Dzięgielów | |
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Village | |
 Château in Dzięgielów | |
 Coat of arms | |
  Dzięgielów | |
| Coordinates:49°43′19.89″N18°42′12.9″E / 49.7221917°N 18.703583°E /49.7221917; 18.703583 | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Silesian |
| County | Cieszyn |
| Gmina | Goleszów |
| First mentioned | 1305 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Zbigniew Krzemień |
| Area | |
• Total | 8.31 km2 (3.21 sq mi) |
| Population (2014) | |
• Total | 1,364 |
| • Density | 164/km2 (425/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 43-445 |
| Car plates | SCI |
| Website | Official website |
Dzięgielów is a village inGmina Goleszów,Cieszyn County,Silesian Voivodeship, southernPoland,[1] near the border with theCzech Republic. It lies in theSilesian Foothills and in the historical region ofCieszyn Silesia.
Dzięgielów is one of the mostProtestant municipalities of the region. Centre formission andevangelization of theEvangelical-Augsburg Church is located here. Every year evangelization week occurs on the football field.
The village was first mentioned in a Latin document ofDiocese of Wrocław calledLiber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from around 1305 asitem inZengilow.[2][3][4] It meant that the village was in the process of location (the size of land to pay atithe from was not yet precised). 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 will be later known asUpper Silesia.
Politically the village belonged initially to theDuchy of Teschen, formed in 1290 in the process offeudal fragmentation of Poland and was ruled by a local branch ofPiast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became afee of theKingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became part of theHabsburg monarchy.
AfterRevolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire a modernmunicipal division was introduced in the re-establishedAustrian Silesia. The village as a municipality was subscribed to thepolitical andlegal district ofCieszyn. According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality grew from 501 in 1880 to 506 in 1910 with a majority being native Polish-speakers (between 97.4% and 99.2%) accompanied by a German-speaking people (at most 12 or 2.6% 1890) and Czech-speaking (at most 5 or 1% in 1900). In terms of religion in 1910 majority wereProtestants (71.7%), followed byRoman Catholics (28.3%).[5] The village was also traditionally inhabited byCieszyn Vlachs, speakingCieszyn Silesian dialect.
AfterWorld War I, fall ofAustria-Hungary,Polish–Czechoslovak War and the division ofCieszyn Silesia in 1920, it became a part ofPoland. It was thenannexed byNazi Germany at the beginning ofWorld War II. After the war it was restored toPoland.
There is a 15th-century château in the village. Until 1444 it was owned by the noble family Pelhrzim of Trankowice (von Pelchrzim).
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