Roczyny
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lesser Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Wadowice | ||
| Gmina : | Andrychów | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 51 ′ N , 19 ° 19 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 4186 (2014) | ||
| Postal code : | 34-120 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 33 | ||
| License plate : | KWA | ||
Roczyny is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Andrychów in the powiat Wadowicki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship , Poland .
geography
Roczyny is located in the Silesian Foothills ( Pogórze Śląskie ) under the Little Beskids ( Beskid Mały ).
The village has an area of 838 hectares .
Neighboring towns are the city of Andrychów in the northeast, Targanice in the southeast, Brzezinka in the south, and Bulowice in the west.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1457 as Rocziny , when it was bought by Poland with the Duchy of Auschwitz .
During the first partition of Poland , Roczyny came to the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire in 1772 (from 1804).
In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , Roczyny 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 ).
From 1975 to 1998 Roczyny was part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .
In 1980 the Roman Catholic parish was established.
Sons and daughters of the church
- Czesław Kiszczak (born October 19, 1925 in Roczyny, † November 5, 2015 in Warsaw), politician, Deputy Prime Minister
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ UG Andrychów: Statute Sołectwa Roczyny. In: bip.ugbuczkowice.rekord.pl. Retrieved December 1, 2010 (Polish).
- ^ Krzysztof Rafał Prokop: Księstwa oświęcimskie i zatorskie wobec Korony Polskiej w latach 1438-1513. Dzieje polityczne . PAU , Kraków 2002, ISBN 83-8885731-2 , p. 151 (Polish).
- ↑ Register of local authorities in the Bielitz district [as of January 1, 1945]. Retrieved July 23, 2015 .
- ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)
