Meszna (Wilkowice)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Bielsko-Biała | ||
| Gmina : | Wilkowice | ||
| Area : | 2.61 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 45 ' N , 19 ° 3' E | ||
| Residents : | 1831 (2008) | ||
| Postal code : | 43-360 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 33 | ||
| License plate : | SBI | ||
Meszna ( German Meschna ) is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Wilkowice in the Powiat Bielski of the Silesian Voivodeship , Poland .
geography
Meszna is located in the Saybuscher Basin ( Kotlina Żywiecka ) under the Magura mountain (1109 m high) in the Silesian Beskids ( Beskid Śląski , in the west).
The village has an area of 261 hectares .
Neighboring towns are Bystra in the west and north, Wilkowice in the northeast, and Buczkowice in the south.
history
The village was founded in 1712 by Jerzy Warszycki, the owner of the Łodygowice estate .
During the first partition of Poland , Meszna became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire in 1772 (from 1804).
In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Meszna came to Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II . It then belonged to the district of Bielitz in the administrative district of Katowice in the province of Silesia (since 1941 province of Upper Silesia ).
From 1975 to 1998 Meszna was part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Register of local authorities in the Bielitz district [as of January 1, 1945]. Retrieved July 23, 2015 .
- ^ UG Wilkowice: Statute Sołectwa MESZNA. In: bip.ugwilkowice.rekord.pl. Retrieved December 1, 2010 (Polish).
- ^ Mirosław Barański: Beskid Śląski. Przewodnik . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2007, ISBN 978-83-8918871-7 , p. 414 (Polish).
- ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish, PDF; 783 kB)
