Zarzecze | |
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Village | |
 Former fire station and a chapel | |
_COA.png) Coat of arms | |
  Zarzecze | |
| Coordinates:49°54′46.84″N18°50′3.5″E / 49.9130111°N 18.834306°E /49.9130111; 18.834306 | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Silesian |
| County | Cieszyn |
| Gmina | Chybie |
| First mentioned | 1223 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Franciszek Stokłosa |
Area | 3.37 km2 (1.30 sq mi) |
| Population (2008) | 313 |
| • Density | 92.9/km2 (241/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 43-520 |
| Car plates | SCI |
Zarzecze[zaˈʐɛt͡ʂɛ] is a village inGmina Chybie,Cieszyn County,Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.[1] It lies on the right southern bank of theGoczałkowice Reservoir on the riverVistula. Contemporary territory covers only a small part of the former village existing since the 13th century, as it was inundated during the creation of Goczałkowice Reservoir in the 1950s.
The name is of topographic origin and literally means[a place] behind a river (Polish:za rzeką, whereasrzeka meansa river).[2]
It is one of the oldest villages inCieszyn Silesia. It was first mentioned in a document ofBishop of Wrocław issued on 23 May 1223 forNorbertine Sisters inRybnik among villages paying them atithe, asZasere.[3][4] The name (Zarzecze,[a place] behind a river, indicates that the primordial settlers came from the northern bank of the Vistula river (most probably from the village of Wisła, contemporaryWisła Wielka andWisła Mała), and it could have been a part of the land that was ceded by DukeCasimir II the Just toMieszko I Tanglefoot around 1177.
Subsequently, it belonged then to theDuchy of Opole and Racibórz and theCastellany ofCieszyn, which was in 1290 formed in the process offeudal fragmentation of Poland into theDuchy of Teschen, ruled by a local branch ofSilesian Piast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became afee of theKingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became a part of theHabsburg monarchy.
In years 1573/1577–1594 it belonged toSkoczów-Strumieństate country that was split from the Duchy of Teschen but was later purchased back.[5]
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 district ofBielsko and thelegal district ofStrumień. According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality grew from 2121 in 1880 to 2529 in 1910 with a majority being native Polish-speakers (between 98.6% and 99.6%) accompanied by a small German-speaking minority (at most 33 or 1.4% in 1900), in terms of religion in 1910 majority wereRoman Catholics (99.2%), followed by 15Jews and 2Protestants.[6]
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.
Most of the former Zarzecze territory was engulfed by waters from theGoczałkowice Reservoir in 1955, including its centre with the church built in 1789.
Folklorist and writer Ludwik Kobiela was born in the village.
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