Marklowice Górne | |
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Village | |
 Village's centre | |
  Marklowice Górne | |
| Coordinates:49°53′7.52″N18°35′12.66″E / 49.8854222°N 18.5868500°E /49.8854222; 18.5868500 | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Silesian |
| County | Cieszyn |
| Gmina | Zebrzydowice |
| First mentioned | 1305 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Tadeusz Guz |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.64 km2 (1.79 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 920 |
| • Density | 200/km2 (510/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Car plates | SCI |
Marklowice Górne[marklɔˈvit͡sɛ ˈɡurnɛ] is a village inGmina Zebrzydowice,Cieszyn County,Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.[1]Piotrówka River flows through the village.
The name of the village ispatronymic in origin, derived from theGerman personal nameMark(e)l (≤Markwart), whereas the ending-(ow)ice/(ow)itz is typically Slavic.[2] The supplementary adjectiveGórne (German: Ober, Czech: Horní) meansUpper denoting itsupper location in comparison to sister settlement:Dolní Marklovice (Polish: Marklowice Dolne), in theCzech Republic.
The village ofMarklowice was first mentioned in a Latin document ofDiocese of Wrocław calledLiber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from around 1305 asitem (in)Marklowitz debent esse triginta mansi.[3][4][5] It meant that the village was supposed to paytithe from 30smaller lans. 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 asUpper Silesia.
Politically the village belonged initially to theDuchy of Cieszyn, formed in 1290 in the process offeudal fragmentation of Poland and was ruled by a local branch ofSilesian Piast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became afee of theKingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became part of theHabsburg monarchy. It remained ruled by thePiast dynasty until 1653.
Differentiation of two parts of the village began in the 15th century. Marklowice Górne was first mentioned in 1467 aswes wrchnye Marklowycze and then in 1950 aswes Horny Marklowicze.[2] More distinctly in the 17th century the village was split into the two parts, Marklowice Dolne and Marklowice Górne. After theRevolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire, a modernmunicipal division was introduced in the re-establishedAustrian Silesia. The two municipalities were subscribed at least since 1880 topolitical district andlegal district ofFreistadt. They were joined again at the end of the 19th century.
According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the combined population of the two villages grew from 1,1941 in 1880 to 1,512 in 1910. The majority were Polish-speaking (between 98% and 99.6%), accompanied by German-speaking minority (at most 18 or 1.6% in 1880) and Czech-speaking people (at most 11 or 1% in 1890). In terms of religion, in 1910 the majority wereRoman Catholics (98.4%), followed byProtestants (13 or 0.9%) andJews (11 or 0.7%).[6] The village was also traditionally inhabited bySilesian Lachs, speakingCieszyn Silesian dialect.
After division of Cieszyn Silesia betweenCzechoslovakia andPoland in 1920, it was divided between these two countries. They were briefly reunited in the same country 1938–39 after Poland's annexation ofZaolzie, although as two separate gminas in two different powiats: Cieszyn (Marklowice Górne) and Frysztat (Marklowice Dolne). Today's Marklowice Górne is an eastern part of that village. Western part of the village is now known asDolní Marklovice and lies in theCzech Republic.
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