Górki Wielkie

Górki Wielkie
	Górki Wielkie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Cieszyn
Gmina :	Brenna
Geographic location :	49 ° 47 '  N , 18 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '0 "  N , 18 ° 51' 0"  E
Residents :	3500 (2006)
Postal code :	43-436
Telephone code :	(+48) 33
License plate :	SCI

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Górki Wielkie (German Groß Gurek ) is a village in the municipality of Brenna in Poland in the Silesian Voivodeship , Powiat Cieszyński . The village is located at the mouth of the Brennica River .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document as Gorkii villa wlodarii around 1305 in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (in the index of the Teschen Duchy ) . Since 1417 the aristocratic family Pięćlatowie ruled over the village . It was divided under Górki Wielkie and Górki Małe in the 16th century. The village has always been the property of various noble families : Góreccys (1521–1697), Marklowscys (1734–1802), the dukes of Teschen.

In 1929 a scout home of the Polish Scout Association ( ZHP) was built on the Bucze hill , and later the central school for scout leaders of the ZHP . In the village (Gorki Sojka), however, there was the school of social work of ZHP , which until 1939 by the pioneer of Polish Scouting, the educators and later soldiers of the Home Army Aleksander Kamiński was headed (memorial plaque on the building). At the same time, Józef Kret held his folk universities here. In 1937, the school for women farmers began its activity on the Bucze hill as well. After the Second World War, the boy scout home and school were confiscated and turned into sanatoriums for children with tuberculosis and other lung diseases. The sanatorium in Sojka was closed in 1999, and the one in Bucze has been functioning as a sanatorium and rehabilitation center for children Bucze since 2000 .

In 1922 Tadeusz Kossak , a family member of the painter and artist family, acquired the manor of the Marklowscy family . His daughter Zofia Kossak-Szczucka , 2nd voto Szatkowska, lived and wrote at the farm . Her last apartment in the gardener's house (since 1957) was converted into a biography museum dedicated to her after her death, which is a branch of the Museum of Cieszyn Silesia . The writer's grave is in the local cemetery and there is a plaque on the church.

Walenty Krząszcz (1886–1959) was born in Górki Wielkie - a village schoolteacher and one of the most important representatives of regional Cieszyn writers.

In the years 1975-1998 the village belonged to the Bielsko Voivodeship.

Attractions

The Church of All Saints was probably built by the Góreccy in the 16th century . After reconstruction in 1662 and many subsequent renovations, it lost most of its Gothic features. This brick single-nave church with an elongated, semicircular closed presbytery has a baroque-classical interior. The grave slab of Henryk Górecki (died 1682) is attached to the gate of the fence . Next to the church there is a cemetery where Zofia Kossak , her husband Zygmunt Szatkowski and Walenty Krząszcz rest.

The manor, which was built in 1781 thanks to the efforts of Helena Maksymiliana Marklowska and bought by Tadeusz Kossak after the First World War, burned down in 1945. Only a few courtyard buildings, the gardener's house and the oak and fir alley leading to them survived the fire.

gallery

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  The All Saints Church

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  Johannes Sarkander Church

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  The evangelical branch church

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  The memorial plaque for Zofia Kossak-Szczucka on the wall of the All Saints Church

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  The 450 year old English oak (22 meters high)

Web links

• Internet presence of the place

Footnotes

1. ^ Idzi Panic: Śląsk Cieszyński w średniowieczu (do 1528) . Starostwo Powiatowe w Cieszynie, Cieszyn 2010, ISBN 978-83-926929-3-5 , p. 297-299 (Polish).
2. ^ Wilhelm Schulte: Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae T.14 Liber Fundationis Episcopatus Vratislaviensis . Breslau 1889, ISBN 978-83-926929-3-5 , p. 110-112 ( online ).
3. ↑ Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( la ) Retrieved August 24, 2014.