Cieszyn
Cieszyn | ||
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Silesia | |
Powiat : | Cieszyn | |
Area : | 28.69 km² | |
Geographic location : | 49 ° 45 ' N , 18 ° 38' E | |
Residents : | 34,513 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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Postal code : | 43-400 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 33 | |
License plate : | SCI | |
Economy and Transport | ||
Street : | Bielsko-Biała - Frýdek-Místek / Ostrava | |
Rail route : | Ustroń - Ostrava | |
Next international airport : | Katowice Airport | |
Gmina | ||
Gminatype: | Borough | |
Residents: | 34,513 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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Community number ( GUS ): | 2403011 | |
Administration (as of 2015) | ||
Mayor : | Ryszard Macura | |
Address: | Rynek 1 43-400 Cieszyn |
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Website : | www.um.cieszyn.pl |
Cieszyn [ 'ʨɛʃɨn ] ( German Teschen , Czech Těšín ) is the part of the Polish-Czech twin town of Cieszyn / Český Těšín in the Silesian Voivodeship in the south of Poland .
geography
Cieszyn is located in the west of the Silesian Foothills ( Pogórze Śląskie ), part of the Western Beskids belonging to the Carpathian Mountains . It lies on the western edge of the Beskid foothills . Cieszyn is a border town with the Czech Republic . The border to the Czech half of the city of Český Těšín is formed by the river Olsa (Olza in Polish) leading to the Oder , over which three road bridges with border crossings lead in the city area. The largest bridge has a span of 760 m. Cieszyn is located in the district of Powiat Cieszyński in the Silesian Voivodeship and borders the municipality of Hażlach in the north, the municipality of Dębowiec in the northeast and the municipality of Goleszów in the southeast . The voivodeship capital Katowice is about 70 km north.
The urban area has an area of 28.69 km² and makes up 3.93% of the area of the district. It consists of 55% arable land and 7% forests.
South-east of Cieszyn in the Silesian Beskids on the 1257 m high Skrzyczne mountain lies one of the largest Polish winter sports areas.
City structure
The population development over the last few decades shows a sustained trend towards moving out of the city center to the outskirts.
Districts | Residents 1985 | Population 1997 |
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Stare Miasto (old town) | 7.185 | 6,053 |
Mała Łąka (Little Meadow) | 575 | 436 |
Liburnia | 9.227 | 9,571 |
Bobrek (Bobrek / Bobersdorf) | 2,344 | 3,040 |
Podgórze | 7,598 | 7,945 |
Błogocice (Blogotitz) | 5,445 | 5,560 |
Boguszowice (Boguschowitz) | 430 | 361 |
Marklowice (Marklowitz) | 590 | 935 |
Kalembice (Kalembitz) | 765 | 970 |
Pastwiska (Pastwisk) | 936 | 1,712 |
Krasna (Krasna / Schöndorf) | 478 | 525 |
Gułdowy (Guldau) | 180 | 193 |
Mnisztwo (Mönichhof) | 407 | 388 |
All in all | 36.163 | 38,115 |
etymology
The place is first documented by sources in a document issued by Pope Hadrian IV in 1155 , which mentions it as Tescin . The name is derived from the first name of the original owner * Ciecha, * Ciesza (≤ Chiech-ja ), Ciechosław, such as B. Ticino . In the 13th century, other variants of the place name appear: Tessin (1223), Thesin (1228), Tesin (1239), Tesschin (1258), Cessin (1288). Apparently in connection with the settlement of the surrounding area by German colonists initiated by the Silesian dukes , the German name Teschen (1312) finally prevailed.
