Wiślica
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Holy Cross | ||
| Powiat : | Buski | ||
| Gmina : | Wiślica | ||
| Area : | 57.60 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 21 ' N , 20 ° 40' E | ||
| Height : | 101 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 503 (2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 28-160 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 41 | ||
| License plate : | TBU | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DW776: Kazimierza Wielka - Busko-Zdrój | ||
| Ext . 771: Wiślica– Strożyska | |||
| Next international airport : | Krakow-Balice | ||
Wiślica is a city in the powiat Buski of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with a little over 5550 inhabitants. The city has about 500 inhabitants.
Wiślica, which was re-named a city in 2018, was a city of national importance in the 14th to 16th centuries.
geography
Wiślica is located in the lowland of the Nida , almost 20 kilometers above the confluence with the Vistula, which flows by 10 km to the southeast as the crow flies . Part of the Nida landscape protection park belongs to the municipality .
The districts of Browary, Pod Bóżnicą and Zielonki belong to the city.
history
The place Wiślica has existed at least since the 9th century, when it was - next to Kraków - one of the most important castle walls of the Wislanen , who, according to an interpretation of the "life of St. Methodius" ( Method of Saloniki , † 885), adopted Christianity around 880 could. Around 990 Wiślica came under the rule of the Polans . Archaeologists excavated the foundations of a small 10th or 11th century church. Underneath, they found a baptismal font from the 9th century, the oldest in Poland. This would fit in with the Pannonian legends depicting the life of the Slav apostles Cyril and Methodius.
In the 12th century Wiślica was a market town with trade relations with Krakow and Kiev. In 1135 it was sacked by Ruthenians and Kyptschaks (Cumans, Polovzians). When Poland after the death of Bolesław III. Schiefmunds disintegrated into largely independent duchies, Wiślica belonged to the Duchy of Sandomierz. From 1166 to 1173, however, it was the seat of an independent duchy under the later senior duke Casimir the Just . Two palaces were built and around 1170 the first Romanesque church on site. In its crypt, now part of the Gothic collegiate church, a figure-adorned grave slab from the period between 1175 and 1177 was found, which is associated with Bolesław IV .
In 1241 the place was completely destroyed by the Mongols. Subsequently, he became an object of dispute between different branches of the Piast dynasty, but since 1304 it belonged permanently to the domain of Władysław I. Ellenlang and his successors on the Polish throne. In 1326 Wiślica received city rights. Casimir the Great proclaimed the Wiślica Statute here in 1347 , the first comprehensive body of Polish law. Under his reign, the city was walled with three gates and the third, still preserved building of the collegiate church. He had a small castle built near the city.
After the death of Louis of Hungary , an assembly of the Malopolska nobility met in Wiślica. In the 15th century the regional parliament ( Sejmik ) of Lesser Poland met partly in Wiślica and partly in Nowy Korczyn . Wiślica had twelve guilds and received permission from the king to build an aqueduct. Jan Długosz , who became known as a historian, gave the Jagiellonian prince school lessons here.
Towards the end of the 16th century, the city was ravaged by fires, floods and epidemics. The decline in the Polish-Swedish War was completed with the destruction of the city by George II Rákóczi of Transylvania . A hundred years later, in 1766, the castle was destroyed, and in 1820 two of the three town churches. Since the third division of Poland in 1795, the city has belonged to Austria, since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to Congress Poland . After the January uprising of 1863/64 was suppressed , Wiślica's town charter was revoked in 1869. The city walls were torn down towards the end of the century.
During the First World War , the place was just a village, in 1915 in the front area. The bombardment by Austrian artillery caused severe damage to the entire village and to the collegiate church, which was then rebuilt in the 1920s.
From 1975 to 1998 Wiślica was part of the Kielce Voivodeship. On January 1, 2018, Wiślica was restored to town. Until January 1, 2019 Wiślica was the smallest city in Poland in terms of population, then it was replaced by Opatowiec , which was once again a city .
local community
The town and country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Wiślica includes the town and twenty villages with school administration offices.
Attractions
The outstanding buildings of the place are the Gothic collegiate basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary and next to it the house of Jan Długosz . There are also various archaeological sites.
Web links
- Municipality website (Polish)