Żabnica (Węgierska Górka)
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State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Silesia | |
Powiat : | Żywiec | |
Gmina : | Węgierska Górka | |
Geographic location : | 49 ° 35 ' N , 19 ° 9' E | |
Residents : | 3120 (2008) | |
Postal code : | 34-350 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 33 | |
License plate : | SZY |
Żabnica is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Węgierska Górka in the powiat Żywiecki of the Silesian Voivodeship , Poland .
geography
The place lies on the brook Żabnica in the Saybuscher Beskids ( Beskid Żywiecki ).
Neighboring towns are Węgierska Górka in the northwest, Cięcina in the north, Cisiec and Milówka in the southwest.
View from Barania Góra .
history
The settlement probably originated in the first half of the 17th century. It was first mentioned in a document in 1628.
During the first partition of Poland , Żabnica came to the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire in 1772 (from 1804).
Later in the 19th century the hamlets Koloniści (German: colonists ) and Niemcy (German: Germans ) emerged. In 1900 the village had 1966 inhabitants, of which 1855 were Polish-speaking, 89 were German-speaking, 14 spoke something else, in 1924 were Roman Catholic, 31 were Jews, 1 was of a different faith.
In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Żabnica came to Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II .
From 1975 to 1998 Żabnica was part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .
Attractions
- Catholic wooden church, built between 1910 and 1919
- Wooden bell tower (early 20th century)
- A memorial dedicated to 11 Polish partisans who were killed by German troops
- The Wąwóz bunker
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)