The Polish name Cieszyn is derived from the verb cieszyć , which can be translated as (to be) happy , and refers to the founding legend, according to which the city was founded by the three brothers Leszek, Cieszek and Bolek in the place where it was met and were happy about the meeting. According to the founding legend, this should have happened in 810.
history
Emergence
According to tradition, a meeting of the three prince brothers Leszko, Bolko and Cieszko was the reason to found today's Cieszyn in 810. In fact, there are traces of an ancient settlement of the castle hill ( Slavic castle wall ) from the 6th century BC. Since the 6th century the West Slavic Golensizen settled , who in the 7th century built a settlement with a castle in Old Teschen in today's Chotebuz - Podobora . This settlement was destroyed in the 9th century, probably during fighting between the Great Moravian Empire under Svatopluk and the Wislanes . The residents no longer rebuilt the settlement in the same place, but moved about 5 km up the Olsa and chose today's castle hill as a new settlement, which probably belonged to the territory of the Great Moravian Empire from the end of the 9th century.
Poland
The Slavic ramparts came to Poland along with all of Silesia at the end of the 10th century. The oldest preserved buildings in the city date from the 11th century . The city itself was mentioned for the first time in 1155. At that time, Cieszyn belonged to the Duchy of Silesia , which was part of the Seniorate of Poland , after Bolesław III's will in 1138 . Wry-mouthed the Polish particularism was founded. This split up into several duchies in 1173, including the Duchy of Ratibor , which came to the Duchy of Opole in 1202 . In 1281 the Duchy of Teschen was created from the Duchy of Opole as a result of an inheritance division . The current streets of the old town were built during the 12th and 13th centuries. The Wroclaw Bishop Lorenz mentioned the city in 1223, so the foundation of the city according to the Löwenberg city law must have taken place beforehand. This makes Cieszyn one of the oldest cities in Silesia and all of Poland. In 1240 the church of St. Maria was built first as a parish church with a parish school and later as a monastery church of the Dominicans , whose monastery was built in Cieszyn until 1270.
The first Duke of Teschen was Mieszko I , who expanded the castle into a ducal seat. After his death in 1315, his territory was also divided among his sons, and the Duchy of Auschwitz was separated from the Duchy of Teschen. The latter fell to Casimir I , who in 1327 placed himself under the sovereignty of Bohemia together with the Opole dukes of Ratibor , Falkenberg , Strehlitz and Auschwitz , which the Kujawi Piasts , who had taken over the Polish throne in 1320, recognized with the Treaty of Trenčín in 1335 .
Silesian Piasts under Bohemian feudal sovereignty
The subsequent economic development, which was due to the favorable location on Kaiserstraße from Vienna to Krakow, prompted Duke Przemko I to grant Magdeburg city rights to the place in 1374 . In 1416 his son Bolko I confirmed the town's privileges and possessions, in particular the villages of Bürgersdorf and Krasna and the black water ponds. In addition, he gave the city the right to inheritance. In 1496, Duke Casimir II sold land to the city to build a town hall and a market square.
Under the ruling from 1545 Duke Wenceslaus III. the Reformation was introduced throughout the duchy . Although Duke Adam Wenzel converted back to Catholicism in 1610, Cieszyn continued to be a majority Lutheran. The last Silesian Piasts were largely tolerant of their subjects of different faiths. During the Thirty Years' War , Cieszyn was plundered several times by imperial and Swedish troops. The Renaissance-style castle was destroyed by Swedish soldiers in 1646. After the extinction of Cieszyn branch of the Silesian Piasts with Duchess Elizabeth Lucretia 1654 fell Cieszyn along with the Duchy of Teschen by escheat to the Crown of Bohemia , 1526 to the Habsburg had arrived.
Habsburgs
After Cieszyn was taken over by the Habsburgs, the Protestant pastor was expelled from the city as part of the Counter-Reformation and the parish church Maria Magdalena was handed over to the Catholic community. In 1670 the Jesuit order built the Holy Cross Church , in 1675 a grammar school. After some of the evangelicals had emigrated and some of them withdrew into secret Protestantism , Teschen was a Catholic city in 1683. At the same time, the economic importance fell with the number of inhabitants. It was not until 1707 when the Swedish King Karl XII. The Altranstadt Convention , which was enforced, allowed the Teschen Evangelicals to build their own church again in the city. The construction of the Gnadenkirche from 1709 to 1730 with 8,000 seats, until 1751 with a 72 meter high tower, marked an intellectual turning point. The Jesus Church , the largest of the six approved grace churches in Silesia , is still used today, after more than 300 years, as a Protestant church (see section Religion ).
