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}}Template:Main other Tykocin (Template:IPAc-pl; Template:Langx) is a small town in north-eastern Poland,Template:TERYT with 2,010 inhabitants (2012), located on the Narew river, in Białystok County in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is one of the oldest towns in the region, with its historic center designated a Historic Monument of Poland.<ref name=ph/>
HistoryEdit
Middle AgesEdit
The name of Tykocin was first mentioned in the 11th century. Through the 14th century, it was a castellany in the Duchy of Masovia on the border with pagan Lithuania. Tykocin received its city rights from prince Janusz I of Warsaw in 1425, but several months later, the settlement was transferred to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (within the Polish-Lithuanian Union) by the Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło. Shortly later, in around 1433, Duke Sigismund Kęstutaitis gave the town along with other surrounding villages to Jonas Gostautas, and it became the most important seat of the Lithuanian Gostautai noble family.
Early modern eraEdit
In the 1542, upon the death of Gostautai family's last member, the town was acquired by Polish king and Lithuanian Grand Prince Sigismund II Augustus<ref name=PWN>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> who had the medieval stronghold remodelled into a Renaissance castle. One of the largest arsenals of Poland was located in Tykocin.<ref name=PWN/> It subsequently became a royal town of the Polish Crown, located within the Podlaskie Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province. In 1572, Polish Renaissance writer Łukasz Górnicki was appointed starost of Tykocin by Sigismund II Augustus.<ref name=zg>Template:Cite book</ref> In the 16th and 17th centuries, Tykocin was granted new privileges by kings Stephen Báthory and Władysław IV Vasa.<ref name=AP>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Krzysztof Wiesiołowski, starost of Tykocin, founded a hospital and shelter for injured and disabled knights, one of the oldest of its kind in Europe.<ref name=zg/> Later on, the town was awarded to Hetman Stefan Czarniecki for his military service during the Swedish invasion of Poland<ref name=AP/> in 1661.<ref name=zg/> Afterwards, through the marriage of Czarniecki's daughters, it passed to the Branicki (Gryf coat-of-arms) family. From 1513 until the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, Tykocin was a county (powiat) seat.
It was Tykocin, where in 1705, King Augustus II the Strong established the Order of the White Eagle, the highest and oldest Polish order.<ref name=AP/><ref>Tomasz Święcki, Opis starożytnéy Polski, tom I, Zawadzki i Węcki, Warszawa, 1816, p. 420–421 (in Polish)</ref>
Most of Tykocin's landmarks was built in this era, including the Holy Trinity Church, monasteries of the Congregation of the Mission and the Bernardines, the former 17th-century military hospital, the synagogue and the statue of hetman Stefan Czarniecki.<ref name=AP/>
Late modern era and recent timesEdit
Following the Partitions of Poland Tykocin was annexed by Prussia<ref name=PWN/> and Izabella Poniatowska-Branicka sold the town to the Prussian government in 1795. In 1807, it was briefly regained by Poles as part of the Duchy of Warsaw in accordance to the Treaty of Tilsit.<ref name=PWN/> In 1815, it became part of the Congress Kingdom of Poland,<ref name=PWN/> later on forcibly annexed by Imperial Russia.
During the November Uprising, on 21 May 1831, Polish insurgents won a battle against the Russians at Tykocin.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After the massacres of Polish protesters committed by the Russians in Warsaw in 1861, Polish demonstrations and clashes with Russian soldiers took place in Tykocin.<ref name=km9>Template:Cite book</ref> Shortly after the outbreak of the January Uprising, Tykocin was the site of a battle between Polish insurgents and Russian troops on 24–25 January 1863.<ref name=km9/> During the uprising, Tykocin was attacked by a Cossack unit led by Captain Dmitriyev, who forced the populace to sign a request to the tsarist administration to make him the town's military superior.<ref>Katalog miejsc pamięci powstania styczniowego w województwie podlaskim, p. 14-15</ref> In this way, he obtained office, and then committed macabre murders of the inhabitants.<ref name=km15>Katalog miejsc pamięci powstania styczniowego w województwie podlaskim, p. 15</ref> Dmitryev's cruelty even caused the Russians themselves to report him to the tsarist authorities, but he was only fined.<ref name=km15/>
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Tykocin was reintegrated with Poland after the country regained independence after World War I in 1918. During the interwar period, the population of Tykocin had reached an estimated 4,000 inhabitants.
