Lubartów (Polish pronunciation: [luˈbartuf]) is a town in eastern Poland, with 23,000 inhabitants (2004), situated in Lublin Voivodeship.
In 1559, Wojciech Calissius founded a Protestant school in the town, which was one of centers of Calvinism in Lesser Poland in the late 16th century.
Mikołaj Firlej invited a number of skilled artisans from France, Germany and Holland, as well as cattle breeders.
In the early 18th century it belonged to the Sanguszko family, who rebuilt the palace, built two Baroque churches and tenement houses.
Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany.
[3] In June 1940, during the AB-Aktion, the Germans carried out mass arrests of around 500 Poles, who were then imprisoned in Lublin, and many of whom were soon deported to the Sachsenhausen and Auschwitz concentration camps.
[5] From its foundation until World War II, the town also had a large Jewish community, numbering nearly half of the population in the 1930s.
In 1693 architect Tylman van Gameren created a plan for rebuilding of the palace for Józef Karol Lubomirski, and in 1705, the complex was partially burned during the Great Northern War.
Another interesting object are: Baroque St. Anne Basilica (1733-1738), and the monastery of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin with the St. Lawrence Church (1737-1741).
Among the protected traditional local foods, as designated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland, are: Lubartów is twinned with: