Stary Sącz

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Stary Sącz
Stary Sącz coat of arms
Stary Sącz (Poland)
Stary Sącz
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : Nowy Sącz
Gmina : Stary Sącz
Area : 15  km²
Geographic location : 49 ° 34 '  N , 20 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '45 "  N , 20 ° 38' 11"  E
Residents : 9056 (December 31, 2016)
Postal code : 33-340
Telephone code : (+48) 18
License plate : KNS
Economy and Transport
Street : DK87



panorama
City center
Poor Clare Monastery
Elisabeth Church

Stary Sącz ( German Alt Sandez ) is a town and seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name in the powiat Nowosądecki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland in the historical region of Sandezer Land .

geography

The place is located on the right bank of the Dunajec River at the mouth of the Poprad River , in the Sandez Basin ( Kotlina Sądecka ).

The neighboring towns are Nowy Sącz in the north-east, Moszczenica Niżna and Barcice Dolne in the south, Stadła , Podegrodzie and Mostki in the west, Podrzecze in the north.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1257. In that year Kinga of Poland , from 1239 Polish Duchess of Lesser Poland, received the entire area in the triangle Biecz - Limanowa - Podolínec . In (Stary) Sącz she founded a monastery of the Poor Clares. Kinga of Poland entered the Poor Clares in 1279. The Poor Clares founded many new villages in the area and owned 28 villages in later centuries. In 1298 the new town of Nowy Sącz ( New Sandez ) was founded downstream on the Dunajec River.

After the First Partition of Poland , Stary Sącz became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804).

The villages belonging to the Poor Clares were nationalized. In the course of Josephine colonization in German colonists were settled often, for example, was at the bottom of Vorwerk of the Poor Clares in the city in 1784 a German colony Neudorfel founded.

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Stary Sącz came to Poland. This was interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II , during which it belonged to the Generalgouvernement .

From 1975 to 1998 Stary Sącz was part of the Nowy Sącz Voivodeship .

Attractions

local community

The urban and rural community ( gmina miejsko-wiejska ) includes the city of Stary Sącz and 15 localities with a school administration office ( sołectwo ).

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Kazimierz Badeni (1846–1909) - Prime Minister of the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy
  • Andrzej Duda (* 1972) - President of the Republic of Poland

Town twinning

literature

  • Bogdan Mościcki: Beskid Sądecki. Przewodnik . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2007, ISBN 978-83-8918865-6 , p. 230-238 (Polish).

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