Tłuszcz (

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: ''Tluschtsch'') is a town in

Wołomin County __FORCETOC__ Wołomin County ( pl, powiat wołomiński) is a territorial and administrative division in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1 ...

Masovian Voivodeship The Masovian Voivodeship, also known as the Mazovia Province ( pl, województwo mazowieckie ) is a voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, with its capital located in the city of Warsaw, which also serves as the capital of the country. Th ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

, with 8,015 inhabitants (2014). Tłuszcz is an important railway junction.

History

Tłuszcz was founded in the 15th century. It was a royal village of Poland, administratively located in the

Nur Land Nur Land (Polish: ziemia nurska), named after the town (now a village) of Nur, was an administrative unit ( ziemia) of the Duchy of Mazovia, Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. With its capital in Nur, it belonged to Masovi ...

in the

in the Greater Poland Province. During the

Polish–Soviet War The Polish–Soviet War (Polish–Bolshevik War, Polish–Soviet War, Polish–Russian War 1919–1921) * russian: Советско-польская война (''Sovetsko-polskaya voyna'', Soviet-Polish War), Польский фронт (' ...

, in the night of 12–13 August 1920, Tłuszcz was the scene of a skirmish between the Poles and the invading Russians, part of the Battle of Warsaw (1920).

Notable Crimes

The Tłuszcz Rapist

In the year 1783, a man named Alexander Gattner, who migrated from

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

, Raped approximately 32 women and 23 men. He was only caught after the mask he used to conceal his identity slipped and his victim noticed him. He was then sentenced to death in May of 1788.

References

External links

Official town and commune webpage

Jewish Community in Tłuszcz
on Virtual Shtetl
Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship Wołomin County Warsaw Governorate Warsaw Voivodeship (1919–1939) 15th-century establishments in Poland Populated places established in the 15th century {{Masovian-geo-stub