History of the Municipality

Izabelin

Aerial view of fields and meadows in Izabelin under a blue sky
  • Asphalt road in Izabelin, with an information board at the “KOC I” airdrop zone

Izabelin was founded as a colony on land belonging to the Nieporęt estate. The contract with the settlers was signed on 6 May 1824, and the village’s name probably commemorates Izabela Lubomirska, the mother of the then owner of the estate, Aleksandra Potocka. The colonists cleared forests, drained the marshy ground and set up scattered farmsteads, whose layout has partly survived to this day.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a peat mine operated near Złodziejska Góra. It was served by a narrow-gauge railway from Struga, which was also used to carry passengers in season. During the German occupation, forced labour camps for Jews operated at the mine; their prisoners were murdered in 1942.

In 1943–1944 the Home Army’s “KOC I” airdrop zone operated on the Izabelin meadows. Today Izabelin is a quiet, scattered village which in 2024, together with Aleksandrów and Stanisławów Pierwszy, celebrated the 200th anniversary of its founding.

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