Hażlach Explained

Official Name:Hażlach
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:Hażlach
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Paweł Macura
Established Title:First mentioned
Established Date:1305
Area Total Km2:12.33
Population As Of:2017
Population Total:2460
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Coordinates:49.804°N 18.6638°W
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:43-419
Blank Name:Car plates
Blank Info:SCI
Website:http://www.hazlach.pl

Hażlach is a village and the seat of Gmina Hażlach in Cieszyn County in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.

The name of the village is of topographic Austro-Bavarian origins[1] (Hasen-loch?).

History

The village lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It was first mentioned in a Latin document of Diocese of Wrocław called Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from around 1305 as item in Hesleth debent esse viginti mansi..[2] [3] [4] It meant that the village was supposed to pay a tithe from 20 smaller 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 as Upper Silesia. The name of the village, of Austro-Bavarian origin, may indicate that the initial settlers were ethnic Germans, later fully polonised.

Politically the village belonged initially to the Duchy of Teschen, formed in 1290 in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland and was ruled by a local branch of the 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, mentioned in the register of Peter's Pence payment from 1447 among the 50 parishes of Teschen deanery as Hazelach.[5]

After the 1540s Protestant Reformation prevailed in the Duchy of Teschen and a local Catholic church was taken over by Lutherans. It was taken from them (as one from around fifty buildings) in the region by a special commission and given back to the Roman Catholic Church on 18 April 1654.[6]

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 and legal district of Cieszyn. According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality grew from 1,248 in 1880 to 1,342 in 1910 with the growing majority being native Polish-speakers (from 95.6% in 1880 to 99.3% in 1910) accompanied by a dwindling German-speaking minority (from 54 or 4.4% in 1880 to 8 or 0.6% in 1910). In terms of religion in 1910 majority were Roman Catholics (62.6%), followed by Protestants (36.8%) and 8 Jews.[7] The village was also traditionally inhabited by Cieszyn Vlachs, speaking Cieszyn Silesian dialect.

After World War I, the fall of Austria-Hungary, the 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. After the war it was restored to Poland.

Geography

Hażlach lies in the southern part of Poland, 60NaN0 north-east of the county seat, Cieszyn, 280NaN0 west of Bielsko-Biała, 600NaN0 south-west of the regional capital Katowice, and 5km (03miles) east of the border with the Czech Republic.

The village is situated on the geographical border between Silesian Foothills in the south and Ostrava Basin in the north, between roughly NaNm (-2,147,483,648feet) above sea level, 15km (09miles) north-west of the Silesian Beskids. Piotrówka, right tributary of the Olza in the watershed of Odra, flows through the village.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Mrózek, Robert . Nazwy miejscowe dawnego Śląska Cieszyńskiego . Local names of former Cieszyn Silesia . . 1984 . Katowice . 77 . pl . 0208-6336.
  2. Book: Panic, Idzi . Idzi Panic . Śląsk Cieszyński w średniowieczu (do 1528) . Cieszyn Silesia in the Middle Ages (until 1528) . Starostwo Powiatowe w Cieszynie . 2010 . Cieszyn . 297–299 . pl . 978-83-926929-3-5 .
  3. Book: Schulte, Wilhelm . Wilhelm Schulte . Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae T.14 Liber Fundationis Episcopatus Vratislaviensis. Breslau . 1889 . de.
  4. Web site: Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis . 13 July 2014. la.
  5. Registrum denarii sancti Petri in archidiaconatu Opoliensi sub anno domini MCCCCXLVII per dominum Nicolaum Wolff decretorum doctorem, archidiaconum Opoliensem, ex commissione reverendi in Christo patris ac domini Conradi episcopi Wratislaviensis, sedis apostolice collectoris, collecti. Zeitschrift des Vereins für Geschichte und Alterthum Schlesiens. H. Markgraf. Breslau. 27. 1893. 361–372. 21 July 2014. de.
  6. Book: Broda, Jan . Materiały do dziejów Kościoła ewangelickiego w Księstwie Cieszyńskim i Państwie Pszczyńskim w XVI i XVII wieku . Z historii Kościoła ewangelickiego na Śląsku Cieszyńskim . Dom Wydawniczy i Księgarski „Didache“ . 1992 . Katowice . 259–260 . pl . 83-85572-00-7.
  7. Book: Piątkowski, Kazimierz . Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem . Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego . 1918 . Cieszyn . 263, 281 . pl .