Chocznia

Chocznia
	Chocznia
	Chocznia
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lesser Poland
Powiat :	Wadowice
Gmina :	Wadowice
Geographic location :	49 ° 52 ' N , 19 ° 27' E Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '51 " N , 19 ° 26' 39" E
Residents :	5688 (2008)
Postal code :	34-123
Telephone code :	(+48) 33
License plate :	KWA
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Chocznia is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Wadowice in the powiat Wadowicki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship , Poland .

geography

The place is on the brook Choczenka .

Neighboring towns are the city of Wadowice in the east, Gorzeń Dolny in the southeast, Kaczyna and Ponikiew in the south, Inwałd in the west, Frydrychowice in the northwest.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1355. He had had a Catholic parish for 5 years. 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.

During the first partition of Poland in 1772, Chocznia became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804).

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Chocznia came to Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II . It then belonged to the district of Bielitz in the administrative district of Katowice in the province of Silesia (since 1941 province of Upper Silesia ).

From 1975 to 1998 Chocznia belonged to the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .

Catholic Church

traffic

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

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Radosław TRUS: Beskid Mały. Przewodnik . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2008, ISBN 978-83-8918877-9 , p. 256-258 (Polish).
↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)

[rewasz-1] Radosław TRUS: Beskid Mały. Przewodnik . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2008, ISBN 978-83-8918877-9 , p. 256-258 (Polish).

[2] Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)