Iwonicz-Zdrój
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Subcarpathian | ||
| Powiat : | Krośnieński | ||
| Gmina : | Iwonicz-Zdrój | ||
| Area : | 5.82 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 34 ' N , 21 ° 48' E | ||
| Height : | 415 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 1838 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 38-440 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 13 | ||
| License plate : | RKR | ||
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| Next international airport : | Rzeszów-Jasionka | ||
Iwonicz-Zdrój is a town in the Powiat Krośnieński of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in Poland . The health resort is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with around 11,000 inhabitants.
Geographical location
The city is located in the south-east of Poland, about 20 kilometers north of the state border between Poland and Slovakia in the Lower Beskids .
history
The village of Iwonicz was visited by many spa guests as early as the 17th century. The spa developed in the 19th century under the noble Załuski family . In 1870 Iwonicz was visited by 815 guests, but in 1884 a train station was opened in Łężany on the Galician Transversal Railway Line and the annual number of visitors increased from 1,283 in 1880 to 5,468 in 1909, which is the third place in all of Galicia after Zakopane and Krynica was. This number of visitors in the interwar period reached 19,000. The place was particularly popular with Jews.
In 1956 Iwonicz was administratively divided into two parts, the Iwonicz-Zdrój health resort, which received town charter in 1973 , and the Iwonicz village (- Wieś ).
Buildings
- The parish church, which was built in 1895, is worth seeing.
- The palace dates from 1838. It served as a summer residence for owners of the place.
- The old bath was built in 1838. Between 1984 and 1987 the building was extensively renovated.
- The Dom Zdrojowy (Health House ) was built in 1860 as a hotel and restaurant.
local community
The urban-and-rural community Iwonicz-Zdrój has an area of 45.5 km², on which about 11,000 people live.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irena Homola-Skapska: Z dziejów Krakowa, Galicji i Śląska Cieszyńskiego . Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków-Warszawa 2007, ISBN 978-83-7188-931-8 , Krosno i powiat krośnieński w latach 1772-1914, p. 376 (Polish).
- ↑ Wojciech Krukar, Tadeusz Andrzej Olszański, Paweł Luboński and other: Beskid Niski. Przewodnik dla prawdziwego turysty . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2008, ISBN 978-83-62460-24-3 , p. 306 (Polish).