Horse-riding

The name of Konskowol comes from the word "Will", which means a kind of village and the name of its owner Jan Koninski. For the first time, the name Koninskavol was found in 1442 .

The village was founded around the 14th century under the names of Vitovsk Vol, then the name was changed to Koninskavol and acquired a modern sound in the 19th century .

Since June 8, 1532 it is considered a city. Konskavol was the center of food trade for adjacent territories, there were also several textile factories here. People migrated here from different parts of Poland and from Saxony .

In the future, the history of Konskovoli coincides with the history of the region. After the third partition of Poland, the city moved to Austria in 1795 . In 1809 it became part of the Duchy of Warsaw , called the Kingdom of Poland in 1815 . After the January uprising , in 1870 , Konskowola finally lost the status of the city. During the 1905 Revolution in Russia , many demonstrations and solidarity strikes were organized here. Since 1918 it is again part of Poland.

At the beginning of World War II , on September 15, 1939 , Konskavol was occupied by Germany. A prisoner of war camp was built here, soon liquidated, and a concentration camp , which lasted until 1943 . The prisoners worked on local farms for Germany and on road construction.

A ghetto was formed in the town, in which Jews were settled, including those brought from Slovakia . On May 8, 1942, the Nazis held a rally during which many Jews were captured and transported to the Sobibor concentration camp . In October 1942, the ghetto population was destroyed. The German reserve police battalion 101 staged a massacre. Approximately 1,000 Jews, including women and children, were taken to the nearest forest and killed. The remaining were taken to another camp.

With the approach of Soviet troops in the summer of 1944, the Germans wanted to burn the city. On July 25, 1944, German troops fought with detachments of the underground Polish Army Craiova and the partisan detachments of the Khlopsky Battalions that joined them. Together with the advancing forces of the Red Army, anti-fascists managed to free the land.

The most famous attraction is the Catholic Church with the graves of the Opalinsky and Lubomirsky families and tombstones designed by Tylman of Gameren , and another church built in the style of the Lublin Renaissance in 1613 . There is also a Lutheran cemetery.

Konskavola is also known for the fact that Franciszek Zablotsky and Franciszek Dioniza Knyaznin died here .

• History of the village of Konskovol
• Horse-riding during the war
• Lists transported to Sobibor