Szreńsk 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 ...
in
Mława County
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Mława County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. ...
,
Masovian Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw.
Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...
, in north-central 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 Szreńsk
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Gmina Szreńsk is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Mława County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Szreńsk, approximately south-west of Mława and north-west of Warsaw.
The gmina cover ...
. It lies approximately south-west of
Mława
Mława (; ''Mlave'') is a town in north-eastern Poland with 30,403 inhabitants in 2020. It is the capital of Mława County. It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship.
During the invasion of Poland in 1939, the battle of Mława was fought to the ...
and north-west of
Warsaw
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.
History
In 1383 Duke
Siemowit IV granted
Chełmno law
Kulm law, Culm law or Chełmno Law (; ; ) was a legal constitution for a municipal form of government used in several Central European cities in the Middle Ages and early modern period.
It was initiated on 28 December 1233 in the Monastic State o ...
town rights.
[ It was a ]private town
Private towns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth were privately owned towns within the lands owned by magnates, bishops, knights and princes, among others.
Amongst the most well-known former private magnate towns are Białystok, Zamość, R ...
and seat of the Szreński noble family
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of Dołęga coat of arms
Dołęga (pronunciation: ) is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Blazon
"''Azure'', a downward opened horse-shoe ''argent'' with a cross former of the same charge ...
, administratively located in the Płock Voivodeship
Płock (pronounced ), officially the Ducal Capital City of Płock, is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. According to the data provided by Central Statistical Office (Poland), GUS on 31 December 2021, the ...
in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. Feliks Szreński, voivode of Płock, built a castle at the site of the old stronghold.
Notable people
* Martin Rosenberg (1890-1942), musician, victim of the Holocaust.
References
External links
Jewish Community in Szreńsk
on Virtual Shtetl
Villages in Mława County
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