Łapsze Niżne

Łapsze Niżne
	Łapsze Niżne
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lesser Poland
Powiat :	Nowotarski
Gmina :	Łapsze Niżne
Geographic location :	49 ° 24 '  N , 20 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '54 "  N , 20 ° 14' 25"  E
Residents :	1400 (2004)
Postal code :	34-442
Telephone code :	(+48) 18
License plate :	KNT
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Krakow-Balice

Łapsze Niżne ( Slovak Nižné Lapše , Hungarian Alsólápos until 1892 Alsó-Laps ; German Unterlapsch ) is a village in the powiat Nowotarski of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name with around 9300 inhabitants.

history

Łapsze Niżne is one of the fourteen villages in the Polish Spiš . It belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary until 1918 and was administratively located in Zips County .

The village was first mentioned in writing in 1274 as a parish. The area was settled by German colonists during the medieval eastern settlement. The name is derived from the word łopuch , Romanian lapus , Goral łapsy .

In the 19th century, Slovak became the language of the church and schools, but the local Gorals spoke Goral , a dialect of Polish descent that was always considered Slovak in the Hungarian censuses, unlike the Goral villages of the Arwa . A policy of Magyarization was later pursued.

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the village became part of the newly formed Czechoslovakia. As a result of the Czechoslovak-Polish border conflicts in the Spiš area, the place was assigned to the Second Polish Republic in 1920. Between 1920 and 1925 he belonged to the powiat Spisko-Orawski , from July 1, 1925 to the powiat Nowotarski. In 1921 the community had 123 houses with 610 inhabitants, of which 610 were Poles, six Jews, one other nationality, 610 Roman Catholic, one Protestant, and six Israelites.

From 1939 to 1945 the village became part of the Slovak State .

local community

The rural community (gmina wiejska) has about 9300 inhabitants on an area of ​​124.79 km². Eight villages with nine school boards belong to it.

→ Main article : Gmina Łapsze Niżne

Web links

Commons : Łapsze Niżne  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Józef Nyka: Pieniny. Przewodnik . Latchorzew 2010, ISBN 978-83-60078-09-9 , pp. 85-88 (Polish).
2. ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Województwo krakowskie i Śląsk Cieszyński . Warszawa 1925 (Polish, online ).