Istebna

Coordinates: 49°33′50.75″N 18°53′35.82″E / 49.5640972°N 18.8932833°E / 49.5640972; 18.8932833
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Istebna
Village
View of Istebna
View of Istebna
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Istebna

Olza River
flows through the village.

Etymology

The name is cultural in origin, derived from the word (j)istba, meaning a room in a (especially rural) house (see also izba). It is conjectured that the name was conveyed by settlers from Istebné who supposedly established the village. Historically, it was also known as Gistebna (1621, 1629) or Istebne (1724; the name in plural form, meaning rooms).[1]

History

The village was first mentioned in a 1592 document, which retrospectively mentioned a village called Jistebne which was around As early as 1583.

fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia and a part of the Habsburg monarchy
.

After the

Protestants (5.9%) and Jews (6 people).[3] The village was also traditionally inhabited by Silesian Gorals, speaking Jablunkov dialect
.

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

Landmarks

There is a Catholic church in the village known as the Good Shepherd Church, built in 1794 from the previous wooden one.

Notable people

  • Emanuel Grim, Catholic priest and writer, worked here and is buried at local cemetery
  • Ludwik Konarzewski-junior, Polish painter, sculptor and also artistic educator of children (son of senior)
  • Ludwik Konarzewski-senior
    , Polish painter, sculptor and also educator of fine arts to young people in Istebna
  • Janusz Krężelok, cross-country skier
  • Jerzy Kukuczka, high altitude mountaineer, and the second person to climb all of the 8,000 metre peaks (a memorial chamber dedicated to him is located in its own mountain cottage in Istebna)
  • Jan Wałach, drawer, engraver (woodcuts), also sculptor and painter

Twin towns

Gallery

  • Good Shepherd parish church
    Good Shepherd parish church
  • Interior of the Good Shepherd church
    Interior of the Good Shepherd church
  • Building in Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park
    Building in Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park
  • Para góralska z Istebnej, by Henryk Jastrzembski, (1846)
    Para góralska z Istebnej, by Henryk Jastrzembski, (1846)
  • Memorial plaque Jerzy Kukuczka in Istebna
    Memorial plaque Jerzy Kukuczka in Istebna

Footnotes

  1. ^
    ISSN 0208-6336
    .
  2. ISBN 978-83-926929-5-9
    .
  3. ^ Piątkowski, Kazimierz (1918). Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem (in Polish). Cieszyn: Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego. pp. 266, 284.

References

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