Moszczenica Wyżna

Moszczenica Wyżna
	Moszczenica Wyżna
	Moszczenica Wyżna
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lesser Poland
Powiat :	Nowy Sącz
Gmina :	Stary Sącz
Geographic location :	49 ° 31 ' N , 20 ° 36' E Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '26 " N , 20 ° 36' 26" E
Height :	240 m npm
Residents :	648 (2013)
Telephone code :	(+48) 18
License plate :	KNS
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Moszczenica Wyżna (formerly also Moszczanica Wyższa ) is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality of Stary Sącz in the powiat Nowosądecki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship , Poland .

geography

The place lies on the brook Moszczenica under the Beskid Beskids ( Beskid Sądecki ).

The neighboring towns are Moszczenica Niżna in the north, Przysietnica in the south, Skrudzina in the west.

history

The place was founded in 1341. It originally belonged to the Poor Clares in Stary Sącz .

Habsburg troops occupied the village as early as 1770 and it was annexed to the Kingdom of Hungary . After the first partition of Poland , Barcice became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804).

In 1900 the village had 450 inhabitants, all of them Polish-speaking and Roman Catholic.

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Moszczenica Wyżna 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 Moszczenica Wyżna belonged to the Nowy Sącz Voivodeship .

Individual evidence

↑ 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.

[patryn-1] 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.