From 1722, Duke Leopold Joseph Karl von Lothringen , father of the later Emperor Franz I Stephan , resided in Teschen. After the First Silesian War in 1742, as a result of which most of Silesia fell to Prussia, Teschen remained with the Bohemian sovereign and was incorporated into the newly created Austrian Silesia . In the course of the First Partition of Poland , Lesser Poland , east of Cieszyn, came to the Habsburgs as the Kingdom of Galicia , whereby Cieszyn lost its peripheral position in the Habsburg Empire and was located centrally between Vienna and Krakow . On May 13, 1779, the Treaty of Teschen was concluded between Archduchess Maria Theresa in her capacity as Queen of Bohemia and Frederick II , which ended the War of the Bavarian Succession . Teschen owned the only officially recognized Protestant parish in Austria, headed by a consistory. The Jesus School was elevated to a high school. The influence of the Teschener Gnadenkirche extended to the secret Protestantism in all of Austria. The church is still considered to be the mother church of the Cieszyn diocese , which, although its seat is in Bielsko-Biała, is named after the city of Teschen. In 1790 there were only 181 Lutherans in Teschen (6.7% of the city's residents); but the parish included around 6,000 predominantly Polish-speaking farmers in the neighboring villages.
The number of Jews rose gradually after the tolerance patent of 1713 and 1781. In the 18th century, the extensive trade in Teschen was almost monopolized by Italian merchants.
From 1766 to 1822 Maria Theresa's son-in-law, Prince Albert of Saxony , was regent of the city under the title Duke of Saxony-Teschen . In the family list of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen, the “general line” formed an important branch up to the 20th century; their representatives called themselves Archdukes of Austria-Teschen. In the late 18th century, German culture began to dominate the city again, thanks in part to the new educational policy that was introduced in Teschen in German. From the early 19th century, the townspeople were predominantly German-speaking or bilingual, as many of them, who were of Slavic origin, had learned the German language.
After Austria's defeat by Napoleon in the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, the Viennese government temporarily had its seat in Teschen. Duke Karl tore down large parts of the ruins of Teschen Castle and from 1838 built the hunting lodge , the castle park and the Cieszyn castle brewery on the castle hill. Emperor Franz Joseph I stayed in the city several times between 1851 and 1906. In the course of industrialization in the 19th century, several factories, mainly for the textile and wood industry, were also built in Teschen. The city became the railway junction of the northern line Kojetein – Bielitz and the Kaschau-Oderberger Bahn . After that an important society of Magyars lived in Teschen .
Since 1783 the seat of a Kreishauptmannschaft ( Teschner county ), Teschen with the Austrian constitutional reform of 1849 was the seat of a district administration and a district court in the restored crown land Austrian Silesia. In 1872, under Franz Sniegon (Franciszek Śniegoń) , Teschen became the seat of the Vicariate General of the Diocese of Wroclaw in Austria-Hungary, which continued to exist after Sniegon.
In 1880 Teschen had 13,004 inhabitants. It was a linguistically and religiously mixed city. The 1910 census showed a population of 22,489; Of these, a majority of 62% or 13,254 people were German-speaking, 6,832 were Polish-speaking and a further 1,437 used Bohemian / Moravian as a colloquial language. 15,138 inhabitants were Catholic, 5,137 Evangelical Lutheran, 37 Reformed and a further 2,112 were Jewish.
In 1895 the first Polish private secondary school in all of Silesia was opened by Macierz Szkolna dla Księstwa Cieszyńskiego .
First World War
During the First World War , the army high command formed by the Kaiser especially for the war under Archduke Friedrich von Österreich-Teschen , the command center of all Austro-Hungarian armed forces , was established in Teschen in the summer of 1914. At the end of November 1916 it moved under the new Emperor Karl I , since the focus of the fighting had meanwhile shifted to the south of the dual monarchy , to Weilburg Castle , a property of Friedrich in Baden near Vienna .
