Jurgów
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State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Lesser Poland | |
Powiat : | Tatra Mountains | |
Gmina : | Bukowina Tatrzańska | |
Area : | 7.68 km² | |
Geographic location : | 49 ° 21 ′ N , 20 ° 8 ′ 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 |
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
- Information page about Jurgow (Polish, English and Slovak)