Kuków (Stryszawa)

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Kuków
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Kuków (Poland)
Kuków
Kuków
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : Sucha
Gmina : Stryszawa
Geographic location : 49 ° 44 ′  N , 19 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 50 ″  N , 19 ° 29 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 420-480 m npm
Residents : 1310 (2010)
Postal code : 34-206
Telephone code : (+48) 33
License plate : KSU



Local school

Kuków is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality of Stryszawa in the powiat Suski of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

The place lies between the Capia Górka in the Little Beskids in the north and the Makower Beskids in the south, on the Koconka brook in the inflow area of ​​the Skawa . The neighboring towns are Krzeszów in the north, Stryszawa in the east, Lachowice in the south, Las in the west, and Targoszów in the northwest.

history

The place was founded by Piotr Komorowski, the owner of the Saybusch land , in the early 16th century by Wallachians . Later he belonged to the Ślemień estate .

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 , after 1850 it formed a parish in the judicial district of Wadowice in the judicial district of Ślemień (from 1906 with the seat in Sucha ) in the Saybusch district . At that time siderite was mined there, which was processed in the smelters in Sucha and Maków .

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Kuków became part of Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II . It then belonged to the district of Saybusch in the administrative district of Katowice in the province of Silesia (since 1941 province of Upper Silesia ).

From 1975 to 1998 Kuków belonged to the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .

Web links

Commons : Kuków  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Radosław TRUS: Beskid Mały. Przewodnik . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2008, ISBN 978-83-8918877-9 , p. 278-279 (Polish).
  2. Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)