Sochaczew

Sochaczew
Coat of arms
Sochaczew
Coordinates: 52°14′N 20°14′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	Sochaczew County
Gmina	Sochaczew (urban gmina)
Town rights	1368
Government
• Mayor	Piotr Osiecki
Area
• Total	26.13 km2 (10.1 sq mi)
Elevation	81 m (266 ft)
Population (2007)
• Total	37,910
• Density	1,450.8/km2 (3,757.6/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	96-500 to 96-503
Area code(s)	+48 46
Vehicle registration plates	WSC
Website	http://www.sochaczew.pl

Sochaczew [sɔˈxat​͡ʂɛf] (Yiddish: סאכאטשאוו) is a town in central Poland, with 38,300 inhabitants (2004). Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Skierniewice Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Sochaczew County.

Sochaczew has a narrow-gauge railway museum with a line that runs out as far as Wilcze Tułowskie. Steam trains run back and forth on the line on Saturdays from spring to the end of summer. Although the line is 750 mm (29.53 in) gauge, there is a number of static exhibits in the museum of narrower and broader gauge.

Education

• Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania i Marketingu

Famous people

• Fryderyk Chopin - composer and pianist (1810–1849)
• Wladyslaw Komendarek - musician
• Bogusław Liberadzki - MEP - born 1948 in Sochaczew
• Avrohom Bornsztain (the Avnei Nezer) - first Rebbe of Sochatchov
• Shmuel Bornsztain (the Shem Mishmuel) - Second Rebbe of Sochatchov

Museums

Sochaczew has 3 museums:

• Muzeum Ziemi Sochaczewskiej i Pola Bitwy nad Bzurą (historic museum which has props from the battle which was in Sochaczew by the river Bzura in 1939)
• Muzeum Kolei Wąskotorowej w Sochaczewie (museum which has trains that use narrow tracks)
• Fryderyk's Chopin Museum and House in Żelazowa Wola

External links

• Sochaczew
• e-Sochaczew
• sochaczewianin
• Museum of Sochaczew County and Bzura's Battlefield
• Sochaczew Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Book (Yiddish & Hebrew)
• WSZiM

Polish cavalry in Sochaczew, in 1939