Majkowice (Bochnia)

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Majkowice (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : Bochnia
Gmina : Rural municipality Bochnia
Geographic location : 50 ° 3 '  N , 20 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '47 "  N , 20 ° 28' 35"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 32-711
Telephone code : (+48) 14
License plate : KBC, KBA



School in Majkowice

Majkowice ( German Maykowitz ) is a village with a Schulzenamt of the rural municipality Bochnia in the Powiat Bocheński of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

The place is on the right bank of the Raba River .

The districts are: Folwark ( Vorwerk ), Krzaki, Nowe Majkowice ( Neu Maykowitz ), Stare Majkowice ( Old Maykowitz ), Turzec.

The neighboring towns are Bogucice in the northeast, Gawłów and Ostrów Schlachecki in the south, Gawłówek in the west, Mikluszowice in the northwest.

history

During the first partition of Poland , Majkowice became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire in 1772 (from 1804).

In 1784, as part of the Josephine colonization, German colonists of Lutheran, Catholic and Reformed denominations were settled there. The part of the colonists was called Majkowice Nowe / Neu Maykowitz . The Protestants belonged to the parish in Gawłów . There was a private German school with 3 classes. Most of them were Polonized by the end of the 19th century. In 1900 the whole village had 442 inhabitants, all of them Polish-speaking, 373 Roman Catholic, 15 Jews and 54 other faiths (predominantly Protestant).

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Majkowice came to Poland. This was interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II , during which it belonged to the Generalgouvernement .

From 1975 to 1998 Majkowice was part of the Tarnów Voivodeship .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Henryk Lepucki: Działalność kolonizacyjna Marii Teresy i Józefa II w Galicji 1772-1790: z 9 tablicami i MAPA . Kasa im. J. Mianowskiego, Lwów 1938, p. 163-165 (Polish, online ).
  2. Schematism of the Evangelical Church in Augsb. and Helvet. Confession in the kingdoms and countries represented in the Austrian Imperial Council . Vienna 1875, p. 194-195 ( online ).
  3. Ludwig Patryn (Ed.): Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat, edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900, XII. Galicia . Vienna 1907.