Droginia

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Droginia (Poland)
Droginia
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : Myślenice
Gmina : Myślenice
Geographic location : 49 ° 51 '  N , 20 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '57 "  N , 20 ° 0' 24"  E
Residents : 1243 (2018)
Telephone code : (+48) 12
License plate : KMY



Droginia is a town with a mayor's office of Gmina Myślenice in myślenice county of Malopolska province in Poland .

geography

The place is located south of Jezioro Dobczyckie between the Pogórze Wielickie in the north and the island Beskids in the south, 3 km east of the city of Myślenice . The neighboring towns are Borzęta in the northwest, Brzączowice in the northeast, Brzezowa in the east, Kornatka in the southeast, Łęki in the south, and Osieczany in the west.

The former village center was flooded by Jezioro Dobczyckie, the former southwestern hamlet of Banowice on the Trzemeśnianka brook became the new center.

history

According to a legend, Droginia was visited by Adalbert of Prague in 996 . The place was actually very old, it was first mentioned in documents around the year 1234 as Drogin , a village with a chapel, a mill and an inn, when it was awarded to the monastery in Jędrzejów by the Krakow voivode Teodor Foundation of the monastery in Ludźmierz (later in Szczyrzyc ) to help.

Politically and administratively the village belonged to the Kingdom of Poland (from 1569 in the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania ), Krakow Voivodeship , Szczyrzyc District.

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

Military cemetery

After the beginning of World War I , the front reached Droginia at the Battle of Krakow . Those who died around 190 were buried there. In 1918, after the end of the World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Droginia came to Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II . It then belonged to the Krakow district in the General Government .

From 1975 to 1998 Droginia was part of the Krakow Voivodeship .

Before 1986, the majority of the residents of Banowice were resettled. After that the old village was flooded by the Jezioro Dobczyckie.

Attractions

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  • War Cemetery # 371 from World War I;

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gmina Myślenice: Liczba mieszkańców ( pl ) June 30, 2018. Accessed March 6, 2020.
  2. ↑ Gmina Myślenice: Sołectwa gminy Myślenica ( pl ) 2018. Accessed March 6, 2020.
  3. ↑ Tomasz Jurek (editor): DROGINIA ( pl ) In: Słownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziem Polskich w Średniowieczu. Edycja elektroniczna . PAN . 2010-2016. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  4. ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)

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