Kacwin

Kacwin
Help on coat of arms	Kacwin
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lesser Poland
Powiat :	Nowy Targ
Gmina :	Łapsze Niżne
Geographic location :	49 ° 22 '  N , 20 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '25 "  N , 20 ° 17' 38"  E
Height :	530-980 m npm
Residents :	980 (2006)
Postal code :	34-441 Niedzica
Telephone code :	(+48) 18
License plate :	KNT

Kacwin ( Slovak Kacvín , Hungarian Szentmindszent ; German Katzwinkel ) is a village with a school administration of the municipality Łapsze Niżne in the powiat Nowotarski of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

The place is on the brook Kacwiński Potok (Kacwinianka). In the south it borders on Slovakia ( Veľká Franková ).

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  Map of the Polish Spiš

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  Place view

history

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

The place was mentioned in 1320 when it was sold to his brother Jan by the master Kokosz Brezeviczy . A Roman Catholic church was built around 1400 and became Protestant in 1666. In 1679 the place was called Kacvinensis or Kaczvinkensis .

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 171 houses with 698 inhabitants, including 658 Poles, three Ruthenians, ten Germans, one Jew, 26 other nationalities (mostly Slovaks), 685 Roman Catholic, three Protestant, ten Israelite.

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

From 1975 to 1998 Kacwin was part of the Nowy Sącz Voivodeship .

Attractions

• Church built in the 14th century

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  church

Web links

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

• Kacwin . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 3 : Haag – Kępy . Sulimierskiego and Walewskiego, Warsaw 1882, p. 650 (Polish, edu.pl ).
• kacwin.com - Page about Kacwin (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Województwo krakowskie i Śląsk Cieszyński . Warszawa 1925 (Polish, online [PDF]).
2. ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)