On the German People's Day in Teschen in May 1918, the Teschener Germans were instructed by the lawyer Riehl, who came from Vienna, and described as "nationally unreliable", in contrast to the Germans from the Bielitz-Bialaer Sprachinsel , who on Volkstag may be the majority of the around 5,000 participants represented.
In late May 1918, the German People's Council for Eastern Silesia was founded in Teschen , a union of German parties in the area. The politicians from Bielitz were the most active in this, but the council was also unanimously supported by the Teschen city administration. He strove to remain with Austria, and if that were not possible, to join Germany. In October 1918, the city administration prevented the Rada Narodowa Księstwa Cieszyńskiego from taking power in the city ([Polish] National Council of the Duchy of Cieszyn, RNKC); on October 25th it declared autonomy and annexation to German Austria . On November 5, 1918, the RNKC and the Czech Regional Committee (Zemský národní výbor, ZNV) agreed that Teschen should fall to Poland, regardless of the Germans and the Schlonsaken who were against the Polish national movement (see Józef Kożdoń ).
Second Polish Republic
When sovereign Czechoslovakia , proclaimed on October 28, 1918 , came into being at the end of the First World War , Teschen found itself between the fronts of the Polish-Czechoslovak border war . Both countries claimed the economically strong region without a regulation being created in the autumn of 1919 in the Treaty of Saint-Germain . Although the Polish government had already announced the Sejm elections for the city of Teschen, Czech soldiers marched into Teschen on January 23, 1919, which resulted in several deaths on both sides.
Only an arbitration decision by the victorious powers ended the conflict in July 1920. The city of Teschen was divided along the Olsa ; the old town with the historic castle hill came to Poland, Czechoslovakia had to be content with the western suburb with the station on the Kaschau-Oderberger Railway, which is important to them. The Polish part, Cieszyn, was incorporated into the Silesian Autonomous Voivodeship with the capital Katowice .
In 1921 Cieszyn had 15,268 inhabitants, of which 9,241 (60.5%) Poles, 4,777 (31.2%) Germans, 1014 (6.6%) Jews, 195 (1.3%) Czechs. In 1931 the city had 14,707 inhabitants, of which 12,145 (82.7%) Poles, around 12% Germans and around 8% Jews.
Second World War
The Munich Agreement of 1938 gave Poland an opportunity to occupy the part of the Teschener Land west of the Olsa on October 2, 1938. The divided city was thus reunited and designated as the administrative seat of the newly formed Polish district of Cieszyn (Powiat cieszyński) . However, the Polish rule lasted only eleven months; because when the attack on Poland at the beginning of the Second World War , the German Wehrmacht occupied the Teschen district in September 1939. On October 26, 1939, the city, now called Teschen again, became the district town of the German district of Teschen . In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army . The demarcation of the Potsdam Agreement restored the division of the city into a Czech and a Polish part in the same year. The local residents of German origin were expelled under threat of violence .
People's Republic of Poland
In the People's Republic of Poland in Cieszyn numerous factories, including the "Olza" Fabryka Maszyn Elektrycznych emerged EMA Celma , Zakłady Przemysłu Dziewiarskiego Juvenia , Zakłady Doświadczalne Telemechaniki Górniczej Elektrometal , Polifarb Cieszyn , FACH , Cefana , Wytwórnia Naczyń Stołowych Polwid , Zakłady Sprzętu Elektrogrzejnego Termika , Zampol . Nevertheless, Bielsko-Biała became the industrial and administrative center of the region. From 1975 to 1998 Cieszyn was in the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship . The border crossing at Cieszyn was the largest on the Polish-Czechoslovak border.
Third Polish Republic
Since 1998 Teschen has been the capital of the Euroregion Teschener Silesia . Poland and the Czech Republic joined the Schengen Agreement in 2007 , eliminating the need for border control posts at the Olsa bridges. In 2010 the city celebrated its 1200th anniversary. It is known nationwide as a city with a long brewing tradition and as a production site for sweets, especially for culinary reasons. It is associated with the Brackie beer brand and the Prince Polo chocolate waffle , which has been produced in Cieszyn since 1952 and is well-known beyond Poland .
