000 tonnes of MSW shredded is processed to achieve a 25% reduction in moisture and results in an easily separated and recycled end material [34]
Sport
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Mława is home to Mławianka Mława, a men's football team, which played on the second tier in the 2004–2005 season.
International relations
editMława is twinned with:
People
edit- Victor Alter (1890–1943), socialist activist
- Tekla Bądarzewska (1829–1861), composer and pianist
- Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa (1897–1988), artist and teacher
- Eva Kotchever (1891–1943), feminist writer, was born in Mława
- Joseph Opatoshu (1886–1954), Yiddish novelist and short story writer
- Barbara Rogowska (born 1953), comedian actress and comic
- Grzegorz Skawiński (born 1954), pop-rock musician, guitarist, singer, composer and record producer
- Józef Skrobiński (1910–1979), film director and painter
- Iwona Sobotka (born 1981), opera singer and Grand Prix Winner of the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition
- Józef Unszlicht (1879–1938), revolutionary activist, co-founder of the Cheka
See also
edit- Bolesław Prus' novel, Pharaoh, partly inspired by 19 August 1887 solar eclipse viewed at Mława
- Mława pogrom
- Vistula River Railroad
References
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- ^ "Local history - Information about the town - Mława - Virtual Shtetl". Sztetl.org.pl. 1939-09-04. Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
- ^ Adolf Pawiński, Mazowsze, Warszawa 1895, p. 37 (in Polish)
- ^ Zieliński, Stanisław (1913). Bitwy i potyczki 1863-1864. Na podstawie materyałów drukowanych i rękopiśmiennych Muzeum Narodowego w Rapperswilu (in Polish). Rapperswil: Fundusz Wydawniczy Muzeum Narodowego w Rapperswilu. p. 251.
- ^ Kowalski, Andrzej (1995). "Miejsca pamięci związane z Bitwą Warszawską 1920 r.". Niepodległość i Pamięć (in Polish) (2/2 (3)). Muzeum Niepodległości w Warszawie: 142. ISSN 1427-1443.
- ^ Richard M. Watt, Bitter Glory: Poland and Its Fate, 1918–1939 Hippocrene Books, 1998. ISBN 0781806739.
- ^ Witold Kaczynski, Pozycja Mława. Zarys historyczny.
- ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 112.
- ^ Wardzyńska, p. 123
- ^ Wardzyńska, p. 111
- ^ Wardzyńska, p. 224, 228, 230-231
- ^ Wardzyńska, p. 236
- ^ "Arbeitserziehungslager Mielau". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ^ "Straf- bzw. Arbeitserziehungslager Mielau". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ^ Praca Zbiorowa (5 June 2012). "Nosarzewo Borowe : Truppenübungsplatz "Mielau"". Polska Niezwykła Mazowieckie (przewodnik) (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Demart publishing. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
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- ^ a b c d e Krzysztof Napierski (30 June 2011). "Mławski incydent dał nam doświadczenie na przyszłość" [The Mlawa incident gave us experience for the future] (reprint). Wywiad z Romanem Kwiatkowskim (Prezesem Stowarzyszenia Romów w Polsce) w "Głosie Mławy" (Interview with Roman Kwiatkowski, President of the Roma Society of Poland) for the "Voice of Mlawa" magazine. Stowarzyszenie Romow w Polsce (Roma Society of Poland, homepage). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ "Poles Vent Their Economic Rage on Gypsies". The New York Times. July 25, 1991. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
- ^ "Hooligans and the Neighbors' Cow". New York Times. July 29, 1991. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
- ^ Kottek, Markus; Grieser, Jürgen; Beck, Christoph; Rudolf, Bruno; Rubel, Franz (2006). "World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated" (PDF). Meteorologische Zeitschrift. 15 (3): 259–263. Bibcode:2006MetZe..15..259K. doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0130.
- ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson B. L. & McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen–Geiger climate classification" (PDF). Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606.
- ^ "Średnia dobowa temperatura powietrza". Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 (in Polish). Institute of Meteorology and Water Management. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ "Średnia minimalna temperatura powietrza". Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 (in Polish). Institute of Meteorology and Water Management. Archived from the original on 15 January 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ "Średnia maksymalna temperatura powietrza". Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 (in Polish). Institute of Meteorology and Water Management. Archived from the original on 15 January 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ "Miesięczna suma opadu". Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 (in Polish). Institute of Meteorology and Water Management. Archived from the original on 9 January 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ "Liczba dni z opadem >= 0,1 mm". Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 (in Polish). Institute of Meteorology and Water Management. Archived from the original on 15 January 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ "Średnia grubość pokrywy śnieżnej". Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 (in Polish). Institute of Meteorology and Water Management. Archived from the original on 15 January 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ "Liczba dni z pokrywą śnieżna > 0 cm". Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 (in Polish). Institute of Meteorology and Water Management. Archived from the original on 21 January 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ "Średnia suma usłonecznienia (h)". Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 (in Polish). Institute of Meteorology and Water Management. Archived from the original on 15 January 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
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External links
edit- Jewish Community in Mława on Virtual Shtetl
- Mława, Poland at JewishGen
- MKS Mlawa
