Łącko (Powiat Nowosądecki)

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Łącko
Coat of arms of Gmina Łącko
Łącko (Poland)
Łącko
Łącko
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : Nowosądecki
Gmina : Łącko
Geographic location : 49 ° 33 '  N , 20 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '30 "  N , 20 ° 26' 6"  E
Residents : 2875 (2007)
Postal code : 33-390
Telephone code : (+48) 18
License plate : KNS



Łącko ( German Wiesendorf ) is a village in the powiat Nowosądecki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name with a little over 16,300 inhabitants.

overview

geography

The place is located on the left bank of the Dunajec River , in an extension of the valley, between the Beskydy Island in the north and the Beskydy Sandets in the south. The neighboring towns are Maszkowice in the east, Czerniec and Zarzecze in the southwest, Zagorzyn in the northwest, and Kicznia and Czarny Potok in the north.

history

Bronze Age traces can be found in the nearby Góra Zyndrama .

The place was first mentioned in 1251 (copy 1634) as Lancsco . In 1257 Kinga received from Poland a large area around Stary Sącz (Alt Sandez) with Łącko. Later the village also belonged to the Poor Clares in Stary Sącz.

The village initially belonged to the Kingdom of Poland (from 1569 in the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania ), Krakow Voivodeship , Sącz District. After the First Partition of Poland , Łącko became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804). From 1855 Łącko belonged to the Nowy Sącz District .

In 1784, 75 German colonists of Catholic denomination were settled in the course of the Josephine colonization . One of the largest colonies in the area of ​​Neu Sandez was named Wiesendorf , later in Polish Łączka ( small meadow ) or Łączki (plural), but the local population mostly called it Niemiecka Wieś ( German village ). The colonists had relations with the neighboring colonies in Zagorzyn, Barcice or Gaboń . By the end of the 19th century, the colonists' descendants were Polonized. In 1900 the village had 1826 inhabitants, all of them Polish-speaking, 1612 Roman Catholic, 210 Jews, 4 of other faiths. The independent community Wiesendorf, Łączki had 254 inhabitants, all of whom were Polish- speaking and Roman Catholic.

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Łącko came to Poland. This was interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II , during which it belonged to the Generalgouvernement . From 1975 to 1998 Łącko was part of the Nowy Sącz Voivodeship .

local community

The rural community (gmina wiejska) Łącko includes 16 villages with school administration offices.

Web links

Commons : Łącko  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Tomasz Jurek (editor): ŁĄCKO ( pl ) In: Słownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziem Polskich w Średniowieczu. Edycja elektroniczna . PAN . 2010-2016. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  2. a b Dariusz Gacek: Beskid Wyspowy. Przewodnik . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2012, ISBN 978-83-62460-25-0 , p. 240 (Polish).
  3. Henryk Lepucki: Działalność kolonizacyjna Marii Teresy i Józefa II w Galicji 1772-1790: z 9 tablicami i MAPA . Kasa im. J. Mianowskiego, Lwów 1938, p. 163-165 (Polish, online ).
  4. Ludwig Patryn (Ed.): Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat, edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900, XII. Galicia . Vienna 1907 ( online ).