See also: Goleszów, Subcarpathian Voivodeship.
| Official Name: | Goleszów |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Poland |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Silesian |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Cieszyn |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Goleszów |
| Subdivision Type4: | Sołectwo |
| Subdivision Name4: | Goleszów Dolny Goleszów Górny Goleszów Równia |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1223 |
| Area Total Km2: | 12.11 |
| Population As Of: | 2014 |
| Population Total: | 4276 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Coordinates: | 49.7357°N 18.7398°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 43-440 |
| Blank Name: | Car plates |
| Blank Info: | SCI |
| Website: | http://www.goleszow.pl |
Goleszów is a village and the seat of Gmina Goleszów (an administrative district) in Cieszyn County in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.
The name of the village is possessive in origin, derived from a personal name Golesz.[1]
The village lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It was first mentioned in a document of Bishop of Wrocław issued on 23 May 1223 for Norbertine Sisters in Rybnik among villages paying them a tithe, as Goles(u)ov(u)o.[2] [3] Politically it belonged then to the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz and the Castellany of Cieszyn, which was in 1290 formed in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland into the Duchy of Teschen, ruled by a local branch of Silesian Piast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became a part of the Habsburg monarchy.
The village became a seat of a Catholic parish, according to a secondary source from the 19th century a stone church was already built in 1293. The parish was then mentioned in the register of Peter's Pence payment from 1447 among the 50 parishes of Teschen Deanery as Boleschaw.[4]
After the 1540s Reformation prevailed in the Duchy of Teschen and many local citizens became Lutherans. After issuing the Patent of Toleration in 1781 they subsequently organized a local Lutheran parish as one of over ten in the region.[5]
After the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire a modern municipal division was introduced in the re-established Austrian Silesia. The village as a municipality was subscribed to the political district of Bielsko and the legal district of Skoczów. In the late 19th century Goleszów became an important railway junction. In 1898 a cement plant was opened there, which led to industrialisation of the village.
According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the village grew from 1164 in 1880 to 2434 in 1910, with majority of the inhabitants being native Polish-speakers (98.5% in 1880 dropping to 90.9% in 1910), followed by a growing German-speaking population (18 or 1.5% in 1880 and 159 or 6.7% in 1910) and Czech-speaking people (5 or 0.4% in 1890 and 54 or 2.2% in 1910). In terms of religion in 1910 the majority where Protestants (1622 or 66.7%), followed by Roman Catholics (750 or 30.8%) and Jews (53 or 2.2%), there were also 9 persons being of another faith.[6] The village was also traditionally inhabited by Cieszyn Vlachs, speaking Cieszyn Silesian dialect.
After World War I, fall of Austria-Hungary, Polish–Czechoslovak War and the division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, it became a part of Poland. It was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. A subcamp of Auschwitz concentration camp operated there. After the war it was restored to Poland.
Goleszów lies in the southern part of Poland, approximately 6km (04miles) north-west of the nearest town-centre, Ustroń, 70NaN0 south-east of the county seat, Cieszyn, 240NaN0 south-west of Bielsko-Biała, 650NaN0 south-west of the regional capital Katowice, and 8km (05miles) east of the border with the Czech Republic.
It is situated on several streams, among them Radoń, left tributary of Bładnica river (left tributary of the Vistula). The village lies in the Silesian Foothills, between roughly NaNm (-2,147,483,648feet) (the height of the Chełm Goleszówski hill) above sea level; 5km (03miles) north of the Silesian Beskids.
There are two parishes in the village:
Goleszów also has a small ski jumping complex belonging to the club Olimpia Goleszów.
Vendryně (Wędrynia)
Saasen (Reiskirchen)