In 2014 Cieszyn and in 2015 Český Těšín were given the honorary title “City of the Reformation of Europe ” by the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe .
Incorporations
In the course of the 20th century, the following localities were incorporated as districts:
- 1923: Błogocice (Blogotitz)
- 1932: Bobrek
- 1973: Boguszowice (Boguschowitz), Kalembice (Kalembitz), Krasna , Mnisztwo (Mönichhof), Pastwiska (Pastwisk)
- 1977: Marklowice (Marklowitz)
Historical views
Teschen around 1640 to Merian
Teschen Castle around 1650
religion
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church is represented in Cieszyn by seven parishes that belong to the Bielsko-Żywiec diocese , a suffragan diocese of the Krakow Archdiocese :
- Parish of Mary Magdalene
- Parish of St. George
- Parish of St. Elisabeth
- Parish of Mary
- Parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Parish of John the Baptist
- Parish of Divine Providence
Lutheran
The city is named after the diocese of Cieszyn , the smallest of the six dioceses of the Evangelical-Augsburg (Lutheran) Church in Poland in terms of area ; However, the official seat is Bielsko-Biała .
Cieszyn is also the location of the Evangelical Church of Grace to the Name of Jesus (Jesus Church), one of originally six Silesian Churches of Grace that were allowed to be built in 1707 by the "grace" of Emperor Joseph I in what is actually Catholic Silesia. Of the only four surviving churches, the one in Cieszyn is the only one that is still used as a Protestant church after 300 years.
In the city are the Old Evangelical Cemetery and the Evangelical Cemetery from the 19th century.
Other Christian churches
There are also parishes of seven other Christian faiths in Teschen:
- Baptists
- Seventh-day Adventists
- three different Pentecostal churches
- Brethren Movement
- Jehovah's Witnesses
Judaism
There are two Jewish cemeteries in the city, the old cemetery from the middle of the 17th century and the new cemetery from the beginning of the 20th century.
traffic
Road traffic
The Polish national road 1 , which leads to Gdansk (part of the European route 75 ), and the S1 expressway , which leads to Krakow , begin in Cieszyn . The voivodship road 938 leads from Cieszyn to Pawłowice and is the shortest connection from Cieszyn to the Upper Silesian industrial area . Local roads lead to Skoczów , Ustroń , Dębowciec and Leszna Górna . Due to the increasing number of cars in the city center, parking within the city center has been made chargeable.
Local public transport
Tram traffic was stopped at the beginning of the 20th century. There is a network of city bus connections, the hub of which is the main train station. The connections lead to the nearby villages, including Hażlach , Pogwizdów , Kaczyce and Gumna .
omnibus
Numerous private bus companies operate in Cieszyn, offering connections to nearby towns and villages, as well as to Kraków , Katowice , Krosno , Bielsko-Biała , Jastrzębie-Zdrój , Gliwice and Wrocław .
railroad
Cieszyn has been connected to the Kaschau-Oderberger Bahn network since 1869 . With the connection to the Silesian and Galician city railway line in 1888 , Cieszyn became a rail hub. The train stations in Cieszyn are operated by Koleje Śląskie .
Sports
There are numerous sports clubs in Cieszyn, the most traditional of which are / were:
- Sokół Gymnastics Society from 1891
- Piast Cieszyn sports club from 1909
During the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2009 , the figure skating competitions took place in the multifunctional hall in Cieszyn.
natural reserve
In Cieszyn, green spaces take up 23% of the urban area, forests make up 7%. The tree population is relatively dense even in the center. There are three nature reserves in the urban area:
- Lasek Miejski nad Puńcówką nature reserve
- Lasek Miejski nad Olzą nature reserve
- Kopce nature reserve
education
In Cieszyn there are nine primary schools, five grammar schools, ten Lyceen and other secondary schools of the upper level as well as a college and two branches of the Silesian University with headquarters in Katowice .
