Bielany (Krakow)

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Bielany is a western part of Krakow in Poland , in the VII Zwierzyniec district , on the northern bank of the Vistula .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1254 as Belani , when it was bestowed on the Benedictine nuns in Staniątki by Duke Bolesław V of Krakow . The name is derived from the word biel (a) (moor, wet meadow) with the suffix -any (e.g. inhabitant of ... ). Later Belan or Byelany belonged partly to the Norbertan women in Zwierzyniec or to various nobles.

1603–1642 the Camaldolese monastery was built on the Silberberg in Wolski Forest , which was destroyed in the Swedish Flood in 1655 and was not rebuilt until 1812.

When Poland was partitioned for the third time in 1795, Bielany became part of the Habsburg Empire . In the years 1815-1846 the village belonged to the Republic of Krakow . In 1846 it was annexed again to the countries of the Austrian Empire as part of the Grand Duchy of Krakow . From 1855 Bielany belonged to the Kraków district .

In 1900, the Bielany Narodowa municipality had an area of ​​232 hectares with 66 houses and 416 inhabitants, all of whom were Polish-speaking, except for 402 Roman Catholics there were 14 Jews.

Under Mayor Józef Friedlein, the water supply in Bielany was built for the city of Krakow. In the early 20th century, the Austrians built the fortification "Bielany" ("Krępak") with barracks and artillery of the Kraków fortress . In 1917 the city of Kraków bought Wolski forest between Bielany and Przegorzały in the east (340 ha). On July 6, 1929, the Krakow Zoological Garden was opened there.

Bielany was incorporated into Kraków by German occupiers in 1941 as the cadastral district XXXII, which was only confirmed by the Polish administration on October 25, 1948 with retroactive effect from January 18, 1945.

In 1957 the Bielańskie Skałki Nature Reserve was established.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tomasz Jurek (editor): BIELANY ( pl ) In: Słownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziem Polskich w Średniowieczu. Edycja elektroniczna . PAN . 2010-2016. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  2. ↑ Kazimierz Rymut , Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch: Nazwy miejscowe Polski: historia, pochodzenie, zmiany . 1 (AB). Polska Akademia Nauk . Instytut Języka Polskiego, Kraków 2004, p. 169 (Polish, online ).
  3. ↑ 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 ( online ).
  4. ^ Małgorzata Klimas, Bożena Lesiak-Przybył, Anna Sokół: Wielki Kraków. Rozszerzenie granic miasta w latach 1910–1915 [Greater Krakow. Expansion of the city borders in the years 1910-1915] . Archiwum Państwowe w Krakowie, Kraków 2010, ISBN 978-83-927658-2-0 , p. 322 (Polish, English, online ).

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Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′  N , 19 ° 50 ′  E