Skawinki

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Skawinki (Poland)
Skawinki
Skawinki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : Wadowice
Gmina : Lanckorona
Geographic location : 49 ° 49 '  N , 19 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '22 "  N , 19 ° 42' 41"  E
Height : 350-535 m npm
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 33
License plate : KWA



Skawinki is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality of Lanckorona in the powiat Wadowicki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

The place is located on the Skawinka River on the eastern slope of Mount Chełm (603 m) in the Central Beskids .

The neighboring towns are Leśnica and Lanckorona in the north, Zachełmna , Baczyn and Palcza in the south, and Stronie in the west.

history

The founding privilege of the village was issued at Lanckorona Castle by Casimir the Great in 1359.

From the later 14th / earlier 15th century up to 1889 it belonged to the Starostei Lanckorona.

With the first partition of Poland in 1772 Skawinki came to the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804). At that time the village belonged to Rainer von Austria .

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Skawinki came to Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II . It then belonged to the General Government .

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

Attractions

  • Catholic wooden church, transferred from Przytkowice in 1956 , built there in the later 15th / early 16th centuries, thoroughly rebuilt in 1733;

Individual evidence

  1. a b Julian Zinkow: Wokół Kalwarii Zebrzydowskiej i lanckorona . Wydawnictwo "CALVARIANUM", Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2000, ISBN 83-8739541-2 , p. 301-303 (Polish).
  2. Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish, PDF; 783 kB)