Kończyce Wielkie

Coordinates: 49°49′55.72″N 18°39′9.74″E / 49.8321444°N 18.6527056°E / 49.8321444; 18.6527056
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Kończyce Wielkie
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Palace in Kończyce Wielkie
Palace in Kończyce Wielkie
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Kończyce Wielkieⓘ is a village in Gmina Hażlach, Cieszyn County in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, near the border with the Czech Republic.

History

In 2004 and 2005 in the village the oldest traces of Homo erectus in Poland were found, dated 800 000 years old.[1]

The village in the historical region of

greater lans, and also that it was a private village as opposed to the sister settlement of Cunczindorf principis mentioned in the same document, which was a ducal village. The dorf (German for a village) ending of its name indicates that the primordial settlers were of German origins. The creation of the village was a part of a larger settlement campaign taking place in the late 13th century on the territory of what would later be known as Upper Silesia
.

Politically the village belonged initially to the

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

The village could have become a seat of a Catholic

Protestant Reformation prevailed in the Duchy of Teschen and a local Catholic church was taken over by Lutherans. It was taken from them (as one from around fifty buildings) in the region by a special commission and given back to the Roman Catholic Church on 25 April 1654.[7]

After the

Roman Catholics (99.7%).[8]

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 Second Polish Republic 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.

Geography

Kończyce Wielkie lies in the southern part of Poland, 10 km (6 mi) north of the county seat, Cieszyn, 28 km (17 mi) west of Bielsko-Biała, 55 km (34 mi) south-west of the regional capital Katowice, and 5 km (3.1 mi) east of the border with the Czech Republic.

The village is situated in

above sea level, 18 km (11 mi) north-west of the Silesian Beskids. Piotrówka, right tributary of the Olza in the watershed of Odra
, flows through the village.

Landmarks

There is a wooden

fall of communism
in Poland, there were problems with the property laws for the palace. It has been finally sold in 2007 to businessmen who declared they would like to set up a hotel there.

Gallery

  • Saint Michael Archangel parish church
    Saint Michael Archangel parish church
  • Chapel of the Providence of God
    Chapel of the Providence of God

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach (21 October 2010). "Odkrycie najstarszych śladów obecności człowieka na terenie Polski" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  2. ISBN 978-83-926929-3-5
    .
  3. ^ Schulte, Wilhelm (1889). Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae T.14 Liber Fundationis Episcopatus Vratislaviensis (in German). Breslau: Josef Max & Comp.
  4. ^ "Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis" (in Latin). Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  5. ^ Ptaśnik, Jan (1913). Monumenta Poloniae Vaticana T.1 Acta Camerae Apostolicae. Vol. 1, 1207-1344. Cracoviae: Sumpt. Academiae Litterarum Cracoviensis. p. 366.
  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: 361–372. 1893. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  7. ISBN 978-83-85572-00-8
    .
  8. ^ Piątkowski, Kazimierz (1918). Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem (in Polish). Cieszyn: Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego. pp. 273, 290.

References

  • 700 lat Hażlacha i Kończyc Wielkich. Hażlach, Kończyce Wielkie: Gmina Hażlach. 2005.
    ISBN 978-83-922804-0-8
    .
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