Jurgów

Jurgów
Help on coat of arms	Jurgów
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lesser Poland
Powiat :	Tatra Mountains
Gmina :	Bukowina Tatrzańska
Area :	7.68  km²
Geographic location :	49 ° 21 ′  N , 20 ° 8 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents :	903 (2005)
Postal code :	34-532
Telephone code :	(+48) 18
License plate :	KTT
Economy and Transport
Street :	Nowy Targ - Podspády  ( SK )
Next international airport :	Krakow-Balice

Baroque wooden church

Jurgów ( German Jurkau / Joerg , Slovak Jurgov , Hungarian Szepesgyörke ) is a small village with about 830 inhabitants in the rural municipality of Bukowina Tatrzańska in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship .

geography

The place is located in the Polish Spiš directly on the border with Slovakia on the right bank of the Białka River . Until Poland and Slovakia joined the Schengen Agreement, there was a border crossing on the DK49 road in town.

history

Jurgów is one of the fourteen villages in the Polish Spiš .

The place was founded in 1546 with Wallachian law .

In the 19th century, Slovak became the language of the church and schools, but the local Gorals spoke Goral , a dialect of Polish descent that was always considered Slovak in the Hungarian censuses, unlike the Goral villages of the Arwa . A policy of Magyarization was later pursued.

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the village became part of the newly formed Czechoslovakia. As a result of the Czechoslovak-Polish border conflicts in the Spiš area, the place was assigned to the Second Polish Republic in 1920. Between 1920 and 1925 he belonged to the powiat Spisko-Orawski , from July 1, 1925 to the powiat Nowotarski. In 1921 the community had 136 houses with 648 inhabitants, all of them Roman Catholic, 647 Polish, 1 other nationality.

From 1939 to 1945 the village became part of the Slovak State .

Attractions

• The wooden church of St. Sebastian from the second half of the 17th century with rich baroque furnishings and a stone, free-standing bell tower from 1881.
• The Zagroda Sołtysów Ethnographic Museum in a wooden house from 1861 is a branch of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane .

Winter sports

The Jurgów ski area , which is part of the TatrySki ski pass association , is located in the municipality .

Web links

Commons : Jurgów  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information page about Jurgow (Polish, English and Slovak)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Województwo krakowskie i Śląsk Cieszyński . Warszawa 1925 (Polish, online ).