Harmęże

Harmęże
	Harmęże
	Harmęże
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lesser Poland
Powiat :	Oświęcim
Gmina :	Oświęcim
Geographic location :	50 ° 2 ' N , 19 ° 9' E Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '48 " N , 19 ° 8' 58" E
Height :	240 m npm
Residents :	664 (2012)
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Catholic Church

Harmęże ( German Harmense ) is a village with a Schulzenamt of the rural community Oświęcim in the powiat Oświęcimski of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship .

geography

Harmęże is located in the Auschwitz Basin ( Kotlina Oświęcimska ) on the Vistula .

Neighboring towns are Pławy in the north, Rajsko in the east, the city of Brzeszcze in the south, and Wola in the west.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1440. It was originally mentioned as Charmezy , Harmuzy , Charmus , Charmęzy . Politically it was part of the Duchy of Auschwitz , under the feudal rule of the Kingdom of Bohemia . In 1457 it was bought by Poland and mentioned as Charmaszy .

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

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Harmęże came to Poland. This was interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II . The Harmense subcamp existed there from December 8, 1941 to January 18, 1945.

From 1975 to 1998 Harmęże was part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .

Web links

Commons : Harmęże - collection of images, 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. 161-165 (Polish).
^ Krzysztof Rafał Prokop: Księstwa oświęcimskie i zatorskie wobec Korony Polskiej w latach 1438-1513. Dzieje polityczne . PAU , Kraków 2002, ISBN 83-8885731-2 , p. 151 (Polish).
↑ 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. 161-165 (Polish).

[2] Krzysztof Rafał Prokop: Księstwa oświęcimskie i zatorskie wobec Korony Polskiej w latach 1438-1513. Dzieje polityczne . PAU , Kraków 2002, ISBN 83-8885731-2 , p. 151 (Polish).

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