Mucharz

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Mucharz
Coat of arms of Gmina Mucharz
Mucharz (Poland)
Mucharz
Mucharz
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : Wadowicki
Gmina : Mucharz
Geographic location : 49 ° 49 '  N , 19 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '44 "  N , 19 ° 33' 23"  E
Residents : 830 (2006)
Postal code : 34-106
Telephone code : (+48) 33
License plate : KWA



Mucharz is a village in the powiat Wadowicki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name with a little over 4000 inhabitants.

Place view

geography

The place is located on the left bank of the Skawa River in the Lesser Beskids .

The neighboring towns are Zagórze in the north, Stryszów in the east, Skawce in the southeast, Jaszczurowa and Śleszowice in the south-west and Koziniec in the north-west.

history

Mucharz is the oldest settlement in the Skawa mountain valley. The first traces of the people in Mucharz come from the Mesolithic Age (7000 BC) and later from the Lusatian culture . According to a legend, the Wislanes had a pagan, walled temple there. Around 880 Mucharz was allegedly visited by Cyril and Method or their students, and in 996 by Adalbert of Prague .

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1254. In that year it was awarded with an inn, fields and forest by Bolesław V to the Premonstratensian women in Zwierzyniec near Cracow . It was then transferred from Polish to German law. Besides the southernmost Mucharz, the sisters u. a. also owned Roków , Grodzisko , Krzęcin in the Kraków-Silesian border area until the late 18th century.

The parish of Muchar was first mentioned in the Peterspfennigregister of the year 1326 in the deanery of the Zator diocese of Cracow . This parish covered a large area from Wadowice in the north to Babia Góra in the south.

Politically, the village belonged to the Duchy of Auschwitz since around 1315 , this existed during the period of Polish particularism . Since 1327 the duchy existed under the feudal rule of the Kingdom of Bohemia . Since 1445 it belonged to the Duchy of Zator , which was sold to the Polish king in 1494. Subsequently, the Duchy of Auschwitz-Zator was completely attached to the Kingdom of Poland in 1564, as the district of Silesia in the Krakow Voivodeship , and from 1569 in the Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic .

Catholic Church

During the first partition of Poland , Mucharz came to the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire in 1772 (from 1804). From 1782 it belonged to the Myslenice district (1819 with the seat in Wadowice ). After the abolition of patrimonial it formed a municipality in the judicial district of Wadowice in the Wadowice District after 1850 .

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Mucharz 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 ) on the Skawa, at that time Schaue , which became the border between the Third Reich and the Generalgouvernement .

From 1975 to 1998 Mucharz belonged to the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .

Attractions

  • Catholic Church, built 1835–1868;

local community

The rural community (gmina wiejska) Mucharz includes seven villages with school administration offices .

traffic

The state road DK 28 , which connects Zator through Nowy Sącz with Przemyśl , runs through Mucharz .

Web links

Commons : Mucharz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Radosław Truś: Beskid Mały. Przewodnik . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2008, ISBN 978-83-8918877-9 , p. 294-297 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Paweł Valde-Nowak, Wojciech Blajer, Anna Kraszewska, Marcin Leśniakiewicz, Marek Cwetsch, Jan Śniadek, Barbara Woźniak: Najstarsze osadnictwo w dolinie Skawy . 2016, Osadnictwo w beskidzkiej części dorzecza Skawy do poł. XVI w. w świetle źródeł pisanych, p. 28–31 (Polish, online [PDF]).
  3. ↑ January Ptaśnik (editor): Monumenta Poloniae Vaticana T.1 Acta Apostolicae Camerae. Vol. 1, 1207-1344 . Sums. Academiae Litterarum Cracoviensis, Cracoviae 1913, pp. 127-131 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)