RACIG

The city is located on the Racia Plain, over Raciążnica (right tributary of the Wkra river) and its tributary Karśnica. Ok. 4900 inhabitant. The seat of the commune and commune offices. Food industry center (dairy – launched in 1974 r., then the largest milk processing plant in Poland; milling plants).

Mentioned as the seat of the castellany of 1065 r. in the so-called. Mogilno falsification by W. 1404 r. a congress took place here, on which King Władysław Jagiełło made a pact with the Teutonic Knights, on the basis of which the Dobrzyń land returned to the Crown. W 1425 r. Raciaz – then a market settlement – received city rights in Chełmno. Initially, the city was owned by the Dukes of Mazovia, and after joining the Duchy of Płock to the Crown, it passed into royal hands. W XV w. seat of the poviat, the land sejm and the place of sejmiks. W 1512 r. As a result of the exchange, Raciąż became the property of the Płock bishops (king Zygmunt I the Old received Kockie goods in return). Heyday in the 16th century. as a craft center (pottery, milling). Destroyed during the Swedish wars. From 1795 r. in the Prussian partition. In years 1807-15 in the Duchy of Warsaw. In years 1815-1918 in the composition of the Kingdom of Poland. W 2 half. XIX w. the development of small industry caused a slight economic recovery. W 1869 r. loss of city rights. Raciąż then counted over 4500 residents. W 1922 r. restoration of city rights. W 1924 r. the standard-gauge railway line from Sierpc to Nasielsk via Raciąż was launched. It was created from the reconstruction of the narrow-gauge line built by the Germans during World War I.. W 1938 r. Raciąż was counting 5300 residents. During World War II, the Germans killed it 1600 local Jews.

The "Wodna Góra" stronghold located at the mouth of Karśnica to Raciążnica, to the north. zach. from city. Dated on the 10th-12th centuries. During research work in the 1960s,. the remains of wood and earth fortifications were found. The earth embankments were reinforced with a structure made of oak logs in a stone casing.

A clear urbanization layout with a trapezoidal market square. The current parish church. pw. Assumption of the Mother of God and St.. Wojciech Biskupa was built in 1876-86 designed by Józef Górski. The parish was erected here already in the 12th century. Neo-Gothic, brick, three-nave, two-tower facade. Interior polychrome made in 1886 year by Czesław Czarnecki. Some of the furnishings are in the baroque style (18th century) and comes from the previous church. In the chapel there is an altar made in the 19th century, a painting depicting the Mother of God with the Child. A silver baroque dress is put on the painting. In his vicinity they are 2 votives from the eighteenth century. In the main neo-Gothic altar 3 paintings by Józef Buchbinder, from the end of the 19th century (Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Saint Dorothy; Saint Adalbert Bishop). In the vestibule of the church, the colonel's epitaph. Gracjan Drucki-Lubecki, commanders 4 Regiment of Szaserów, dead 23 July 1831 r. In the church cemetery, iron tombstones from 2 mid-nineteenth century. Near the church there is a statue of the Mother of God, on its pedestal a commemorative plaque dedicated to the victims of World War II.

Jewish synagogue (ul. Kiliński). After World War II, it was rebuilt into a school.

In the parish cemetery, there are graves of several Polish soldiers who died 4-5 September 1939 r.

Jewish cemetery, neglected.