Kocoń
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Żywiec | ||
| Gmina : | Ślemień | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 43 ' N , 19 ° 24' E | ||
| Height : | 480-700 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 702 (2008) | ||
| Postal code : | 34-323 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 33 | ||
| License plate : | SZY | ||
Kocoń is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Ślemień in the Powiat Żywiecki of the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .
geography
The place lies between the Little Beskids in the north and the Czeretniki ridge of the Makow Beskids in the south, in the Przydawki pass, in the Brama Kocońska (Kocońska Gate) on the watershed between the tributaries of the Soła (the Kocoń brook in the west) and Skawa (Kocońka in the east). The neighboring towns are Ślemień in the west and north, Las in the east and Kurów in the south.
history
The place was founded in the late 16th century by the Wallachians under the Komorowski family, the owners of the Saybusch land . From 1608 he belonged to the Ślemień domain.
During the first partition of Poland in 1772 the village became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804). From 1782 it belonged to the Myslenice district (1819 with the seat in Wadowice ). After the abolition of patrimonial , it formed a municipality in the Saybusch district after 1850 .
In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Kocoń came to Poland. In 1923 the village was detached from the powiat Żywiecki and connected to the powiat Makowski , but after the protests of the local population, this administrative border shift was reversed in 1931.
After the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II it belonged to the district Saybusch the administrative district of Katowice in the province of Silesia (since 1941 province of Upper Silesia ). In 1939 the village had 1,079 inhabitants. In the Saybusch campaign , 77 families or 359 Poles were forcibly evacuated from Kocoń on October 11, 1940 in order to settle there with 23 ethnic German families and 128/126 Roman Catholics from Eastern Galicia and the Buchenland . The reduction of the population to 200, the complete Germanization and the renaming to Rauhenwald were planned for the village, but not introduced before the end of the world war.
From 1975 to 1998 Kocoń was part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .
Personalities
- Albin Małysiak (1917–2011), Polish religious and Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Krakow.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kocoń on the page http://www.infoserwis-etnokultura.pl
- ↑ Radosław TRUS: Beskid Mały. Przewodnik . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2008, ISBN 978-83-8918877-9 , p. 275 (Polish).
- ↑ Mirosław Sikora: Niszczyć, by tworzyć. Germanizacja Żywiecczyznyprzez narodowosocjalistyczne Niemcy 1939–1944 / 45 [Destroying to Create. The Germanization of the Zywiec District by National Socialist Germany 1939–1944 / 45] . Oddział Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej - Komisji Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu w Katowicach, Tarnowskie Góry 2010, ISBN 978-83-7629-229-8 , p. 223, 254, 358, 377, 513, 615, 619 (Polish, online ).
- ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)
Web links
- Kocoń . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 4 : Kęs – Kutno . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1883, p. 235 (Polish, edu.pl ).