Błogocice (Cieszyn)

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Błogocice (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : Cieszyn
Gmina : Cieszyn
Geographic location : 49 ° 44 '  N , 18 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '53 "  N , 18 ° 38' 3"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 43-400
Telephone code : (+48) 33
License plate : SCI



Błogocice ( German  Blogotzitz or Blogotitz ) is a district of Cieszyn in the powiat Cieszyński of the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

Błogocice is located on the Puńcówka stream in the Silesian Foothills ( Pogórze Śląskie ) , about four kilometers south of the city center.

In 1910 the village had an area of ​​129  hectares . Neighboring towns: Cieszyn in the north, Bobrek in the east, Puńców in the south. In the west, Błogocice borders on the Czech Republic ( Svibice ).

history

The place was first mentioned in 1447 as forwarg blohoczsky (Blogotitzer Vorwerk ) , and then as z [by] Blogoticz (1566), na [on] Blogoticzych (1684), Blogocic (1697), Blogotice (1724) and so on . The name is patronymically derived from the first name Błogota (≤  Błogo- ) with the typical patronymic word ending - (ow) ice.

Politically, the village originally belonged to the Duchy of Teschen , the feudal lordship of the Kingdom of Bohemia , and since 1526 it has belonged to the Habsburg monarchy .

In the 16th and 17th centuries the village belonged to the Sobek family , then to the Wildau family. In 1661, Andreas Wildau, a merchant from Teschen, received an aristocratic coat of arms , helmet jewelery , membership of the Czech families and the title of Lindenweiß on Blogotitz . From 1791 it belonged to the Teschen Chamber .

After the abolition of patrimonial it became a district of the municipality Svibice in Austrian Silesia , district Teschen and judicial district Teschen in 1850 . In 1900 Błogocice had 20 houses with 218 inhabitants, of which 200 (91.7%) Polish-speaking, 18 (8.3%) German-speaking, 124 (56.9%) Protestant, 94 (43.1%) Roman Catholic. In 1910 there were 27 houses with 327 inhabitants, of which 222 (68.3%) Polish-speaking, 103 (31.7%) German-speaking, 177 (54.1%) Roman Catholic, 150 (45.9%) Protestant.

In 1920, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the end of the Polish-Czechoslovak border war , Błogocice became part of Poland, while the seat of the municipality (Svibice) became part of the Czechoslovak Republic. Błogocice was incorporated into the Cieszyns district on June 26, 1923.

Attractions

  • Schlösschen, initially an outbuilding from the middle of the 15th century, rebuilt by the Mitmayer family in the first half of the 16th century, later rebuilt several times, the last time in 1909.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Robert Mrózek: Nazwy miejscowe dawnego Śląska Cieszyńskiego . Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach , 1984, ISSN  0208-6336 , p. 42 (Polish).
  2. Marcin Żerański: Śląsk Cieszyński od Bielsko-Białej do Ostrawy. Przewodnik turystyczny . Pracownia na Pastwiskach, Cieszyn 2012, ISBN 978-83-933109-3-7 , p. 264 (Polish).
  3. a b Ludwig Patryn (Ed.): The results of the census of December 31, 1910 in Silesia. Troppau 1912.
  4. ^ Idzi Panic: Śląsk Cieszyński w średniowieczu (do 1528) . Starostwo Powiatowe w Cieszynie, Cieszyn 2010, ISBN 978-83-926929-3-5 , p. 313 (Polish).
  5. ^ Mieczysława Chmielewska: Familia Silesiae . tape 1 , 1997, ISBN 83-8820400-9 , document herbowy Andreasa Wildau von Lindenwiese z 1661 r., P. 41–47 (Polish, online [accessed January 13, 2016]).
  6. ^ Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Imperial Council, edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900, XI. Silesia . Vienna 1906 ( online ).