Ciężkowice
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lesser Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Tarnowski | ||
| Gmina : | Ciężkowice | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 47 ' N , 20 ° 58' E | ||
| Residents : | 2454 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 33-190 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 14 | ||
| License plate : | KTA | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Grybów - Tarnów | ||
| Next international airport : | Krakow-Balice | ||
Ciężkowice (formerly Cieszkowice ) is a city in Poland in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with around 11,200 inhabitants.
geography
The city on the Biała is the namesake for the Ciężkowice Mountains . The neighbors are Bogoniowice and Tursko in the north, Rzepiennik Strzyżewski in the northeast, Ostrusza in the southeast, Zborowice in the south and Kąśna Dolna in the west.
history
In the 12th century, the area belonged to the Benedictine Abbey of Tyniec , so first mentions appeared in connection with this, the dating of which has been questioned. The place was mentioned in a document by Gilo of Paris (probably from the years 1123-1125) as Cecouici and in a papal bull published in 1229 as Cecovici . The patronymic name is derived from the personal name Cieszek .
Casimir III granted the town its town charter on February 29, 1348 and it was laid on an additional 150 Franconian hooves in the local forest. The brothers Minard and Mikołaj became the Schulzen for the place to which the villages Bogoniowice and Ostrusza were added. Ten years later the Church of St. Andrew was consecrated.
The city initially belonged to the Kingdom of Poland (from 1569 in the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania ), Krakow Voivodeship , Biecz District . In the 16th and 17th centuries, the place was able to develop economically because it was at the crossroads of two trade routes. During the Reformation , the numerous local Protestants turned a building in the Vogt's forecourt into a house of prayer. From 1655 the city suffered from the Second Northern War and the number of inhabitants decreased.
During the First Partition of Poland , Ciężkowice came under Austrian rule in 1772 . A great fire destroyed large parts of the city in 1830, including the St. Andrew's Church. During the First World War , battles between the Austrian and Russian armies took place near the city. After the war, the place came to re-formed Poland. In the interwar period Ciężkowice lost its town charter in 1934.
On September 7, 1939, the place was occupied by the Wehrmacht . The occupation lasted until January 17, 1945 when the Red Army advanced into the area. As part of the People's Republic of Poland , Ciężkowice was administratively assigned to the newly formed Tarnów Voivodeship in 1975 . With effect from January 1, 1998 Ciężkowice received city rights again. Administrative reform in Poland in 1999 reduced the number of voivodeships and the city became part of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Culture and sights
Museums
There is a folklore museum , a Paderewski museum and a natural history museum in the city.
Buildings
The parish church of St. Andrew from 1901/1902 and the chapel of St. Florian from 1895 are well worth seeing. The town hall from 1836 and some old houses from the 17th and 19th centuries are also worth seeing. In the city there is a cemetery for those who died in the First World War.
local community
The urban and rural municipality (gmina miejsko-wiejska) has an area of 103.22 km². In addition to the city of Ciężkowice, there are other villages with school offices.
traffic
The city is located on the 977 Voivodeship Road, which begins about 30 kilometers away in Tarnów . In the south, it joins state road 75 about 40 kilometers away not far from the town of Krynica-Zdrój .
The John Paul II. Krakow Balice International Airport is located about 85 kilometers west. The smaller Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport is located about 80 kilometers northeast of Ciężkowice.
sons and daughters of the town
- Karol Mroszczyk (1905–1976), composer and music teacher
Web links
- City website (Polish)
- Municipality website (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Labuda Gerard: Szkice historyczne XI wieku: początki klasztoru benedyktynów w Tyńcu; . In: Studia Źródłoznawcze . 35, 1994, pp. 27-41.
- ↑ G. Labuda, 1994, p. 30
- ↑ Kazimierz Rymut , Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch: Nazwy miejscowe Polski: historia, pochodzenie, zmiany . 2 (CD). Polska Akademia Nauk . Instytut Języka Polskiego, Kraków 1997, p. 147 (Polish, online ).
- ↑ Tomasz Jurek (editor): CIĘŻKOWICE ( pl ) In: Słownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziem Polskich w Średniowieczu. Edycja elektroniczna . PAN . 2010-2016. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ Henryk Rutkowski (editor), Krzysztof Chłapkowski: Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku; Cz. 2, Komentarz, indeksy . Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2008, p. 57 (Polish, online ).