tourism
Attractions
Castle Hill
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Castle hill of Teschen Castle with, after 1653, seat of the ducal domain administration, the so-called "Teschen Chamber":
- the Romanesque rotunda of St. Nicholas and St. Wenceslaus from the 11th century,
- the Gothic keep from the 13th century,
- the Gothic Piast Tower from the 14th century
- the classicist hunting lodge (summer residence of the Habsburgs, architect: Joseph Kornhäusel , 1838–1840, in the style of Viennese classicism)
- the castle brewery from the 19th century (design: J. Kornhäusel)
Old town
- Marketplace
- Town hall (design: A. Kment, 1844),
- Town houses on the market square
- Hotel "Zum Braunen Hirsch" (in Viennese Art Nouveau based on plans by K. Köhler, 1912)
- Florian fountain on the market square
- the Gothic-Baroque parish church of St. Maria Magdalena on plac Dominikański, former Dominican church, from the 13th century, baroque reconstruction after a fire in the 18th century, Church of the Holy Sepulcher of the Silesian Piasts with the sarcophagus of Duke Przemysław Noszak of Teschen
- the 14th century Gothic church of St. George , originally a chapel
- the baroque monastery of the Brothers of Mercy and the Church of the Assumption of Mary , built in the years 1697–1714, rebuilt in 1788
- Renaissance Church of the Trinity on plac Londzina, late Renaissance building from 1594 with a neo-Gothic tower from 1864
- Holy Cross Church on Szersznika Street, originally a Jesuit chapel and ducal chapel, with statues of St. Joseph and St. Ignatius of Loyola from the middle of the 19th century, next to the former Franciscan monastery from the 18th century
- Three Brothers Fountain on Trzech Braci Street, from the 19th century (commemorates the legendary founders of the city, the brothers Leszko, Bolko and Cieszko)
- Adam Mickiewicz Theater on plac Teatralny, Viennese Art Nouveau from the early 20th century
- Museum of Teschener Silesia in the Larisch Palace from 1796 on ulica Regera, with the Gothic sculpture of the "Teschener Madonna" (around 1375 from the workshop of Peter Parler )
- Town houses in the old town of Teschen
Church square
- Plac Kościelny, the center of the Teschen evangelical community (its activities were forbidden from 1653–1709); lay here
- the late Baroque church of Jesus on plac Kościelny, Evangelical Augsburg Confession , built 1710-1722, architects: J. J. House Rücker and J. Ried from Opava , tower from 1750, main altar by J. Pratzker (1766) with the Last Supper by F. Oezer that largest Lutheran church in Poland, for about 6000 people
- the former Protestant school (so-called "barn") from 1725
- the former Protestant grammar school, neo-Gothic from 1869 (" Alumneum ")
- the parish house and the rectory on the church square
center
- former provincial parliament, from the end of the 17th century, for the gatherings of the nobility from the Duchy of Teschen
- Courthouse in Viennese neo-baroque style from 1905 (in the Hall Themis - figure by E. Hegenbarth from Vienna)
- Art Nouveau post office based on a design by M. Dalf from 1909
- Redoutensaal , built in 1726 as a theater, now a cinema
- General hospital of the Protestant community of Teschen ("Silesian Hospital", founded in 1892, architect Waldemar Osterloff )
- Convent and hospital of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth on Liburnia Street, built 1900–1903
- Monastery of the Borromean Sisters , now a sanatorium and nursing home
- Houses on the Olsa Canal, called "Teschener Venice"
- Former ducal mint on plac Teatralny, now the seat of the Teschen library
- Building at Obertor from the 19th / 20th centuries century
graveyards
- Old Jewish cemetery on Hażlaska Street from the middle of the 17th century
- New Jewish cemetery on Hażlaska Street since 1907
- Old Evangelical cemetery at the Jesus Church, plac Kościelny
- Evangelical cemetery at ul.Bielska since 1887
- Municipal cemetery at Katowicka Street from 1891
- War cemetery from the First World War
Tourist street
The city is the starting point of the Via Ducalis tourist route .
