Kostkowice, Cieszyn County

Coordinates: 49°47′37.90″N 18°42′5.14″E / 49.7938611°N 18.7014278°E / 49.7938611; 18.7014278
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Kostkowice ([kɔstkɔˈvit͡sɛ]) is a village in Gmina Dębowiec, Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.[1]

Etymology

The name of the village is patronymic in origin, derived from the personal name Kostka, ending with a typically Slavic -(ow)ice.[2] It was generally Germanized as Kostkowitz.

History

The village lies in the historical region of

greater lans. 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
.

After the

Protestants (37.8% in 1910).[6] The village was also traditionally inhabited by Cieszyn Vlachs, speaking Cieszyn Silesian 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. It was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. After the war it was restored to Poland.

Geography

Kostkowice lies in the southern part of Poland, 7 km (4 mi) north-east of the county seat, Cieszyn, 25 km (16 mi) west of Bielsko-Biała, 60 km (37 mi) south-west of the regional capital Katowice, and 8 km (5.0 mi) east of the border with the Czech Republic.

The village is situated in the

above sea level, 10 km (6.2 mi) north of the Silesian Beskids. It straddles over the border between watersheds of Odra (through Olza to the west) and Vistula (through Knajka
to the east); The biggest forest in the village, called Kostkowiak, lies in the north-west part of the village, separating a former village Samlowiec in the north from the proper Kostkowice in the south, in the Knajka valley.

References

  1. ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ISSN 0208-6336
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  3. ISBN 978-83-926929-3-5
    .
  4. ^ Schulte, Wilhelm (1889). "Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae T.14 Liber Fundationis Episcopatus Vratislaviensis". Pan Biblioteka Kórnicka (in German). Breslau.
  5. ^ "Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis" (in Latin). Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  6. ^ Piątkowski, Kazimierz (1918). Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem (in Polish). Cieszyn: Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego. pp. 255, 277.
  7. ISBN 978-83-933109-3-7
    .
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