Święta Katarzyna | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lower Silesian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Wrocław County |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Siechnice |
Coordinates: | 51.0333°N 24°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland#Lower Silesian Voivodeship |
Elevation M: | 125 |
Population Total: | 2288 |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Established Title1: | First written record |
Established Date1: | 1257 |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Timezone1: | GMT+1 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 55-010 |
Area Code Type: | Telephone code |
Area Code: | (+48) 71 |
Code1 Name: | SIMC |
Code1 Info: | 0881213 |
Registration Plate Type: | Vehicle registration |
Registration Plate: | DWR |
Święta Katarzyna (pronounced as /pl/,,[1] pronounced as /de/),, is a village in Gmina Siechnice, Wrocław County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[2]
Before 1 January 2010, the district of Gmina Siechnice was called Gmina Święta Katarzyna, and Święta Katarzyna was its seat. (This was one of only two cases in Poland where a gmina contained a town but had its administrative seat in a village; the remaining one is Gmina Nowe Skalmierzyce.)
The village had a population of 1,872 in 2006, rising to 2258 in 2015. It lies approximately 12km (07miles) south-east of the regional capital Wrocław. It first appears in written records in 1257 as Santa Katherine.
Buildings of interest include the fortified church of Saint Catherine, which dates to at least 1257, and has been rebuilt on several occasions, including in 1720 and after the Second World War. The church contains a picture of the Madonna of Częstochowa, and is considered a Marian shrine.
The Wrocław eastern bypass runs through Święta Katarzyna, improving the village's transport links with the city.[3]