Brenna (Poland)

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Brenna
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Brenna (Poland)
Brenna
Brenna
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : Cieszyn
Geographic location : 49 ° 43 '  N , 18 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '29 "  N , 18 ° 54' 10"  E
Height : 420 m npm
Residents : 6115 (2014-05-15)
Postal code : 43-438
Telephone code : (+48) 33
License plate : SCI
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Katowice
Gmina
Gminatype: Rural community
Gmina structure: 3 school offices
Residents: 11,222
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Community number  ( GUS ): 2403042
administration
Address: ul. Wyzwolenia 77
43-438 Brenna
Website : www.brenna.pl



Local panorama
View over Brenna
Town center

Brenna is a village in the powiat Cieszyński in the Silesian Voivodeship , Poland . It is also the seat of the rural community of the same name ( gmina wiejska ).

geography

location

Brenna is located in the Silesian Beskids on the right-hand Vistula tributary Brennica about 15 km southwest of Bielsko-Biała and 60 km south of Katowice in the Teschen district.

In the northwest Brenna borders on Skoczów , in the northeast on the municipalities of Jasienica , Jaworze and the city of Bielsko-Biała . Brenna borders on Szczyrk to the east, Wisła to the south and Ustroń to the west .

Districts

The individual parts of the village have the following names:

  • Brenna Węgierski
  • Brenna Lachy
  • Brenna Bukowa
  • Nad Potokiem
  • Chrobaczy
  • Brenna Hołcyna
  • Brenna Center
  • Brenna Leśnica
  • Brenna Pinkas
  • Brenna Spalona

mountains

The mountain ridge Błatnia (917 m) - Stołów (1035 m) - Trzy Kopce (1082 m) stretches to the northeast and then to the east with Przełęcz Karkoszczonka (729 m) - Beskid Węgierski (929 m) - Przełęcz Salmopolska (934 m).

The lowest point of the municipality is at 300 m in Górki Wielkie at the confluence of the Brennica river into the Vistula. The highest point is the summit of Trzy Kopce at 1,082 m.

history

Brenna is located in the Olsa region (also Teschener Silesia , in Polish Śląsk Cieszyński ).

The first written mention ( z Brennej , from Brenna ) of Brenna comes from 1490. The name comes from the word breń ( the mud , the clay , the swamp ). It was probably the oldest settlement of Wallachians (later Gorals ) in the Duchy of Teschen . The duchy existed from 1290 during the period of Polish particularism . Since 1327 was the fiefdom of the kingdom of Bohemia , since 1526 it belonged to the Habsburg monarchy .

After the abolition of patrimonial , it became a municipality in Austrian Silesia , Bielitz district, Skotschau judicial district from 1850 . In the years 1880-1910 the village had about 2970 inhabitants, there were predominantly Polish speakers (between 97.7% and 99.4%), 2.1% were German speakers (1880) and 0.8% (1910) Czech speakers. In 1910 85.1% were Roman Catholics, 14.1% Protestant, 0.8% Jews.

In 1920, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the Polish-Czechoslovak border war , Brenna came to Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II .

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

local community

The municipality belongs to the Śląsk Cieszyński Euroregion .

  • The municipality in the powiat Cieszynski

  • Villages in the parish

geography

The municipality has an area of ​​95.54 km². 30% of the municipal area is used for agriculture, 64% is covered with forest.

Sołectwo

The municipality includes the Sołectwos (Schulzenämter) Brenna, Górki Wielkie and Górki Małe .

education

The municipality has two primary schools ( szkoła podstawowa ) and one middle school ( gimnazjum ).

Daughters and sons of the church

Web links

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

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Gmina Brenna: Podział administracyjny ( pl ) In: www.brenna.org.pl . 2014. Archived from the original on September 6, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 24, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brenna.org.pl
  2. ↑ population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Rober Mrózek: nazwy miejscowe dawnego Śląska Cieszyńskiego . Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach , 1984, ISSN  0208-6336 , p. 45 (Polish).
  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. ↑ Kazimierz Piątkowski: Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem . Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego, Cieszyn 1918, p. 258, 277 (Polish, opole.pl ).
  6. ↑ Ludwig Patryn (ed): The results of the census of December 31, 1910 in Silesia , Opava 1912.
  7. ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)
  8. ↑ regioset.pl (pl / en)

panorama

Panorama of the Silesian Beskids in Brenna