Barwałd Średni

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Barwałd Średni
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Barwałd Średni (Poland)
Barwałd Średni
Barwałd Średni
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : Wadowice
Gmina : Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
Geographic location : 49 ° 52 '  N , 19 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '55 "  N , 19 ° 35' 38"  E
Height : 280-362 m npm
Residents : 1360 (2006)
Postal code : 34-124
Telephone code : (+48) 33
License plate : KWA



Barwałd Średni (German: Middle Bärwald ) is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Kalwaria Zebrzydowska in the powiat Wadowicki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship , Poland .

geography

The place is on the Kleczanka brook .

Neighboring towns are Barwałd Dolny in the west, Wysoka , Stanisław Górny and Stanisław Dolny in the north, Barwałd Górny in the east, Łękawica in the south.

history

Today's three villages Barwałd Dolny (Lower) Barwałd Średni (agent) and Barwałd Górny (Upper) probably began as a three population centers of the only village that as the parish Berwald in Peter's Pence register of the year 1326 in the Dean's Office Zator of the Diocese of Krakow was first documented . Later it was also mentioned as Barvalt (1381), Berualt (1388) or Barualth . The name goes back either to the German words Bär / Berg / Beere + Wald or the first name Berwold / Bierwołt , which was widespread in Poland in the Middle Ages .

The castle of the same name ( castrum ) was first mentioned in a document in 1440, but it was not on the bottom of the village, but on the Żar hill within the village of Zakrzów . The castle was destroyed in 1477.

Politically, the village originally belonged to the Duchy of Auschwitz , which existed from 1315 during the period of Polish particularism . Since 1327 consisted suzerainty of the Kingdom of Bohemia . Since 1445 it belonged to the Duchy of Zator , which was sold to Poland in 1494.

In 1529 the three separate villages Barwalth Superior , Barwalth Media and Barwalth Inferior were first mentioned in a document.

During the first partition of Poland , Barwałd Średni came to the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire in 1772 (from 1804).

Memorial stone to the railway accident

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Barwałd Średni came to Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II . It then belonged to the General Government . On November 24, 1944, a railway accident occurred.

From 1975 to 1998 Barwałd Średni was part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .

traffic

The state road DK 52 , which connects Bielsko-Biała with Kraków , runs through Barwałd Średni .

Web links

Commons : Barwałd Średni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Wojciech Blajer: Comments on the state of research on the Enklawen of the medieval German settlement between Wisłoka and San. [In:] Późne średniowiecze w Karpatach polskich. red. Prof. Jan Gancarski. Krosno, 2007, ISBN 978-83-60545-57-7
  2. January Ptaśnik (editor): Monumenta Poloniae Vaticana T.1 Acta Apostolicae Camerae. Vol. 1, 1207-1344 . Sums. Academiae Litterarum Cracoviensis, Cracoviae 1913, pp. 127-131 ( online ).
  3. a b c Julian Zinkow: Wokół Kalwarii Zebrzydowskiej i Lanckorony . Wydawnictwo "CALVARIANUM", Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2000, ISBN 83-8739541-2 , p. 427-435 (Polish).
  4. Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)