Łęki (Kęty)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lesser Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Oświęcim | ||
| Gmina : | Kęty | ||
| Area : | 3.8 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 57 ' N , 19 ° 13' E | ||
| Height : | 255 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 1350 (2013) | ||
| Postal code : | 32-651 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 33 | ||
| License plate : | KOS | ||
Łęki ( German Lenki ) is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Kęty in the powiat Oświęcimski of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship , Poland .
geography
Łęki is located in the Auschwitz Basin ( Kotlina Oświęcimska ) on the right bank of the Soła .
The village has an area of about 380 hectares .
Neighboring towns are Zasole in the west, Grojec in the north, Osiek in the east, Bielany in the south.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1404 as Lanky . The name means meadows in German (Polish łąki , in the local dialect often pronounced łęki or łenki ).
Politically, the village originally belonged to the Duchy of Auschwitz , under the feudal rule of the Kingdom of Bohemia . In 1457 the duchy with the village of Lanky was bought by the Polish king. In 1564, Łęki was completely incorporated as part of the new Silesia District of the Cracow Voivodeship to the Kingdom of Poland , from 1569 the Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic .
When Poland was first partitioned , Łęki became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire in 1772 (from 1804). From 1782 the village belonged to the Myslenice district (1819 with the seat in Wadowice ). After the abolition of patrimonial it formed a parish in the Biała District .
In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Łęki came to Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II . It then belonged to the district of Bielitz in the administrative district of Katowice in the province of Silesia (since 1941 province of Upper Silesia ).
Until 1952 Zasole was a hamlet of Łęki.
From 1975 to 1998 Łęki was part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Julian Zinkow: Oświęcim i okolice. Przewodnik monograficzny . Wydawnictwo "PLATAN", Oświęcim 1994, ISBN 83-7094-002-1 , p. 233-236 (Polish).
- ↑ Register of local authorities in the Bielitz district (as of January 1, 1945). Retrieved July 23, 2015 .
- ↑ Tomasz Jurek (editor): ŁĘKI ( pl ) In: Słownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziem Polskich w Średniowieczu. Edycja elektroniczna . PAN . 2010-2016. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- ^ Krzysztof Rafał Prokop: Księstwa oświęcimskie i zatorskie wobec Korony Polskiej w latach 1438-1513. Dzieje polityczne . PAU , Kraków 2002, ISBN 83-8885731-2 , p. 151 (Polish).
- ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish, PDF; 783 kB)
Web links
- Łęki . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 5 : Kutowa Wola – Malczyce . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1884, p. 663 (Polish, edu.pl ).
