Ligota (Czechowice-Dziedzice)

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Ligota
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Ligota (Poland)
Ligota
Ligota
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : Bielsko-Biała
Gmina : Czechowice-Dziedzice
Area : 14  km²
Geographic location : 49 ° 53 '  N , 18 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '46 "  N , 18 ° 56' 57"  E
Residents : 4454 (2008-12-31)
Postal code : 43-518
Telephone code : (+48) 32
License plate : SBI



Town view

Ligota ( German Ellgoth ) is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Czechowice-Dziedzice in the Powiat Bielski of the Silesian Voivodeship , Poland .

geography

Ligota is located in the Auschwitz Basin ( Kotlina Oświęcimska ), about 8 km northwest of Bielsko-Biała and 45 km south of Katowice in the Powiat (district) Bielsko-Biała.

The village has an area of ​​about 1400 ha . In 1955, 182 ha of the Goczałkowice Reservoir was flooded.

Neighboring towns are Zabrzeg in the north, the city of Czechowice-Dziedzice in the east, Międzyrzecze Dolne in the south, and Bronów in the west.

history

The village is located in the Olsa area (also Teschener Silesia , Polish Śląsk Cieszyński ).

The place was first mentioned in 1452 as Elgot . Walter Kuhn thought it would later be mentioned as Targerstorff (1565, 1571) ( "probably an older name for Ellgoth nö. Bielitz" ). The name Lgotka reappeared in 1592. The name means grace period .

Politically, the village belonged to the Duchy of Teschen , the feudal lordship of the Kingdom of Bohemia , since 1526 in the Habsburg monarchy .

After the abolition of patrimonial it was from 1850 a municipality in Austrian Silesia , district and judicial district Bielitz . In the years 1880 to 1910 the population increased from 1651 in 1880 to 1792 in 1910, there were predominantly Polish speakers (between 94.1% and 99.4%), also German speakers (5.9% in 1880). In 1910 90.4% were Roman Catholic, 7.9% Protestant and 31 (1.7%) Jews.

A Catholic church was built between 1801 and 1806.

In 1920, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the end of the Polish-Czechoslovak border war , Ligota came to Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II .

From 1975 to 1998 Ligota was part of the Katowice Voivodeship .

Web links

Commons : Ligota (gmina Czechowice Dziedzice)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gmina Czechowice-Dziedzice: Sołectwo Ligota ( pl ) In: www.czechowice-dziedzice.pl . Retrieved June 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Robert Mrózek: Nazwy miejscowe dawnego Śląska Cieszyńskiego . Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach , 1984, ISSN  0208-6336 , p. 105, 200 (Polish).
  3. ↑ Marcin Żerański: Śląsk Cieszyński od Bielsko-Białej do Ostrawy. Przewodnik turystyczny . Pracownia na Pastwiskach, Cieszyn 2012, ISBN 978-83-933109-3-7 , p. 264 (Polish).
  4. ^ Idzi Panic: Śląsk Cieszyński w średniowieczu (do 1528) . Starostwo Powiatowe w Cieszynie, Cieszyn 2010, ISBN 978-83-926929-3-5 , p. 309 (Polish).
  5. ↑ Kazimierz Piątkowski: Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem . Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego, Cieszyn 1918, p. 275, 276 (Polish, opole.pl ).
  6. ↑ Ludwig Patryn (ed): The results of the census of December 31, 1910 in Silesia , Opava 1912.
  7. ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB).