Gierałtowice (Wieprz)

Gierałtowice
	Gierałtowice
	Gierałtowice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lesser Poland
Powiat :	Wadowice
Gmina :	Wieprz
Geographic location :	49 ° 56 ' N , 19 ° 23' E Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '22 " N , 19 ° 23' 4" E
Height :	290 m npm
Residents :	1650 (2011)
Telephone code :	(+48) 33
License plate :	KWA
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Catholic Church

Gierałtowice ( German Gieraltowice ; older Geraltsdorf ) is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Wieprz in the powiat Wadowicki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship , Poland .

geography

Gierałtowice is located in the Auschwitz Basin ( Kotlina Oświęcimska ).

Neighboring towns are Gierałtowiczki in the northwest, Rudze in the northeast, Przybradz in the east, Frydrychowice in the southeast, Wieprz in the south, Głebowice in the southwest.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1326 when the parish Villa Gerardi was mentioned in the Peterspfennigregister in the deanery of the Zator diocese of Krakow . The name is patronymically derived from the first name Gierałt / Gieralt (≤ German Gerard ) with the typical patronymic word ending - (ow) ice. Mentioned again in 1336 as Villa Gerhardi , first mentioned as Gieraltowice in 1378. In 1400 it was mentioned once as a German Geraltsdorff .

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 , Gierałtowice became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire in 1772 (from 1804).

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Gierałtowice 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 Gierałtowice was part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .

Web links

Commons : Gierałtowice - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Julian Zinkow: Oświęcim i okolice. Przewodnik monograficzny . Wydawnictwo "PLATAN", Oświęcim 1994, ISBN 83-7094-002-1 , p. 251-253 (Polish).
↑ January Ptaśnik (editor): Monumenta Poloniae Vaticana T.1 Acta Apostolicae Camerae. Vol. 1, 1207-1344 . Sums. Academiae Litterarum Cracoviensis, Cracoviae 1913, pp. 127-131 ( online ).
^ Tomasz Jurek (editor): Słownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziem Polskich w Średniowieczu. Edycja elektroniczna .
↑ Register of local authorities in the Bielitz district [as of January 1, 1945]. Retrieved July 23, 2015 .
↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish, PDF; 783 kB)

[zinkow-1] Julian Zinkow: Oświęcim i okolice. Przewodnik monograficzny . Wydawnictwo "PLATAN", Oświęcim 1994, ISBN 83-7094-002-1 , p. 251-253 (Polish).

[2] January Ptaśnik (editor): Monumenta Poloniae Vaticana T.1 Acta Apostolicae Camerae. Vol. 1, 1207-1344 . Sums. Academiae Litterarum Cracoviensis, Cracoviae 1913, pp. 127-131 ( online ).

[3] Tomasz Jurek (editor): Słownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziem Polskich w Średniowieczu. Edycja elektroniczna .

[4] Register of local authorities in the Bielitz district [as of January 1, 1945]. Retrieved July 23, 2015 .

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