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Ochaby is a sołectwo in Gmina Skoczów, Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It consists of two villages: Ochaby Wielkie and Ochaby Małe. It is known from a large horse stud farm, one of the largest in Silesia.
Etymology
The name of the villages are of topographic origin, a plural form of the Slavic-rooted word ochab, denoting
The supplementary adjectives Wielkie and Małe mean Great(er)/Large and Lesser/Small respectively.History
The settlement lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It was first mentioned in a Latin document of Diocese of Wrocław called Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from around 1305 as item in Ochabe.[2][3][4] It meant that the village was in the process of location (the size of land to pay a tithe from was not yet precise). 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
The village became a seat of a Catholic
After the
After World War I, the fall of Austria-Hungary, the Polish–Czechoslovak War (the Battle of Skoczów took place nearby) 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
Ochaby lies in the southern part of Poland, approximately 5 km (3 mi) north of the nearest town, Skoczów, 14 km (9 mi) north-east of the county seat, Cieszyn, 20 km (12 mi) north-west of Bielsko-Biała, 50 km (31 mi) south-west of the regional capital Katowice, and 12 km (7.5 mi) east of the border with the Czech Republic.
The settlement is situated on both banks of the
People
Józef Pieter, Polish psychologist, was born here.[8]
References
- ISSN 0208-6336.
- ISBN 978-83-926929-3-5.
- ^ Schulte, Wilhelm (1889). "Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae T.14 Liber Fundationis Episcopatus Vratislaviensis". Pan Biblioteka Kórnicka (in German). Breslau.
- ^ "Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis" (in Latin). Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ^ "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.
- ISBN 83-85572-00-7.
- ^ Piątkowski, Kazimierz (1918). Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem (in Polish). Cieszyn: Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego. pp. 261, 280.
- ^ Zbigniew Hojka: Józef Pieter – pedagog, psycholog, organizator szkolnictwa wyższego na Górnym Śląsku. "Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki" 2020. No. 2, p. 108.
External links
- (in Polish) Ochaby horse stud farm
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