Piekary (Liszki)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lesser Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Krakowski | ||
| Gmina : | Liszki | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 2 ' N , 19 ° 48' E | ||
| Residents : | 1491 (2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 32-060 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 12 | ||
| License plate : | KRA | ||
Piekary is a village with a Schulzenamt of the Liszki municipality in the Krakowski powiat of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .
geography
Piekary is located on the left bank of the Vistula in the Cholerzyn Depression , opposite Kraków's Tyniec district . Apart from Krakow in the east, the neighboring towns are Ściejowice in the south, Rączna in the southwest, Liszki in the northwest, and Kryspinów in the north. The hills turn the Vistula valley into a small canyon , which is 380 m wide at the narrowest point between the Klasztorna hills with the Tyniecer Abbey and Skały Piekarskie in Piekary.
history
There are archaeological finds of the presence of the Neanderthals in the local caves nad Galoską and na Gołąbcu . There was a Slavic rampart on the Kozierówka hill in the 13th century .
The official settlement name Pekare ( piekarze - the bakers) was first mentioned in 1286.
When Poland was partitioned for the third time in 1795, Piekary became part of the Habsburg Empire . In the years 1815-1846 the village belonged to the Republic of Krakow , in 1846 it was annexed again as part of the Grand Duchy of Krakow to the countries of the Austrian Empire. From 1855 Piekary was part of the Kraków district . In the years 1857-1865 a palace was built on the site of the manor.
In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Piekary became part of Poland . This was interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II , where it belonged to the Krakow district in the Generalgouvernement .
From 1945 to 1998 Piekary was part of the Kraków Voivodeship.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Kazimierz Rymut : Nazwy miejscowe północnej części dawnego województwa krakowskiego . Polska Akademia Nauk . Instytut Języka Polskiego, Wrocław 1967, p. 123 (Polish, online ).