Górki Wielkie

Coordinates: 49°46′22.10″N 18°51′14.42″E / 49.7728056°N 18.8540056°E / 49.7728056; 18.8540056
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Górki Wielkie
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All Saints parish church
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Górki Wielkie [ˈɡurki ˈvjɛlkʲɛ] ⓘ is a village in Gmina Brenna, Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.

Etymology

The name of the village is of Polish origin and comes from the word góra, which means "hill".[1]

History

The village was first mentioned in a Latin document of

Duchy of Cieszyn was formed (where both belonged ever since). From it was extracted a knights' villages which was then first mentioned in Liber fundationis...[5]

Politically the village belonged initially to the

fee of Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became part of the Habsburg monarchy
.

The village became a seat of a Catholic parish, mentioned in the register of Peter's Pence payment from 1447 among 50 parishes of Cieszyn deanery as Gorky.[6]

After the 1540s

Protestant Reformation prevailed in the Duchy of Cieszyn and a local Catholic church was taken over by Lutherans. It was taken from them (as one of around fifty buildings) in the region by a special commission and given back to the Roman Catholic Church on 18 April 1654.[7]

After

Protestants (15.8% in 1910) and Jews (9 people).[8] The village was also traditionally inhabited by Cieszyn Vlachs, speaking Cieszyn Silesian dialect
.

After World War I, fall of Austria-Hungary, Polish–Czechoslovak War and the division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, it became again part of Poland. It was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. After the war it was restored to Poland.

People

Polish writer Zofia Kossak-Szczucka lived here from 1924 and is buried here. There is also a museum dedicated to her in Górki Wielkie.

Gallery

  • General view of the village
    General view of the village
  • Jan Sarkander Church
    Jan Sarkander Church
  • Lutheran church of St. John the Evangelist
    Lutheran church of St. John the Evangelist
  • Ruins of a manor house
    Ruins of a manor house

Footnotes

  1. ^ Damrot, Konstanty (1896). Die älteren Ortsnamen Schlesiens, ihre Entstehung und Bedeutung. Mit einem Anhange über die schlesisch-polnischen Personennamen. Beiträge zur schlesischen Geschichte und Volkskunde (in German). Verlag von Felix Kasprzyk. p. 146.
  2. ISBN 978-83-926929-3-5
    .
  3. ^ Schulte, Wilhelm (1889). "Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae T.14 Liber Fundationis Episcopatus Vratislaviensis". Pan Biblioteka Kórnicka (in German). Breslau.
  4. ^ "Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis" (in Latin). Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  5. ^ I. Panic, 2010, p. 290
  6. ^ "Registrum denarii sancti Petri in archidiaconatu Opoliensi sub anno domini MCCCCXLVII per dominum Nicolaum Wolff decretorum doctorem, archidiaconum Opoliensem, ex commissione reverendi in Christo patris ac domini Conradi episcopi Wratislaviensis, sedis apostolice collectoris, collecti". Zeitschrift des Vereins für Geschichte und Alterthum Schlesiens (in German). 27. Breslau: H. Markgraf: 361–372. 1893. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  7. ISBN 83-85572-00-7
    .
  8. ^ Piątkowski, Kazimierz (1918). Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem (in Polish). Cieszyn: Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego. pp. 255, 277.

References

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