Simoradz

Coordinates: 49°49′N 18°46′E / 49.817°N 18.767°E / 49.817; 18.767
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Simoradz [ɕiˈmɔrad͡z] is a village in Gmina Dębowiec, Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.

Etymology

The name originates from a personal name Siemorad

Moravian language "sim oradz", meaning to till
a land.

History

The village lies in the historical region of

greater lans
, while 5(6?) where reserved for a local church since a yore.

The village belonged initially to the

fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became a part of the Habsburg monarchy. Until the 16th century Simoradz was owned directly by Cieszyn dukes, then it belonged to noble families
.

Local Catholic

Protestant Reformation many of the local citizens changed their denomination to Lutheranism
and took over the local church. It was returned to Catholics in 1654. The first school in Simoradz was established in 1763, and waited to 1793 for a dedicated building next to the church.

After the

Wien, who changed the official language of the gemeinde to German. Rużiczka was replaced by Jerzy Raszka in 1888, who made back Polish language official in municipality. He also wrote down a memoir
of the municipality. A new school was built in 1903.

According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality grew from 508 in 1880 to 569 in 1910 with a majority being native Polish-speakers (98.8–100%) and at most 6 or 1.2% German-speaking in 1880, in terms of religion the majority were

Roman Catholics (36.4% in 1910) and Jews (6 or 1% in 1910).[7][8] The village was also traditionally inhabited by Cieszyn Vlachs, speaking Cieszyn Silesian dialect
.

After World War I, the fall of Austria-Hungary, Polish–Czechoslovak War erupted. In 28 to 30 January 1919 the battle between Polish and Czechoslovak troops took place here. After the division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, the village became a part of Poland. In 1926-1928 local Lutherans built a cemetery chapel, since 1995 a Holy Spirit Church. It was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. After the war it was restored to Poland.

  • Map (1836)
    Map (1836)
  • Saint James Catholic parish church
    Saint James Catholic parish church
  • Lutheran church of the Holy Spirit
    Lutheran church of the Holy Spirit

Geography

Simoradz lies in the southern part of Poland, west of Skoczów, 12 km (7 mi) north-east of the county seat, Cieszyn, 22 km (14 mi) west of Bielsko-Biała, 55 km (34 mi) south-west of the regional capital Katowice, and 12 km (7.5 mi) east of the border with the Czech Republic.

The village is situated on one of the hills of the

above sea level, 15 km (9.3 mi) north of the Silesian Beskids; It's ensconced in the north and south by two streams, right tributaries of the Knajka stream, in the watershed of the Vistula
. The biggest forest, called Dąbczak, lies in the north-west part of the village.

Footnotes

  1. ^
    ISSN 0208-6336
    .
  2. ISBN 978-83-926929-3-5
    .
  3. ^ Schulte, Wilhelm (1889). "Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae T.14 Liber Fundationis Episcopatus Vratislaviensis". Pan Biblioteka Kórnicka (in German). Breslau.
  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 commisione 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: 369–372. 1893. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  7. ^ Piątkowski, Kazimierz (1918). Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem (in Polish). Cieszyn: Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego. pp. 260, 279.
  8. ^ Ludwig Patryn (ed): Die Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1910 in Schlesien, Troppau 1912.
  9. ISBN 978-83-933109-3-7
    .

References

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