Rakowice (Krakow)

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Local church
School of the Piarists in 1933

Rakowice is a district of the city of Krakow and a former village that has been divided between the districts III Prądnik Czerwony and XIV Czyżyny since 1990 . It was often confused with the area around the Rakowicki Cemetery and Rakowicka Street in the Warszawskie district .

history

The royal village was first mentioned in 1244 as Rachouiz . The patronymic name is derived from the personal name Rak (for example Rac in 1207) with the typical West Slavic suffix - (ow) ice.

In the 15th century a royal manor with a fore and a mill was built.

When Poland was partitioned for the third time in 1795, it became part of the Habsburg Empire . In the years 1815–1846 the village belonged to the Republic of Kraków , in 1846 it was annexed to the Austrian Empire as part of the short-lived Grand Duchy of Kraków . From 1855 it was part of the Kraków District . Austrian soldiers from Krakow Fortress were also stationed in the village .

In 1900 the municipality of Rakowice had 245 hectares, 50 houses with 1014 inhabitants, of which 525 (51.8%) were Polish-speaking, 467 (46.1%) German-speaking, 13 (1.3%) other languages, except 990 ( 97.6%) Roman Catholics, there were 23 (2.3%) Jews.

In the early 20th century, a monastery of the Piarists was founded on the site of the Vorwerk , who built a church and a school (today a lyceum). In 1912 Flugpark 7 was built between Czyżyny and Rakowice with an area of ​​55 hectares. Rakowice was incorporated into Krakow by German occupiers in 1941, which was only confirmed by the Polish administration on October 25, 1948 with retroactive effect from January 18, 1945.

After the Second World War, several prefabricated housing estates were built.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kazimierz Rymut : Nazwy miejscowe północnej części dawnego województwa krakowskiego . Polska Akademia Nauk . Instytut Języka Polskiego, Wrocław 1967, p. 143 (Polish, online ).
  2. ↑ Ludwig Patryn (Ed.): Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat, edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900, XII. Galicia . Vienna 1907 ( online ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′  N , 19 ° 59 ′  E