Wysoka (Wadowice)

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Wysoka (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : Wadowice
Gmina : Wadowice
Geographic location : 49 ° 54 '  N , 19 ° 36'  O coordinates: 49 ° 54 '25 "  N , 19 ° 36' 18"  O
Height : 315-435 m npm
Residents :
Postal code : 34-105
Telephone code : (+48) 33
License plate : KWA



Wysoka is a village with a Schulzenamt of the municipality Wadowice in the powiat Wadowicki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .

Overview of the village

geography

The place is in Pogórze Wielickie on the stream of the same name.

Neighboring towns are Lgota , Bachorowice and Marcyporęba in the north, Stanisław Górny in the east, Klecza Dolna , Klecza Górna , Barwałd Dolny , Barwałd Średni and Barwałd Górny in the south.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1354 as the parish of Vissoka . According to Jan Długosz , it was a village in the parish of Poręba ( Vyssoka, villa sub parochia de Poramba ). The name is of topographical origin ( wysoki - high [located]).

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 . Since 1445 it belonged to the Duchy of Zator , which was sold to the Polish king in 1494. In 1564 Wysoka was completely incorporated as part of the new Silesia District of the Krakow Voivodeship to the Kingdom of Poland , from 1569 the Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic .

Around 1600 the local church became the seat of a Reformed congregation.

During the first partition of Poland in 1772, Wysoka became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804). From 1782 the village belonged to the Myslenice district (1819 with the seat in Wadowice ). After the abolition of patrimonial it formed a parish in the Wadowice District from 1850 .

In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Wysoka came to Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II . It then belonged to the Krakow district in the General Government .

From 1975 to 1998 Wysoka was part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Julian Zinkow: Wokół Kalwarii Zebrzydowskiej i lanckorona . Wydawnictwo "CALVARIANUM", Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2000, ISBN 83-8739541-2 , p. 397-401 (Polish).
  2. ^ Paweł Mostowik: Z dziejów Księstwa Oświęcimskiego i Zatorskiego XII-XVI w . Toruń 2005, ISBN 83-7441-175-9 , Aneks. Miejscowości ziemi oświęcimsko-zatorskiej, p. 199 (Polish).
  3. Władysław Lubas: nazwy miejscowe Południowej części dawnego województwa Krakowskiego . Polska Akademia Nauk . Instytut Języka Polskiego, Wrocław 1968, p. 170 (Polish, online ).
  4. ^ Henryk Rutkowski (editor), Krzysztof Chłapkowski: Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku; Cz. 2, Komentarz, indeksy . Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2008 (Polish, online ).
  5. Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)