Rzgów is a town in Łódź East County,

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, in central

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, with 3,382 inhabitants (2020). It is situated on the Ner River within the

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. The town is a member of Cittaslow.

History

It was incorporated as a town in 1467. It was a private church town, administratively located in the Piotrków County in the

Sieradz Voivodeship Sieradz Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975–1998, superseded by Łódź Voivodeship. A Voivodeship is an area administered by a voivode (Governor), and the Sieradz Voivodesh ...

in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1870 it was downgraded to a village. In 1469, the

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Cathedral Chapter built the Saint Stanislaus church. In the interwar period, it was administratively located in the

of Poland. According to the 1921 census, the population was 96.0% Polish and 4.0%

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. Following the joint German-Soviet

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, which started

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in September 1939, Rzgów was occupied by Germany until 1945. In July 1940, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, who were deported to a transit camp in

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and then to the Lublin District in the more-eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses were handed over to

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colonists as part of the ''

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'' policy. On January 1, 2006 it became a town again.

Demographics

Climate

Rzgów has a humid continental climate (''Cfb'' in the

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References

{{Authority control Cities and towns in Łódź Voivodeship Łódź East County Cittaslow Populated riverside places in Poland