Powiat Makowski (Podhalański)

Location of the Powiat Makowski in the Krakow Voivodeship

The Powiat Makowski was a powiat (district) that existed in the western part of the Polish Kraków Voivodeship from 1924 to 1932 . It covered 823 km² with 67,378 inhabitants (as of 1921). The seat of the district administration was in Maków Podhalański . It roughly corresponded to today's powiat Suski in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship , but also included some communities in the eastern Powiat Żywiecki in the Silesian Voivodeship . With a degree of urbanization of 14.6% it belonged to the rural districts.

geography

It was in the West Beskids and was enclosed by the districts of Wadowice , Myślenice , Żywiec and Nowy Targ . In the southwest the powiat still had a small share of the state border with Czechoslovakia .

history

The powiat arose on January 1, 1924 from the former Galician judicial district Sucha in the powiat Żywiecki (the city Sucha (Beskidzka) and 8 municipalities: Lachowice , Kocoń , Krzeszów , Kurów , Kuków , Pewel, Stryszawa , and Ślemień ), as well as the judicial districts Jordanów (the city and 20 parishes) and Maków (the city of Maków (Podhalański) and 10 parishes). On November 30, 1929, the parishes of Chabówka , Ponica and Rdzawka from the powiat Nowotarski were joined, but Rdzawka returned on July 23, 1930.

The emergence of the powiat met with resistance. B. on the western edge, where the local population preferred belonging to Żywiec. The powiat Makowski was dissolved on April 1, 1932 and divided into the surrounding districts of Wadowice, Żywiec, Myślenice and Nowy Targ.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Excluding the Raba Wyżna community ( Dz.U. z 1923 r. Nr 105, pos. 817)
2. ↑ Dz.U. z 1923 r. no 122, pos. 991
3. ↑ Dz.U. z 1929 r. no 81, poz. 600
4. ↑ Dz.U. z 1930 r. no 51, poz. 429
5. ↑ Józef Hampel, Feliks Kiryk: Sucha Beskidzka . Wydawnictwo i Drukarnia "SECESJA", Kraków 1998, ISBN 83-8734565-2 , p. 217-218 (Polish).
6. ↑ Dz.U. z 1932 r. no 1, pos. 3