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20-403: Sierpc is a member of Cittaslow . In the 10th century Sierpc was a stronghold of early Piast -ruled Poland. According to tradition, a church was built in 1003. The oldest known mention of Sierpc comes from 1155. In 1322 Sierpc received town rights . The town then was a property of Płock bishops . Its name is of Polish origin, and comes either from the word sierp (" sickle ") and the name of

40-826: A Cittaslow city (and the first in the English-speaking world) was Ludlow in November 2003; the first in Wales was Mold . There are currently three towns in the UK that are members. By 2007, several slow cities had been introduced across South Korea . Pijao , a small town in Colombia , is to become the first Cittaslow city in Latin America . There are 50 goals and principles that each Cittaslow town commits to work to achieve. They serve as benchmarks to improve

60-561: A city's use of spaces and the flow of life and traffic through them. Cittaslow was founded in Italy in October 1999, following a meeting organised by the mayor of Greve in Chianti , Tuscany . A 54-point charter was developed, encouraging high quality local food and drink, general conviviality and the opposition to cultural standardisation. In 2001, 28 Italian towns were signed up to

80-442: A thatched roof. There are plenty of mysterious legends and stories about "Kasztelanka" and the adjoining Benedictine monastery which is connected to it via a corridor. The monastery is more massive and solid, indicating it may have had a defensive purpose, perhaps against a Swedish attack. It is located at the intersection of the national road No 10, which connects Warsaw and Toruń , and voivodeship roads No 541 and 560. Sierpc

100-475: Is a membership organisation. Full membership of Cittaslow is only open to towns with a population under 50,000. To become eligible for membership, a town must normally score at least 50 percent in a self-assessment process against the set of Cittaslow goals, and then apply for admission to the appropriate Cittaslow national network. An annual membership fee is payable by towns. The first town in England to become

120-443: Is a rail junction of local importance, where two lines cross: Kutno - Brodnica and Nasielsk -Toruń. The Kasztelan brewery is located in the town. The 199950 Sierpc asteroid is named after the town. Cittaslow Cittaslow is an organisation founded in Italy and inspired by the slow food movement. Cittaslow's goals include improving the quality of life in towns by slowing down its overall pace, especially in

140-456: Is made up of 11 farms (houses - cabins, barns, cowsheds, granaries , pigsties), an inn, a blacksmith 's workshop, an oil - mill, a windmill , a manor house , a small chapel and a wooden church. Everything was collected from different regions of Masovia. The architecture of houses reminds that from 19th or early 20th century. Also inside the houses there are pieces of furniture, utensils, equipment and hand-made decorations which are appropriate to

160-630: The Polish–Soviet War , on August 12, 1920, the town was captured by the Soviets, who plundered it and occupied it for several days. In 1921 Sierpc's population of 6,722 included 2,861 (42.5%) Jews. During World War II from 1939 to 1945 Sierpc was under German occupation . It was then renamed to Sichelberg to remove traces of Polish origin The Germans established a prison for Poles in the town. Dozens of local disabled people were murdered by

180-648: The Sierpienica river, or from the old Polish given names Wszepraw/Siepraw or Sierpek. In 1509 Polish King Sigismund I the Old granted the local cloth manufacturers a "protective make", placed on a lead seal on a cloth base, this privilege was given to the most significant towns. Administratively it was located in the Płock Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province . In the 17th century, there

200-894: The Germans in March 1940 in the nearby Troska forest. On April 5, 1940 the Germans carried out mass arrests of about 600 Poles in the town and the county, who were then imprisoned in two local prisons. Local priest Bronisław Kolator was among Polish priests murdered in the Soldau concentration camp (see Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland ). About 2,000 Poles were expelled from Sierpc in February 1940, and another 400 were expelled in December 1940. People were first deported to

220-663: The North American continent's first Cittaslow town. In June 2011, Gökçeada in Turkey became the first and only Cittaslow island. Nearly a decade later in October 2020, Izmir , Turkey 's 3rd metropolitan municipality, has become The First Cittaslow Metropolis of the World. There are three categories of membership: Cittaslow town (population less than 50,000); Cittaslow Supporter (population more than 50,000); and Cittaslow Friend (individual or family). Like Slow Food, Cittaslow

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240-689: The Soldau concentration camp and afterwards to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses and workshops were handed over to German colonists in accordance to the Lebensraum policy. A German forced labour camp was operated in the town. As part of the Holocaust , the Germans destroyed Sierpc's Jewish community. On 8 Nov 1939, the Jews of

260-561: The epoch. Each season there are exhibitions devoted to traditional Masovian customs i.e. "Christmas in Mazovie Region", "Easter in Mazovie Region". Also children can find something interesting for them : "Palm Sunday in Skansen museum", "Sunday in Skansen museum", "Cooking in the middle of the glade", "Children's Day in Skansen museum", "Honey harvest in Skansen museum" or "Harvest season in Skansen museum". A few movies have used

280-541: The museum as a location. The most famous are: Pan Tadeusz , Ogniem i mieczem and Szwadron . The church was built in the 16th century. At the beginning it was a chapel near a hospital. The church was built in the Gothic style and later rebuilt in Baroque style. A fire in 17th century destroyed the church completely and after second rebuilt it lost its original form. The most valuable relic, not only of church but of

300-618: The pledge, certified by trained operatives of Cittaslow. The first Slow City in the English-speaking world was Ludlow , England , in 2003. The movement expanded broadly beyond Italy and, by 2006, national Cittaslow networks existed in Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom. By mid-2009, fourteen countries had at least one officially accredited Cittaslow community. In July 2009, the small seaside village of Cowichan Bay in Canada became

320-517: The town are pieces of paintings from the Middle Ages and a sculpture from the 16th century "Generosity's Throne" made by the pupils of Veit Stoss . Now it's in main altar . The manor house was built at the turn of the 17th and 18th century and, undoubtedly, it is one of the most important monuments in the Sierpc area and the oldest architectonic laic object in the town. It is a timber house with

340-514: The town were deported to ghettoes from which they were eventually sent to Nazi concentration camps . During the Holocaust, approximately five thousand Jews from Sierpc and its environs were murdered. An organization of Jewish Holocaust survivors from Sierpc compiled a large compendium of testimony on Jewish life in Sierpc before the war, relationships between the Jewish and Polish communities in

360-548: The town, and the horrors which the Jews of Sierpc suffered in the Holocaust. It is an open-air museum and is located in the suburbs of Sierpc in the valley of the Sierpienica River and its confluence with the Skrwa Prawa . Though it looks like a separate and independent village because of its great area (about 60.5 hectares) and because it is fenced, the museum is included within the town's borders. The village

380-556: Was a sizeable Scottish community in Sierpc. In 1793 the town started to fall into decline, it was annexed by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland . In 1807 regained by Poles, it became part of the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw , and in 1815 it became part of Congress Poland , later on forcibly integrated into the Russian Empire . In 1831, after the unsuccessful Polish November Uprising against Russia, Sierpc

400-553: Was destroyed during military operations and a plague, but started to recover slowly. During the January Uprising , on February 8, 1863, the town was captured by Polish insurgents and then recaptured by the Russians. In 1867 Sierpc regained a position of a district town. Start of the time of a fast economic development. After World War I , in 1918, Poland regained independence and Sierpc was reintegrated with Poland. During

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