Gwiazdka Cieszyńska

*Gwiazdka Cieszyńska*
	Franz Joseph at the start of World War I
Former editors	Paweł Stalmach (1851-1887); Józef Londzin (1890-1929)
Categories	Magazine
Frequency	Weekly; Biweekly (since 1906)
First issue	1 March 1851
Final issue	1939
Country	Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary, Poland
Language	Polish

Gwiazdka Cieszyńska ("Cieszyn Star") was a weekly Polish magazine published in Cieszyn (Teschen), Silesia in 1851-1939. After 1906 it appeared biweekly. It succeeded Tygodnik Cieszyński magazine which appeared in 1848-1851.

The magazine accented the Polishness of

Galicia.^[3]

From the 1880s Gwiazdka Cieszyńska presented almost exclusively Catholic views, that were related to the spiritual evolution of editor Paweł Stalmach, who on his deathbed converted to Catholicism.[4] From 1888 it was financed by the Katolickie Towarzystwo Prasowe (Catholic Press Society).

Gwiazdka Cieszyńska later became the press expression of Związek Śląskich Katolików (ZŚlK, Association of Silesian Catholics), which in February 1923 merged with the

Silesian Sejm. In consequence the former (ZŚlK) lost its press association with Gwiazdka Cieszyńska.^[5] In 1930 the magazine adopted the Polish Christian Democratic

stance.

Gwiazdka Cieszyńska also stood also against the influence of the

Andrzej Kotula, Ernest Farnik, Emanuel Grim, Jan Kubisz and Oskar Zawisza

.