Górki Małe | |
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Village | |
Village centre | |
Coordinates:49°45′22.20″N18°52′6.54″E / 49.7561667°N 18.8684833°E /49.7561667; 18.8684833 | |
Country | ![]() |
Voivodeship | Silesian |
County | Cieszyn |
Gmina | Brenna |
First mentioned | 1305 |
Area | |
• Total | 2.75 km2 (1.06 sq mi) |
Population (2016) | |
• Total | 819 |
• Density | 300/km2 (770/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal code | 43-436 |
Car plates | SCI |
Górki Małeⓘ is a village inGmina Brenna,Cieszyn County,Silesian Voivodeship, southernPoland.[1] It lies in the historical region ofCieszyn Silesia.
The name of the village is of Polish origin and comes from the wordgóra, which means "hill".[2]
A Latin document ofDiocese of Wrocław calledLiber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from around 1305 listsGorki villa vlodari[3] thus mentioning what is nowGórki Wielkie for the first time. However, it was written in an atypical form and suggests that a village was much older. The reason why it was inscribed to the document was connected to a process of extracting of a part of the village, which belonged wholly to dukes, to form a new village given to a knight. The part which remained in dukes hand was later calledGórki Małe, while a knight's partGórki Wielkie. As so a village of Górki (Małe) functioned probably before 1290, when theDuchy of Cieszyn was formed (where both belonged ever since). From it was extracted a knights' villages which was then first mentioned inLiber fundationis...[4] Explicitly it was later mentioned as[from] malych Gurek in 1566.[5]
Politically both villages belonged initially to theDuchy of Cieszyn, 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.
In years 1573/1577–1594 it belonged toSkoczów-Strumieństate country that was split from the Duchy of Cieszyn but was later purchased back.[6] Since 1653 it belonged toTeschener Kammer.
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 ofSkoczów. According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality dropped from 351 in 1880 to 329 in 1910, with majority of the inhabitants being native Polish-speakers (98.3%-100%) and mostlyRoman Catholics (90.6% in 1910), followed byProtestants (9.4% in 1910).[7] 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 again part ofPoland. It was thenannexed byNazi Germany at the beginning ofWorld War II. After the war it was restored toPoland.
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