Gmina Rabka-Zdrój

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Gmina Rabka-Zdrój
Coat of arms of Gmina Rabka-Zdrój
Gmina Rabka-Zdrój (Poland)
Gmina Rabka-Zdrój
Gmina Rabka-Zdrój
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : Nowotarski
Geographic location : 49 ° 37 '  N , 19 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '39 "  N , 19 ° 57' 20"  E
Height : 500 m npm
Residents : s. Gmina
Postal code : 34-700-34-701
Telephone code : (+48) 18
Economy and Transport
Street : Europastrasse 77
Rail route : Chabówka – Nowy Sącz
Next international airport : Krakow-Balice
Gmina
Gminatype: Urban-and-rural parish
Gmina structure: 4 school offices
Surface: 69.02 km²
Residents: 17.058
(June 30, 2019)
Population density : 247 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1211123
Administration (as of 2018)
Mayor : Leszek Świder
Address:
ul.Parkowa 2 34-700 Rabka
Website : www.rabka.pl



Wooden church with folklore museum in Rabka

The Gmina Rabka-Zdrój is an urban-and-rural municipality in the powiat Nowotarski of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland . Its seat is the spa town of the same name with around 12,900 inhabitants.

geography

The community is located 50 km south of Kraków on the northern slope of the Gorce in the Rabka basin . The waters include the Raba , Poniczanka, Słonka and Skomielnianka rivers .

history

In 1952 Rabka-Zdrój received town charter . Until the end of 2001 the municipality was called Gmina Rabka .

structure

The town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) includes the town of Rabka-Zdrój, the villages Chabówka , Ponice and Rdzawka, each with a school administration office .

Culture and sights

One of the museums is the wooden church of St. Maria Magdalena, built in 1608; it has housed the Władysław Hurricane Museum of Folk Art since 1936, the oldest exhibits date from the 16th century. The Skansen taboru kolejowego w Chabówce railway open-air museum is located in Chabówka .

Web links

Commons : Gmina Rabka-Zdrój  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .