Sopotnia Mała

Sopotnia Mała
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Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Żywiec
Gmina :	Jeleśnia
Geographic location :	49 ° 37 '  N , 19 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '0 "  N , 19 ° 16' 38"  E
Residents :	1251 (2008)
Telephone code :	(+48) 33
License plate :	SZY

Sopotnia Mała is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Jeleśnia in the powiat Żywiecki of the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

The place lies on the brook Sopotnia in the Saybuscher Beskids ( Beskid Żywiecki ).

history

Since 1467 the Saybusch rule belonged to the noble Komorowski family, who ran a settlement campaign. The place was founded by the Wallachians on cleared land around the turn of the 15th century . The name is probably derived from the outdated word sopot , which means waterfall .

During the first partition of Poland in 1772 the village became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804).

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Sopotnia Mała 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 Saybusch in the administrative district of Katowice in the province of Silesia (since 1941 province of Upper Silesia ). As part of the so-called Aktion Saybusch , 57 Polish families (264 people) were expelled from Sopotnia Mała on September 22, 1940 in order to settle 11 ethnic German families (49 people). Other Poles were resettled to Sopotnia Wielka.

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stanisław Figiel, Urszula Janicka-Krzywda, Piotr Krzywda, Wojciech W. Wiśniewski: Beskid Żywiecki. Przewodnik . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2006, ISBN 83-8918859-7 , p. 432 (Polish).
2. ↑ Akcja wysiedleńcza na Żywiecczyźnie - wysiedlenia w Sopotni Małej
3. ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)