Witkowice (Kęty)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lesser Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Oświęcim | ||
| Gmina : | Kęty | ||
| Area : | 11.54 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 55 ' N , 19 ° 17' E | ||
| Height : | 300 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 2267 (2013-03-31) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 33 | ||
| License plate : | KOS | ||
Witkowice ( German Witkowitz , older also Moosgrund ) is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Kęty in the powiat Oświęcimski of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .
geography
The place is in the Silesian Foothills ( Pogórze Śląskie ) on a right tributary of the Soła . The neighboring towns are the city of Kęty in the southwest, Malec , Nowa Wieś in the west, Osiek in the north, Nidek in the east and Bulowice in the south.
history
The place was first mentioned in documents as the parish Mosgront seu [- or] Witowicz in the Peterspfennigregister of the year 1326 in the dean's office Auschwitz of the diocese of Krakow . The second name is Slavic (Polish) and patronymically derived from the first name Witek with a typical West Slavic suffix - (ow) ice. The first name is most likely of German descent, mentioned again as Mosgrunt in 1335 and 1400 (see Bielitz-Bialaer Sprachinsel ). Jan Długosz mentioned the village twice between 1470 and 1480: Wythkowicze villa owned by six nobles and Withkowicze , a depopulated village.
Politically, the village originally belonged to the Duchy of Auschwitz , which existed from 1315 during the period of Polish particularism . Since 1327 consisted suzerainty of the Kingdom of Bohemia . In 1457 the duchy with the village Withkowicze was bought by the Polish king.
In 1564 Witkowice was completely incorporated as part of the new Silesian District of the Cracow Voivodeship to the Kingdom of Poland , from 1569 the Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic . The report of the episcopal visitation of Bishop Stanisław Łubieński overflowed that the Roman Catholic parish fell into disrepair due to the Reformation when the wooden church was occupied by Calvinists.
With the first partition of Poland in 1772 Witkowice came to the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804). After the abolition of patrimonial it formed a parish in the Biała District .
In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Witkowice became part of Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II . It then belonged, contrary to international law, to the district of Bielitz in the administrative district of Katowice in the province of Silesia (since 1941 province of Upper Silesia ).
From 1975 to 1998 Witkowice was part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julian Zinkow: Oswiecim i okolice. Przewodnik monograficzny . Wydawnictwo "PLATAN", Oświęcim 1994, ISBN 83-7094-002-1 , p. 238-239 (Polish).
- ↑ Register of local authorities in the Bielitz district (as of January 1, 1945). Retrieved July 23, 2015 .
- ↑ January Ptaśnik (editor): Monumenta Poloniae Vaticana T.1 Acta Apostolicae Camerae. Vol. 1, 1207-1344 . Sums. Academiae Litterarum Cracoviensis, Cracoviae 1913, pp. 147-150 ( online ).
- ↑ January Ptaśnik (editor): Monumenta Poloniae Vaticana T.1 Acta Apostolicae Camerae. Vol. 1, 1207-1344 . Sums. Academiae Litterarum Cracoviensis, Cracoviae 1913, pp. 374-375 ( online ).
- ^ Krzysztof Rafał Prokop: Księstwa oświęcimskie i zatorskie wobec Korony Polskiej w latach 1438-1513. Dzieje polityczne . PAU , Kraków 2002, ISBN 83-8885731-2 , p. 151 (Polish).
- ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)
Web links
- Witkowice . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 13 : Warmbrun – Worowo . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1893, p. 668 (Polish, edu.pl ).