Hiking trails
Six marked hiking and walking trails run through the urban area.
Long-distance cycle paths
Four marked long-distance cycle paths run through Teschen .
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Jiří Třanovský (1592–1637), hymn poet and composer
- Vincent Cheap (1777-1832), Apostolic Field Vicar
- Carl Friedrich Kotschy (1789–1856), botanist and theologian
- Franz Sniegon (1809–1891), first auxiliary bishop of the Austrian part of the diocese of Breslau
- Johann Heinrich Schramm (1810–1865), painter
- Erhard Hartung von Hartungen (1819–1893), Austrian doctor and homeopath
- Johann Demel (1825–1892), Austrian lawyer and politician
- Hugo Schenk (1849–1884), Austrian impostor and serial killer
- Alois Roik (1877–1924), pastor and writer
- Rudolf Ramek (1881–1941), Austrian politician
- Hermann Heller (1891–1933), lawyer and constitutional law teacher
- Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944), composer, conductor and pianist
- Max Rostal (1905–1991), violinist and teacher
- Stanisław Golachowski (1907–1951), musicologist and teacher
- Herbert Czaja (1914–1997), German politician (CDU, Member of the Bundestag), chairman of the Association of Expellees
- Karol Stryja (1915–1998), conductor
- Richard Pipes (1923–2018), American historian
- Kurt Weber (1928–2015), cameraman
- Roman Berger (* 1930), Slovak composer, music teacher and scholar
- Inge Mahn (* 1943), German sculptor, professor
- Jerzy Kronhold (* 1946), poet and diplomat
- Tadeusz Kusy OFM (* 1951), Polish religious, Bishop of Kaga-Bandoro
- Jerzy Samiec (* 1963), Bishop of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland
- Maksym Adam Copyc OFM (* 1971), theologian
- Sławomir Kohut (* 1977), cyclist
- Magdalena Gwizdoń (* 1979), biathlete
- Ireneusz Jeleń (* 1981), football player in the Polish national team
- Tomisław Tajner (* 1983), ski jumper
- Piotr Żyła (* 1987), ski jumper
- Adam Cieślar (* 1992), Nordic combined athlete
- Michał Haratyk (* 1992), Polish shot putter
- Tomasz Byrt (* 1993), ski jumper
Other personalities
- Johann Adam Steinmetz (1689–1762), head of the Jesus School from 1720 to 1730
- Johann Traugott Bartelmus (1735–1809), first Protestant superintendent of Moravia, Silesia and Galicia
- Prince Albert of Saxony (1738–1822), Duke of Teschen, art collector
- Archduke Karl of Austria (1771–1847), Duke of Teschen, general
- Ludwig Hohenegger (1807–1864), geologist
- Archduke Albrecht of Austria (1817–1895), Duke of Teschen, general
- Paweł Stalmach (1824-1891), founder of the Polish national movement in Cieszyn Silesia
- Theodor Haase (1834–1909), theologian and founder of the General Hospital of the Protestant community of Teschen.
- Archduke Frederick of Austria (1856-1936), Duke of Cieszyn, general and supreme commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War 1914-1916
- Karl Kulisz (Karol Kulisz; 1873–1940), Lutheran theologian and superintendent in Teschen from 1919 to 1939, victim of National Socialism
- Gwido Langer (1894–1948), Polish colonel and cryptanalyst , transferred here on December 10, 2010 and buried with military honors
- Hermann Joseph Hinterstoisser (1861–1932), Austrian surgeon, head of the surgical and gynecological department of the general hospital of the Protestant community.
- Julian Przyboś (1901–1970), Polish poet, lived in the city from 1927 to 1939
- Józef Londzin (1863-1929), was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, politician, national and educational activist, mayor of Cieszyn, member of the Austrian House of Representatives and Sejms, senator
- Jan Michejda (1853–1927), Polish Protestant lawyer, politician, national activist, Mayor of Cieszyn (1922–1927)
Twin cities
literature
- Karl August Müller: Patriotic images, or history and description of all castles and knight palaces in Silesia and the county of Glatz. 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Flemming, Glogau 1844, pp. 193–195 ( scan in Google book search).
