Landek
Landek | |
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Village | |
 Fire station | |
 Coat of arms | |
  Landek | |
| Coordinates:49°52′50.61″N18°52′18.68″E/ 49.8807250°N 18.8718556°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Silesian |
| County | Bielsko |
| Gmina | Jasienica |
| First mentioned | 1564 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Kazimierz Majcher |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.47 km2(1.73 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 601 |
| • Density | 130/km2(350/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1(CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2(CEST) |
| Car plates | SBI |
Landek[ˈlandɛk]is a village inGmina Jasienica,Bielsko County,Silesian Voivodeship,southern Poland.[1]Landek lies in the historical region ofCieszyn Silesia.
History
[edit]The village was created in the 16th century by Wacław Rudzki, the owner ofRudzica,with a help from German settlers.[2]It was first mentioned in 1564 asLiandek.[3][4]Politically it belonged then to theDuchy of Teschen,afeeof theKingdom of Bohemia,which after 1526 became part of theHabsburg monarchy.
AfterRevolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empirea modernmunicipal divisionwas introduced in the re-establishedAustrian Silesia.The village as a municipality was subscribed to thepolitical districtofBielskoand thelegal districtofStrumień.According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality dropped from 328 in 1880 to 302 in 1910 with a majority being native Polish-speakers (100% in 1880 dropping to 98.7% in 1910) accompanied by a few German-speaking people (at most 4 or 1.3% in 1890) and 1 Czech-speaking person (in 1910), in terms of religion in 1910 majority wereRoman Catholics(96.7%), followed byProtestants(10 or 3.3%).[5]
AfterWorld War I,fall ofAustria-Hungary,Polish–Czechoslovak Warand the division ofCieszyn Silesiain 1920, it became a part ofPoland.It was thenannexedbyNazi Germanyat the beginning ofWorld War II.After the war it was restored toPoland.
Footnotes
[edit]- ^"Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)"(in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^J. Polak, 2011, p. 9
- ^Panic, Idzi(2011).Śląsk Cieszyński w początkach czasów nowożytnych (1528-1653)[Cieszyn Silesia in Early modern period (1528-1653)] (in Polish). Cieszyn: Starostwo Powiatowe w Cieszynie. p. 165.ISBN978-83-926929-5-9.
- ^Mrózek, Robert (1984).Nazwy miejscowe dawnego Śląska Cieszyńskiego[Local names of former Cieszyn Silesia] (in Polish). Katowice:Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach.p. 103.ISSN0208-6336.
- ^Piątkowski, Kazimierz (1918).Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem(in Polish). Cieszyn: Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego. pp. 261, 280.
References
[edit]- Polak, Jerzy (2011).Obrazki z dziejów gminy Jasienica.Cieszyn:Muzeum Śląska Cieszyńskiego.ISBN978-83-922005-6-7.
External links
[edit]- (in Polish)Information at Gmina Jasienica website
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