Olszana

Olszana
Help on coat of arms	Olszana
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lesser Poland
Powiat :	Nowy Sącz
Gmina :	Podegrodzie
Area :	7.97  km²
Geographic location :	49 ° 34 '  N , 20 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '59 "  N , 20 ° 31' 27"  E
Height :	360 m npm
Residents :	1785 (2010)
Postal code :	33-386
Telephone code :	(+48) 18
License plate :	KNS

Olszana is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Podegrodzie in the powiat Nowosądecki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship , Poland .

geography

The place is by the river Jastrzębik in Inselbeskiden ( Beskid Wyspowy ).

The village has an area of ​​797 ha (12.3% of the rural parish).

The neighboring towns are Olszanka in the southeast, Szczereż in the south, Łącko in the southwest, Czarny Potok in the west, Jadamwola in the north.

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  The village in the parish

history

The place was first mentioned in 1289 as Olsana . The name is derived from the alder (Polish olsza ). In 1317 it was founded under Magdeburg law . He originally belonged to the Poor Clares in Stary Sącz.

After the first partition of Poland , Olszana became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804). In 1900 the village had 630 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, Olszana 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 Olszana was part of the Nowy Sącz Voivodeship .

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Web links

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

Individual evidence

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.