Sidra is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Sokółka County __NOTOC__ Sokółka County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. It was created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local govern ...

Podlaskie Voivodeship Podlaskie Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship in northeastern Poland. The name of the voivodeship refers to the historical region of Podlachia (in Polish, ''Podlasie''), and significant part of its territory corresponds to th ...

, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...

(administrative district) called Gmina Sidra. It lies approximately north of

Sokółka Sokółka (; , ) is a town in northeastern Poland, seat of the Sokółka County in Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is a busy rail junction located on the international Warsaw–Białystok–Grodno line, with additional connections which go to Suwałki a ...

and north of the regional capital

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the List of cities and towns in Poland, tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Biał ...

. A Jewish population of 455 existed in the village in 1921. The wooden synagogue built at the turn of the 17th & 18th centuries was burned down by the Germans in 1942. The bastion castle in Sidra was built around 1566, funded by the great Lithuanian chancellor Eustachy Wołłowicz, on the site of the wooden fortified manor house of the Radziwiłł and Gasztołd families. The castle, surrounded by auxiliary buildings and a wooden defensive perimeter, was destroyed during the Swedish War. In the mid-17th century, the residence was rebuilt into a palace by the Potocki family. A two-bay brick building with dimensions of 14 × 31.2 meters was then built, with a tower added to the north and a polygonal avant-corps at the western wall. The next reconstructions took place in the 18th and 19th centuries, carried out by the Szczuk and Potocki families. The residence was finally destroyed in the 19th century and today only fragments of the foundations, the basement and the ruins of the bastion, now covered with sheet metal, remain. Archaeological research was carried out in 1970–71. The relics of the building are located on the so-called castle hill. located in the south-eastern part of the town, between Szkolna and Kościelna street
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