Orawka

Orawka
Help on coat of arms	Orawka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lesser Poland
Powiat :	Nowy Targ
Gmina :	Jabłonka
Geographic location :	49 ° 31 '  N , 19 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '32 "  N , 19 ° 43' 1"  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)

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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

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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).
2. ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Województwo krakowskie i Śląsk Cieszyński . Warszawa 1925 (Polish, online ).
3. ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)