Spała

Village in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

51°32′28″N 20°8′17″E / 51.54111°N 20.13806°E / 51.54111; 20.13806Country

PolandVoivodeship

Łódź County Tomaszów MazowieckiGminaInowłódzPopulation

(2011)

484

Spała [ˈspawa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Inowłódz, within Tomaszów Mazowiecki County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies on the Pilica River, approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Inowłódz, 9 km (6 mi) east of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, and 54 km (34 mi) south-east of the regional capital Łódź.^[1] The village gives its name to the protected area called Spała Landscape Park.

Notable occurrences

Spala was the location of a hunting lodge owned by Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. In 1912 Grigori Rasputin allegedly healed the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, who suffered from haemophilia, from a near-fatal hemorrhage.^[2]
Spała was the site of the Central European Jamboree in 1935, and of the International Young Physicists' Tournament in 1995.

Sport

The village is the site of the Olympic Preparation Centre, which is a professional training base for national and Olympic teams of many disciplines. The sports indoor arena was built in 1988 and is among the biggest ones in Poland.^[3]

Demographics

Demographic structure as of 31 March 2011^[4]
	In general	Pre-working age	Working age	Post-working age
Male	238	52	156	30
Female	201	41	136	69
Both	484	93	292	99

Gallery

Nicholas II in Spała, 1912
Tsar's Tower
Chapel of the Holy Virgin Mary, the Queen of the Polish Crown
Olympic Preparation Centre Indoor Arena in Spała

References

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ Massie, Robert (1967). Nicholas and Alexandria. New York: Ballantine Books. pp. 180–189. ISBN 9780345438317.
^ "Olympic Sports Centre in Spala". Retrieved 7 March 2021.
^ GUS. "Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku. Stan w dniu 31.03.2011 r." stat.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-11-01.