Orawka
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State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Lesser Poland | |
Powiat : | Nowy Targ | |
Gmina : | Jabłonka | |
Geographic location : | 49 ° 31 ' N , 19 ° 43' E | |
Height : | 390-700 m npm | |
Residents : | 977 (2003) | |
Postal code : | 34-232 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 18 | |
License plate : | KNT |
Orawka ( Orávka in Slovak , Oravka in Hungarian ) is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality of Jabłonka in the powiat Nowotarski of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .
geography
The place lies on the brook Czarna Orawa in the Saybuscher Beskids .
history
The place is in the Arwa landscape , which belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary until 1918 . It was founded in 1585 on the initiative of Francis Thurzo as Orawka Niżna . The founder and the first mayor was Jerzy Wilga , the settlers came mainly from the area around Saybusch (Poland).
The place was devastated in the years 1604-1606 because of the uprising of Stephan Bocskai and attacked almost simultaneously by Mikołaj Komorowski (1604-1605), who wanted to punish the refugees from his Saybuscher goods.
The Reformation took place in Arwa in the 16th and 17th centuries . In 1614 the Lutheran Church was built, but in 1651 a Roman Catholic parish was established for the whole of northern Arwa (in the Archdiocese of Esztergom , since 1776 Diocese of Spiš , since 1920 Diocese of Krakow ) and the village became the center of recatholicization . Today's wooden church was built under priest Jan Szczęchowicz von Ratułów (around 1651–1659), with a school and hospital for the poor.
In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the village became part of the newly formed Czechoslovakia. Due to the Czechoslovak-Polish border conflicts in the Arwa area, the place was assigned to the Second Polish Republic in 1920. Between 1920 and 1925 it belonged to the powiat Spisko-Orawski , from July 1, 1925 to the powiat Nowotarski. In 1921 the community had 146 houses with 657 inhabitants, 655 of them Poles, 1 German, 1 other nationality, 653 Roman Catholic, 4 Israelite.
From 1939 to 1945 the village became part of the Slovak State .
From 1975 to 1998 Orawka was part of the Nowy Sącz Voivodeship .
Attractions
- Wooden church, built in the middle of the 17th century
- Former dye works (18th century)
Personalities
- Ján Bernolák (1827–1893), Slovak soldier and civil servant
traffic
The state road DK 7 , which connects Cracow with Chyżne and Slovakia , runs through Orawka .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Stanisław Figiel, Urszula Janicka-Krzywda, Piotr Krzywda, Wojciech W. Wiśniewski: Beskid Żywiecki. Przewodnik . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2006, ISBN 83-8918859-7 , p. 395-397 (Polish).
- ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Województwo krakowskie i Śląsk Cieszyński . Warszawa 1925 (Polish, online ).
- ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)