Owczary (Sękowa)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lesser Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Gorlicki | ||
| Gmina : | Sękowa | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 36 ' N , 21 ° 10' E | ||
| Residents : | 251 (2009) | ||
| Postal code : | 38-307 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 18 | ||
| License plate : | KGR | ||
Owczary (until 1949 Rychwałd ) is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Sękowa in the powiat Gorlicki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .
geography
The place is in the Lower Beskids in the so-called Lemkenland .
history
The place was founded in the 14th century by German settlers as Richwald . It belonged to Dersław Karwacjan , the founder of Gorlice . In 1417 it was one of the first villages in the Lower Beskids to come under Wallachian law .
During the first partition of Poland , Owczary came to the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire in 1772 (from 1804).
In 1885 the village had 914 inhabitants, mostly Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Lemks , only 93 Catholics and 21 Jews.
In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Owczary came to Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II .
After the Second World War the Lemks were evacuated and the name became Owczary .
From 1975 to 1998 Owczary was part of the Nowy Sącz Voivodeship .
Attractions
- Greek Catholic Church, built in 1653, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List from 2013 , see the wooden churches of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine
Greek Catholic Church
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wojciech Krukar, Tadeusz Andrzej Olszański, Paweł Luboński and others: Beskid Niski. Przewodnik dla prawdziwego turysty . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2008, ISBN 978-83-62460-24-3 , p. 355-356 (Polish).