Zakrzówek (Krakow)

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The house of the last governor of Zakrzówek
Jezioro Zakrzówek

Zakrzówek is a district of Krakow in the Dębniki administrative district , south of the Vistula in Poland .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1238 as Zacrew et altera Zacrew . Zacrew Paruo was mentioned in 1281 , Jan Długosz named the place Zakrzow between 1470 and 1480 , today's diminutive form of the topographical ( za krz (em) or za krzew (em) - behind bush / bush [ kierz / krzak ] ) Name appeared only after the 16th century. In the second half of the 15th century was a farm with a Vorwerk built, the beginning of the settlement Kapelanka was.

Politically, the place was initially part of the Kingdom of Poland (from 1569 in the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania ), Krakow Voivodeship , Szczyrzyc District. When Poland was first partitioned in 1772, Zakrzówek became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804). After the abolition of patrimonial Zakrzówek formed a municipality in the Podgórze district . At that time, the Austrians built some fortifications of the Fortress Krakow and a barracks and the northeastern part of the town developed by the suburbanization to a suburb of Podgórze or after opening a wooden bridge over the Vistula in 1887 in Krakow.

In 1900 the rural community Zakrzówek with the district Kapelanka had an area of ​​228 hectares with 113 houses and 1534 citizens, all of whom were Polish- speaking (1270). The majority of the population present was Roman Catholic (1500), 22 Jews and the military personnel also lived in the village (276 people: 106 German speakers, 140 other languages). On April 1, 1910, the community was incorporated into Krakow.

In 1921 the X. Zakrzówek district had 174 buildings with 2154 inhabitants.

Karol Józef Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II, worked in the local limestone quarry of the Solvay soda factory during World War II. After 1957 it was flooded and after 1989 the banks of Jezioro Zakrzówek (also known as Zalew [reservoir] Zakrzówek ) became a resting place the townspeople and the zalew were also used for diving .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Władysław Lubas: nazwy miejscowe Południowej części dawnego województwa Krakowskiego . Polska Akademia Nauk . Instytut Języka Polskiego, Wrocław 1968, p. 174 (Polish, online ).
  2. ^ Władysław Kwiecień: Przyczynek do studiów nad ludnością miasta Krakowa i gmin przyległych u schyłku XIX w. 1981, p. 374–376 [PDF 6–8] (Polish, online [PDF]).
  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 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Województwo krakowskie i Śląsk Cieszyński . Warszawa 1925, p. 17 [PDF: 27] (Polish, Woj.krakowskie i Sląsk Cieszynski miejscowości.pdf ).

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Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '  N , 19 ° 55'  E