Wohyń

Wohyń
Village
Church of Saint Anne
Wohyń
Coordinates: 51°45′N 22°47′E / 51.750°N 22.783°E / 51.750; 22.783
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lublin
County	Radzyń Podlaski
Gmina	Wohyń
Population
• Total	2,000
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	LRA

Wohyń [ˈvɔxɨɲ] is a village in Radzyń Podlaski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.^[1] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Wohyń.

History

Saint Anne church in 1914

It was granted town rights in 1522.^[2] The town was annexed by Austria in the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. After the Polish victory in the Austro-Polish War of 1809, it became part of the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, and after the duchy's dissolution in 1815, it fell to the Russian Partition of Poland. In 1869, the Tsarist authorities revoked the town rights as punishment for the unsuccessful Polish January Uprising.^[2] Following World War I, Poland regained independence and control of Wohyń.

During the German invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, on 9 September 1939, the German Luftwaffe carried out an air raid on Wohyń, killing several residents.^[3] Later on, Wohyń was occupied by Nazi Germany until 1944.

Demographics

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1810 1,324 —     1825 1,181 −10.8% 1857 1,861 +57.6% 1868 2,260 +21.4%	Year Pop. ±% 1890 2,898 +28.2% 1897 2,768 −4.5% 1910 3,877 +40.1%
Source: [4]

References

1. "Główny Urząd Statystyczny" [Central Statistical Office] (in Polish). To search: Select "Miejscowości (SIMC)" tab, select "fragment (min. 3 znaki)" (minimum 3 characters), enter town name in the field below, click "WYSZUKAJ" (Search).
2. Krzysztofik, Robert (2007). Lokacje miejskie na obszarze Polski. Dokumentacja geograficzno-historyczna (in Polish). Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego. pp. 82–83. ISBN 978-83-226-1616-1.
3. "Plac 9 Września 1939 roku w Wohyniu" (in Polish). 19 October 2024. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
4. Dokumentacja Geograficzna (in Polish). Vol. 3/4. Warszawa: Instytut Geografii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1967. p. 58.