The Wieprz ( Polish: [ˈvjɛpʂ] , lit. ' "Boar" ' ; Ukrainian : Вепр , romanized : Vepr ) is a river in central-eastern Poland , and a tributary of the Vistula . It is the country's ninth longest river, with a total length of 349 km and a catchment area of 10,497 km , all within Poland. Its course near the town of Łęczna includes the protected area known as Wieprz Landscape Park .
6-662: Zwierzyniec ( Polish: [zvjɛˈʐɨɲɛt͡s] ) is a town on the Wieprz river in the Zamość County , Lublin Voivodeship , Poland . It has 3,324 inhabitants (2004). Zwierzyniec is the northernmost town of the Roztocze National Park . The park comprises some of the last remaining sections of the primordial forest of Central Europe , especially spectacular stand of ancient beech trees (Bukowa Gora). It also
12-689: A Jewish population of between 1,000 and 1,500 Jews. The first transport of Jews during the Holocaust , numbering approximately 52 Jews from Zwierzyniec, Rudka and other surrounding villages, was sent to a death camp in Bełżec in September 1942. A mass extermination of the Jewish population from Zwierzyniec started on October 21, 1942. Some of the Jews were shot dead on the spot; the remaining residents were sent to
18-680: Is a rail junction, located along the Rejowiec Fabryczny - Hrebenne - Munina connection, with a branch line going westwards, to Stalowa Wola , via Biłgoraj . The Zwierzyniec settlement was established in the 16th century by the Zamoyski family. One of the features here is an artificial lake with a number of small islands - one of them contains monuments of the hounds belonging to the Polish Queen Marysieńka Sobieska ( primo voto Zamoyska). On another island,
24-717: The Wieprz with its wide valley has not been regulated, its nature is very diverse. The meandering river with its oxbow lakes is inhabited by numerous birds, European otters and Eurasian beavers . During the Polish-Soviet War , units of the Polish 4th Army concentrated along the Wieprz, getting ready for the Battle of Warsaw . In September 1939, during the Invasion of Poland , the Battle of Tomaszow Lubelski took place by
30-962: The Zamoyskis built a baroque chapel, which became later the main church of the local Catholic parish. It is now known as the St John Nepomucene 's parish church - renovated and expanded in the early 1960s by father Dutkowski. The access to the chapel island is now via a bridge. During the occupation of Poland in World War Two, Nazi Germans set up a transit camp in Zwierzyniec for the province-wide Action Zamość . The camp processed 20,000-24,000 Poles, with many victims sent to death camps at Auschwitz and Majdanek . Race selections based on forcible abduction of children were conducted at Zwierzyniec. The term " Children of Zamojszczyzna " originates from this programme. The town also had
36-716: The railway station at Szczebrzeszyn , from where, together with the Szczebrzeszyn Jews, were sent to a death camp in Bełżec . Wieprz The river has its source in Lake Wieprz, in Wieprzów Tarnawacki near Tomaszow Lubelski , and flows into the Vistula near Dęblin . The Wieprz is connected to another river, the Krzna , through the 140-kilometer Wieprz-Krzna Canal, built in 1954-1961. Because
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