Porąbka (Powiat Bielski)

Porąbka
	Porąbka
	Porąbka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Bielsko-Biała
Geographic location :	49 ° 49 ' N , 19 ° 13' E Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '58 " N , 19 ° 13' 5" E
Residents :	3959 (2012)
Postal code :	43-353
Telephone code :	(+48) 33
License plate :	SBI
Gmina
Gminatype:	Rural community
Gmina structure:	4 school offices
Surface:	64.59 km²
Residents:	15,582 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	241 inhabitants / km²
Community number ( GUS ):	2402082
administration
Address:	ul.Krakowska 3 ; 43-353 Porąbka
Website :	www.porabka.pl
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Town view

Porąbka ( German Porombka ) is a village and seat of the municipality of the same name in the Powiat Bielski of the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

Porąbka is located in the Silesian Foothills under the Little Beskids on the Soła , about 15 km east of Bielsko-Biała and 50 km south of Katowice in the Powiat (district) Bielsko-Biała.

Neighboring towns are Kobiernice in the north-west, Czaniec in the north-east, Międzybrodzie Żywieckie in the south, Międzybrodzie Bialskie in the south-west.

history

The place probably originated in the early 15th century under the Wołek Castle . It was first mentioned in 1444 as Poramka . The place name Porąbka is a diminutive form (suffix -ka) of Poręba (German "forest clearing", "clear cut").

Politically, the village originally belonged to the Duchy of Auschwitz under the feudal rule of the Kingdom of Bohemia . On July 22, 1452, the Głęboki brook became the border between Czaniec and Porąbka, which belonged to Włodek von Skrzynna and his wife Katarzyna von Słupna. This is the first documentary evidence of the presence of Skrzyński family in the precincts of Zywiec (including Porąbka), which probably was already in possession of that family. In the years 1460–1465 the Skrzyński family led a grueling activity as robber barons in the Polish-Silesian border area, which forced the military intervention of the Polish king Casimir IV . The Skrzyński family was forced to sell the area to the Polish king in 1465, but the village was not mentioned in the sales statement.

During the first partition of Poland , Porąbka became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire in 1772 (from 1804). In 1773 the Wieliczka district (Polish : cyrkuł wielicki ) was set up on the site of the dissolved Silesia District , which included the Biala district (from 1775 with the seat in Zator ) with Porąbka. In 1782 the area of the Zator district became an independent district with its seat in Myślenice (from 1819 in Wadowice ). After the abolition of patrimonial it formed a parish in the judicial district of Kęty of the Biała district from 1850 .

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Porąbka came to Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II . It then belonged to the district of Bielitz in the administrative district of Katowice in the province of Silesia (since 1941 province of Upper Silesia ).

In 1970 the construction of the recreational complex Kozubnik was finished, actually a self-sufficient town for the party elite with swimming pools, restaurants, hotels etc. After 1989 it was completely abandoned and became a ghost town . The complex was only renovated from 2016.

From 1975 to 1998 Porąbka was part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .