Wysokie Mazowieckie

Wysokie Mazowieckie
Town Hall
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Wysokie Mazowieckie Wysokie Mazowieckie
Coordinates: 52°55′9″N 22°30′52″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Podlaskie
County	Wysokie Mazowieckie
Gmina	urban gmina
Government
• Mayor	Jarosław Siekierko
Area
• Total	15.24 km2 (5.88 sq mi)
Population  (2013)
• Total	9,503
• Density	620/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	18-200
Area code	+48 086
Car plates	BWM
Website	wysokiemazowieckie.pl

Wysokie Mazowieckie [vɨˈsɔkʲɛ mazɔˈvjɛt͡skʲɛ] is a town in north-eastern Poland, in Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the capital of Wysokie Mazowieckie County. Population is 10,034 as of 2005.

In town there is one of the biggest dairy companies in this part of Europe - "Mlekovita". in 2018, the city was among the richest municipalities in Poland, has ranked 11th in the country

Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie had been devastated in World War II. It was restored in 2006 and, protected by a fence, is maintained regularly by the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland. The Jewish cemetery contains a memorial to local Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. The memorial monument was vandalized in August 2012.

Saint John the Baptist Church

Sport

• Ruch Wysokie Mazowieckie - Polish football club

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland

Twin towns – Sister cities

Wysokie Mazowieckie is twinned with:

• Alpiarça, Portugal
• Mejshagola - Lithuania
• Wysokie - Belarus

Notable persons from Wysokie Mazowieckie

• Jerzy Barycki
• Jacek Bogucki
• Wojciech Borzuchowski
• Jacob Burck, born Yankel Bochkowsky
• Przemysław Czajkowski
• Jan Stanisław Jankowski
• Kazimierz Kamieński
• Jan Kucharzewski
• Łukasz Załuska

External links

• Official town webpage (Polish)
• Wysokie Mazowieckie Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Book (Yiddish, Hebrew & English)
• Wysokie-Mazowieckie Memorial Book
• We Remember Jewish Wysokie Mazowieckie