Gromiec
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lesser Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Chrzanów | ||
| Gmina : | Libiąż | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 4 ' N , 19 ° 18' E | ||
| Residents : | 1575 (2012) | ||
| Postal code : | 32-590 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 32 | ||
| License plate : | KCH | ||
Gromiec is a village with a Schulzenamt of the Libiąż municipality in the Chrzanowski Powiat in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .
geography
The place is on the left, northern bank of the Vistula . The neighboring towns are the city of Libiąż in the north, Żarki in the east, Dwory Drugie in the southeast, the city of Oświęcim (Monowice district) in the south, and Bobrek in the west.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1463 as Gromyecz . The name is derived from the appellative grom (lightning, thunder) with the suffix -ec and denotes a place where thunder often struck.
The place initially belonged to the Kingdom of Poland (from 1569 aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania ), Krakow Voivodeship , but already after Jan Długosz the parish Oświęcim (Auschwitz) was subordinate to the Duchy of Auschwitz , and in 1581 it was on the list of places in the Silesia district .
During the third partition of Poland in 1795, Gromiec became part of the Habsburg Empire . In the years 1815-1846 the village belonged to the Republic of Krakow , in 1846 it was annexed again as part of the Grand Duchy of Krakow to the countries of the Austrian Empire. After the abolition of patrimonial , it formed a municipality in the Chrzanów district after 1850 .
In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Gromiec became part of Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II . It then belonged to the district of Krenau in the administrative district of Katowice in the province of Silesia (since 1941 province of Upper Silesia ). From 1975 to 1998 Gromiec was part of the Katowice Voivodeship .
In 2007 the local Roman Catholic parish was established.
Web links
- Gromiec . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 2 : Derenek – Gżack . Sulimierskiego and Walewskiego, Warsaw 1881, p. 848 (Polish, edu.pl ).
- Gromiec . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 15 , part 1: Abablewo – Januszowo . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1900, p. 538 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tomasz Jurek (editor): GROMIEC ( pl ) In: Słownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziem Polskich w Średniowieczu. Edycja elektroniczna . PAN . 2010-2016. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- ↑ Kazimierz Rymut , Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch: Nazwy miejscowe Polski: historia, pochodzenie, zmiany . 3 (EI). Polska Akademia Nauk . Instytut Języka Polskiego, Kraków 1999, p. 390 (Polish, online ).