Kalwaria Zebrzydowska

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Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
Coat of arms of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (Poland)
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : Wadowicki
Gmina : Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
Area : 5.50  km²
Geographic location : 49 ° 37 '  N , 20 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '0 "  N , 20 ° 42' 0"  E
Height : 298 m npm
Residents : 4606 (December 31, 2016)
Postal code : 33-300
Telephone code : (+48) 33
License plate : KWA
Economy and Transport
Rail route : Krakow - Żywiec
Next international airport : Krakow-Balice
Administration (as of 2007)
Mayor : Augustyn Ormanty



Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (formerly Kalwarya ) is a small town in the powiat Wadowicki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship on the edge of the Beskydy Mountains in southern Poland with about 4600 inhabitants. It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with around 20,000 inhabitants.

history

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska owes its establishment to the Krakow voivode Mikołaj Zebrzydowski . In 1600 he had a small Church of the Holy Cross built on Mount Zarek based on the model of the Golgotha Chapel in Jerusalem. He believed to see a resemblance to Jerusalem in the area. First the Bernardine monastery and a church were built. Other objects inspired by Jerusalem were created later. One of the mountains was renamed Golgotha, another the Mount of Olives and the Skawinka river in the local course to the Cedron brook . The 40 chapels are picturesquely scattered on the surrounding hills and in the Cedron Valley. The famous Passion Play with hundreds of thousands of people takes place here during Holy Week. Zebrzydowa received city ​​rights in 1617 . During the first partition of Poland in 1772, the place became part of Austria .

In 1884 the place was connected to the rail network, but lost its town charter a few years later, in 1896. He received this again in 1934. On March 5, 1912, the place received its name Zebrzydowska to distinguish it from several places of the same name.

Around 1942 there was a sanatorium in the monastery of the Brothers of Mercy in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska.

Until 1950 the town only had 128 hectares and contained nothing more than the narrow center today and the monastery. This year large parts of the villages of Brody (on the left bank of the Skawinka river) and Zebrzydowice were incorporated.

During an administrative reform, the place became part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship in 1975 . Since another reform in 1999, the place is part of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

local community

The town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) includes the town of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska and 13 villages with school boards .

City and community partnerships

Attractions

Basilica and Monastery (UNESCO World Heritage)

Sons and daughters of the village

  • Antoni Banaś (1873–1936), Polish-Austrian politician, district judge and landowner

Web links

Commons : Kalwaria Zebrzydowska  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/image/AC03177788/443/
  2. Willi Dreßen , Volker Riess: Exploitation and Destruction. Health policy in the General Government. In: Norbert Frei (Ed.) Medicine and Health Policy in the Nazi Era. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1991 (= writings of the quarterly books for contemporary history. Special issue), ISBN 3-486-64534-X , pp. 157–171, here: p. 171.
  3. Julian Zinkow: Wokół Kalwarii Zebrzydowskiej i lanckorona . Wydawnictwo "CALVARIANUM", Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2000, ISBN 83-8739541-2 , p. 30 (Polish).