Mszana Dolna

Mszana Dolna
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lesser Poland
Powiat :	Limanova
Area :	27.1 km²
Geographic location :	49 ° 41 ' N , 20 ° 5' E Coordinates: 49 ° 40 '31 " N , 20 ° 4' 36" E
Residents :	7944 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code :	34-730
Telephone code :	(+48) 18
License plate :	KLI
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK28
Rail route :	Chabówka – Nowy Sącz
Gmina
Gminatype:	Borough
Residents:	7944 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Community number ( GUS ):	1207021
administration
Mayor :	Józef Kowalczyk
Address:	ul. Spadochroniarzy 6 ; 34-730 Mszana Dolna
Website :	www.mszana-dolna.eu
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Mszana Dolna is a city and seat of the city and the independent rural municipality in the powiat Limanowski of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

The place is located at the mouth of the Mszanka brook in the Raba , in the western part of the Beskydy Island . By Mszana Dolna the main road extends DK 28 , the Zator about Novy Sącz with Przemyśl connects.

history

The place Kinsbark was first mentioned in 1365 as a new foundation under German law. The name Kinsbark (the modern equivalent would be Königsberg ) indicates German settlement , but the name Mszana is older and was mentioned in 1257 as the Mschena brook . Kinisbark (Polonized as Mieścisko ) had town charter for a few decades , but lost it in the first half of the 15th century and in 1464 it became part of the village of Mszana. During the Swedish-Polish War (Second Northern War) in the middle of the 17th century, the place was burned down.

Before the Second World War, about 800 Jews lived in Mszana Dolna, that is 30 percent of the population. After the German conquest of Poland in 1939, the marking of Jews with a Star of David bracelet was decreed. In March and April 1940, Jews displaced from Łódź joined them, and in July 1941 a compulsory ghetto was set up that numbered around a thousand Jews. From mid-1942, the Jews capable of working were withdrawn, and on August 19, 1942, 900 Jews were shot on the grounds of the canning factory by German police from Nowy Sacz .

Rural community

The rural community ( gmina wiejska ) Mszana Dolna has an area of 169.83 km², on which 17,627 people live (June 30, 2019). Nine towns with eleven school offices belong to it .

Personalities

Helena Mikołajczyk (* 1968), Polish biathlete
Jan Ziemianin (* 1962), Polish biathlete

Town twinning

Biri , Hungary

literature

Mszana Dolna , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 502

Web links

Commons : Mszana Dolna - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

↑ ^a ^b population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
↑ Jadwiga Warszyńska: Karpaty Polskie: przyroda, człowiek i jego działalność . Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Cracow 1995, ISBN 978-83-233-0852-2 , p. 151 ( google.at [accessed December 28, 2018]).

[L_ludnosc_stan_struktura_30-06-2019-1] population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .

[2] Jadwiga Warszyńska: Karpaty Polskie: przyroda, człowiek i jego działalność . Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Cracow 1995, ISBN 978-83-233-0852-2 , p. 151 ( google.at [accessed December 28, 2018]).