Szczakowa

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Szczakowa (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
District of: Jaworzno
Geographic location : 50 ° 14 '  N , 19 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '16 "  N , 19 ° 18' 32"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 32
License plate : SJ



Szczakowa (formerly also Szczaków ) is a former city, now a northern district of Jaworzno in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1427 as Sczacowa . The possessive name is derived from the personal name Szczak (for example, in 1377 Sczak ). In the local Lesser Poland dialect, it was pronounced as scakovo .

In 1519 Sczakow in the Starostei of Będzin was in royal possession. Administratively, the village belonged to the district Proszowice or Kraków of the Krakow Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland (from 1569 aristocratic republic Poland-Lithuania ).

In 1767 the first hard coal mine in what was then Poland was opened in Szczakowa, the beginning of the later Zagłębie Krakowskie (Krakow Mining District).

When Poland was partitioned for the third time in 1795, it became part of the Habsburg Empire . In the years 1815–1846 it belonged to the Republic of Krakow , in 1846 it was annexed again to the countries of the Austrian Empire as part of the Grand Duchy of Krakow . In 1847 the Kraków-Upper Silesian Railway was opened with a station in Szczakowa, followed the next year by the shorter railway line over the White Przemsza to Maczki in Congress Poland and the village became an important railway junction . After the abolition of patrimonial it formed a municipality in the Jaworzno judicial district in the Chrzanów district . In 1857 there were 573 inhabitants. A cement plant was opened in 1885 and a glassworks called Josephinenhütte in 1911 . In 1895/1896 it became the seat of an Austrian garrison. On July 3, 1896, Szczakowa was elevated to a town as one of 131 places in Galicia. The first mayor was Fryderyk Mandel, the previous Vogt. He was followed by Bernard Selinger and Samuel Boehm.

In 1900 the municipality of Szczakowa had an area of ​​957 hectares, 293 houses with 2778 inhabitants, of which 2395 were Polish-speaking, 242 German-speaking, 45 other languages; 2338 were Roman Catholics, there were 397 Jews, 12 Evangelicals and 31 other faiths.

In the interwar period , Szczakowa belonged to the Powiat Chrzanowski of the Cracow Voivodeship . According to the 1921 census, Szczakowa was a village , but counted between the towns in the Jaworzno judicial district, had 355 houses with 2898 inhabitants, the majority of whom were Roman Catholic (2841) Poles (2894). In 1923 the football club Szczakowianka Jaworzno was founded. In 1933 the place received city ​​rights again . During the attack on Poland in 1939, the area was occupied by the Germans and assigned to the district of Krenau in the new "East Upper Silesia". In 1956 Szczakowa was annexed to the city of Jaworzno.

  • Railway station in Szczakowa

  • Glassworks

  • Former Austrian barracks

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kazimierz Rymut : Nazwy miejscowe północnej części dawnego województwa krakowskiego . Polska Akademia Nauk . Instytut Języka Polskiego, Wrocław 1967, p. 164 (Polish, online ).
  2. ↑ Maria Leś-Runicka: Nasze dzielnice: Szczakowa - miasto (Polish)
  3. ↑ Ludwig Patryn (Ed.): Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat, edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900, XII. Galicia . Vienna 1907.
  4. ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Województwo krakowskie i Śląsk Cieszyński . Warszawa 1925, p. 9 [PDF: 19] (Polish, Woj.krakowskie i Sląsk Cieszynski miejscowości.pdf ).

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