Klimontów, Sandomierz County

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For other places with the same name, see Klimontów.

Klimontów is a village in Poland, situated in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Sandomierz County. It is situated 30 km west from Sandomierz

From 1975 to 1998 it belonged to administratively to the Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship.

It is the capital of the Klimontów commune (gmina).

The village was founded by Jan Zbigniew Ossoliński in 1604.

Klimontów was the birthplace of Bruno Jasieński. Since 2002 Brunonalia festival, named after Jasieński, is held every summer in Klimontów.

During 1914 and 1915, there were bloody battles in the region between Austrian and Russian troops. Fallen Austrian soldiers were buried in a parish cemetery.

The settlement had 6000 inhabitants in 1921, but in 1939 it dropped to 4500. After the German atrocities and extermination of the Jewish population, the number of inhabitants fell to 2200 by 1946.

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