Swoszowa

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Swoszowa
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Swoszowa (Poland)
Swoszowa
Swoszowa
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : Tarnowski
Gmina : Szerzyny
Geographic location : 49 ° 50 '  N , 21 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '13 "  N , 21 ° 13' 4"  E
Residents : 651 (2007)
Telephone code : (+48) 14
License plate : KTA



Swoszowa is a village in the Szerzyny municipality in the Tarnowski powiat of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .

Wooden church in Swoszowa, built in 1958

geography

The place is located in Pogórze Ciężkowickie , in the Pasma Brzanki Landscape Protection Park, south of the Brzanka ridge (534 m). The neighboring towns are Ołpiny and Szerzyny in the south, Żurowa in the west, Joniny and Kowalowa in the north, Jodłowa in the northeast, and Czermna in the southeast.

history

The place was founded before the year 1369. The name is indicative of possession, derived from the personal name Swosz (owner, tenant or settler), which was mentioned, for example, in 1485 as Stanislaum Swoss de Lupcza (...) rothmagistr (um) , by a cavalry master from the nearby (8 km) Lubcza village .

The village belonged to the Kingdom of Poland (from 1569 aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania ), Krakow Voivodeship , Biecz District .

During the first partition of Poland in 1772 Swoszowa became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804). From 1855 Swoszowa belonged to the Jasło District .

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

From 1975 to 1998 Swoszowa was part of the Tarnów Voivodeship .

Individual evidence

  1. MW Solarz, 2016, p. 73.

literature

  • Marcin Wojciech Solarz: Nazwy wsi źródłem wiedzy o przeszłości na przykładzie toponimów z doliny Olszynki na Pogórzu Ciężkowickim . [Village names as a source of knowledge of the past: toponyms in the Olszynka Valley in the Ciężkowickie Foothills]. In: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis . Folia Geographica Socio-Oeconomica. No. 25 , 2016, ISSN  1508-1117 , p. 63–81 , doi : 10.18778 / 1508-1117.25.04 (Polish, online ).

Web pages

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