During World War II, it was occupied by the Soviets from 1939 to 1941 and the Germans from 1941 to 1944.<ref name=PWN/> The Jewish population of Tykocin, estimated at 2,000 people, was eradicated by Nazi Germans during the Holocaust. On 25–26 August 1941, the Jewish residents of Tykocin were assembled at the market square for "relocation", and then marched and trucked by the Nazis into the nearby Łopuchowo forest,<ref name=g-pl>Template:In lang "Rocznica zagłady żydowskiego Tykocina," Template:Webarchive (commemoration) Gazeta Wyborcza Białystok, 24 August 2009</ref><ref name=kir>Tykocin na mapie polskich judaików, at www.kirkuty.xip.pl</ref> where they were executed in waves into pits by SS Einsatzkommando Zichenau-Schroettersburg under SS-Obersturmführer Hermann Schaper.<ref name=A-R>Alexander B. Rossino, "Contextualizing Anti-Jewish Violence in the Białystok District during the Opening Weeks of Operation Barbarossa", Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 16 (2003)</ref> A memorial now exists outside the town for the Tykocin pogrom.
In 1950, Tykocin lost its town rights due to population loss in World War II, only to regain it in 1993. From 1975 to 1998, it was administratively located in the former Białystok Voivodeship.
Points of interestEdit
Tykocin contains a preserved historic center listed as a Historic Monument of Poland.<ref name=ph>Template:Cite Polish law</ref> Notable heritage sights and points of interest include:
- Tykocin Castle built before 1469, extended in 16th century and partially reconstructed in 2005
- The Baroque Tykocin Synagogue Bejt ha-Kneset ha-Godol, built in 1642, one of the best preserved in Poland from that period and a major tourist attraction.
- A baroque Church of the Holy Trinity and former monastery of Congregation of Mission founded in 1742 by Jan Klemens Branicki
- Baroque Bernardine Monastery from 1771–90
- Monument of hetman Stefan Czarniecki from 1763<ref name=AP/>
- Former military hospital from 1633–1647, the Alumnat, one of the oldest of its kind in Europe, now a hotel
- Baroque manor house Rezydencja ekonomiczna, currently the Center of Culture, Sport and Tourism
- 17th-century memorial to Renaissance poet Łukasz Górnicki erected by his sons
- Catholic cemetery, dating back to the 18th century
- Jewish cemetery – one of the oldest in Poland
- Monument of the White Eagle from 1982, referring to the establishment of the Order of the White Eagle in Tykocin in 1705<ref name=AP/>
- Abundance of white storks and their nests in the area
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18th-century statue of hetman Stefan Czarniecki
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Church of the Holy Trinity and Narew River Bridge
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Church of the Holy Trinity
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Main altar at Holy Trinity
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Great Synagogue and Little Synagogue
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Former 17th-century military hospital, now a hotel and restaurant
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Bernardine Monastery
TransportEdit
The Voivodeship road 671 runs through Tykocin and links it with the S8 highway, which passes nearby, south of the town.
Notable individualsEdit
- Joshua Höschel ben Joseph, a Polish rabbi born in Wilno
- Jan Klemens Branicki, Field Crown Hetman of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Bolesław Gebert, Communist Party official
- Łukasz Górnicki, Renaissance writer, Chancellor of Sigismund Augustus of Poland
- Michał Jankowski (1842–1912), Polish insurgent against Russian rule, sybirak, naturalist
- Mikołaj Ostroróg, a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman
- Bogusław Radziwiłł, an Imperial Prince of the Holy Roman Empire
- Janusz Radziwiłł (1612–1655), Polish prince, magnate and Field Hetman of Lithuania
- Paweł Jan Sapieha, Hetman and military commander
- Jan Smółko (b. 1907, AK alias Lokalizator), wife Władysława (b. 1908), Polish Righteous among the Nations – produced over a hundred fake IDs for Tykocin Jews during World War II, based on Catholic parish records.
- Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner (d. 1550)
- Krzysztof Wiesiołowski, nobleman, starost of Tykocin
- Mark Zamenhof (1837–1907), teacher, father of L. L. Zamenhof
ReferencesEdit
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External linksEdit
- Tykocin on the map of Poland, at www.pilot.pl
- Tykocin Synagogue photos, at ddickerson.igc.org
- "Tykocin – news, photos... all about this beautiful town," at www.tykocin1425.az.pl.
- Plac Czarnieckiego 10 Anthropological project: art, history and heritage of Tykocin.
- photos of Tykocin castle and events