Dębniki (Krakow)

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Market square in Dębniki
Salesian Church

Dębniki is a municipality and a former village on the right, southern bank of the Vistula in Krakow in Poland .

history

A settlement already existed in the 9th to 12th centuries, but was first mentioned in 1254 as Dubniz, Dubnic . The name means oak grove . In the late 14th century, the place Zawada was attached to Dębniki.

Politically, the place was initially part of the Kingdom of Poland (from 1569 in the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania ), Krakow Voivodeship , Szczyrzyc District. When Poland was first partitioned in 1772, Dębniki became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804). From 1855 Dębniki belonged to the Podgórze district .

In 1888 a railway bridge with a crossing for vehicle and pedestrian traffic was opened on the Vistula, which led to greater suburbanization , after Ludwinów with the second largest population growth in the area of ​​Krakow in the years 1880 to 1900 (from 458 to 2731 , or 596.29%).

In 1900 the community of Dębniki had an area of ​​115 hectares with 150 houses and 2672 inhabitants, of which the majority of the population was Polish-speaking (2497) and Roman Catholic (2606), 36 Jews lived in the village , 29 people were German-speaking. The population density was 2323 inhabitants per square kilometer.

On April 1, 1910, the community was incorporated into Krakow. After that, the city of Krakow planned to convert the district of Dębniki into a district of gardens, but only a park with 4.82 hectares was established. During the Second World War, Hans Frank wanted to cultivate the Błonia meadows for the German occupation government of the Generalgouvernement , but the architect Hubert Ritter had designed an “East Nuremberg” project in Dębniki, a representative government district for 10,000 German officials, through expropriations and demolition . Karol Wojtyła lived there from 1938 to 1945 .

Borough

Dzielnica VIII Dębniki

Until 1990 Dębniki belonged to the Podgórze district . The current district of Dzielnica VIII Dębniki had an area of ​​46.19 km² and 60,495 inhabitants in 2016. It includes the former places or settlements:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tomasz Jurek (editor): DĘBNIKI ( 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 . 2 (CD). Polska Akademia Nauk . Instytut Języka Polskiego, Kraków 1997, p. 1 (Polish, online ).
  3. ↑ a b Władysław Kwiecień: Przyczynek do studiów nad ludnością miasta Krakowa i gmin przyległych u schyłku XIX w. 1981, p. 374–376 [PDF 6–8] (Polish, online [PDF]).
  4. ↑ 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 ).
  5. ↑ Paweł Stachnik: Norymberga wschodu. Niemiecki trwały ślad w Krakowie ( pl ) March 19, 2019. Accessed June 14, 2019.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '  N , 19 ° 56'  E