- Albin Heinrich: Attempt on the history of the Duchy of Teschen from the oldest to the present time. Th. Prochaska, Teschen 1818 ( scan in Google book search).
- Gottlieb Biermann : History of the Duchy of Teschen. Verlag Karl Prochaska, Teschen 1863 ( scan in Google book search).
- Moritz Landwehr von Pragenau: History of the city of Teschen (= sources and representations on Silesian history. Volume 18). Edited by Walter Kuhn. Holzner, Würzburg 1976, DNB 770181546 (bibliography, pp. 133-139).
- Książnica Cieszyńska (Ed.): Dzieje Cieszyna od pradziejów do czasów współczesnych . Cieszyn 2010, ISBN 978-83-927052-6-0 (Polish).
Web links
- Website of the city of Cieszyn. In: um.cieszyn.pl (Polish)
- Muzeum Śląska Cieszyńskiego w Cieszynie ( Memento from January 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). In: muzeumcieszyn.pl (Polish)
- Historical monuments of Teschen. In: cieszyn.pl (Polish)
- History and sights in the online travel guide Oberschlesien. In: orf-oberschlesien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
- ^ Website of the city (BIP), Burmistrz Miasta Cieszyna, accessed on February 8, 2015 (Polish).
- ↑ a b Robert Mrózek: nazwy miejscowe dawnego Śląska Cieszyńskiego . Ed .: Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach . 1984, ISSN 0208-6336 , p. 52 f . (Polish).
- ↑ The year 810 was first freely invented by Eleazar Tilisch (1560-1612) and then repeated by others. See Cieszyńskie jubileusze, czyli w jaki sposób kształtowała się legenda o początkach grodu nad Olzą. In: Idzi Panic: Dzieje Cieszynaod pradziejów do czasow współczesnych. praca zbiorowa. Volume III: Cieszyn od Wiosny Ludów do III Rzeczypospolitej. 2nd Edition. Książnica Cieszyńska, Cieszyn 2010, ISBN 978-83-927052-6-0 , pp. 15–24.
- ↑ Silesian Cultural Work | Portraits of the cities. Retrieved April 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Dzieje Cieszyna ... 2010, Volume 2, pp. 241, 349.
- ↑ Ludwig Patryn: The results of the census of December 31, 1910 in Silesia according to population size, home law, religion, colloquial language and level of education, taking into account some of the more important conditions for the community and traffic, the affiliation of the Silesian communities according to parish and religious communities and their size . Publishing house of the Silesian State Committee, Opava 1912, OCLC 320560804 ( digitized in: Silesian Digital Library; menu in Polish; view and download in djvu format).
- ↑ Grzegorz Wnętrzak: Stosunki polityczne i narodowościowe na pograniczu Śląska Cieszyńskiego i Galicji zachodniej w latach 1897–1920 [Political and national relations in the border region of Cieszyn Silesia and Western Galicia in the years 1897–1920] . Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2014, ISBN 978-83-7780-882-5 , p. 282 (Polish).
- ↑ Dzieje Cieszyna ... 2010, Volume 2, p. 224.
- ↑ Idzi Panic: Dzieje Cieszynaod pradziejów do czasow współczesnych. praca zbiorowa. Volume III: Cieszyn od Wiosny Ludów do III Rzeczypospolitej. 2nd Edition. Książnica Cieszyńska, Cieszyn 2010, ISBN 978-83-927052-6-0 , p. 323 (summary in English and d. T. The history of Cieszyn from prehistory to the present day and in German and d. T. The history of the city of Teschen from the oldest to the present day ).
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Reformation city Český Těšín. Czech Republic. A city that connects nations and denominations. In: reformation-cities.org, accessed on April 11, 2020. - ↑ Rotunda pw św. Mikołaja. In: Cieszyn.pl - serwis informacyjny. Retrieved September 23, 2017 (Polish).
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