Sochaczew

Sochaczew is a city in significant Poland, with 38,300 inhabitants 2004. In the Masovian Voivodeship, formerly in Skierniewice Voivodeship 1975 to 1998. It is the capital of Sochaczew County. Sochaczew has a narrow gauge railway museum with a line that runs as a ways as Wilcze Tulowskie. 750 mm gauge steam trains run on the road on Saturdays from spring to the give up of summer time. Sochaczew became first stated in files from 1138, while the Duke of Poland Boleslaw III Wrymouth died at a local Benedictine monastery. By 1221 Sochaczew had already been an essential center of administration, and a seat of a castellan, which lived in a shielding gord.

The metropolis prospered because of its vicinity at the intersection of primary service provider routes from Kalisz to Ciechanow, and from Warsaw to Poznan. In the first half of the 13^th century, production of two church buildings started; both had been completed and consecrated by means of the Bishop of Plock in 1257. Sometime in the mid 14^th century, Duke Siemowit III, Duke of Masovia held rights here a assembly of Mazovian dukes and notables.