Poręba Wielka, Oświęcim County

For other places with the same name, see Poręba Wielka.

Village in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Poręba Wielka

Village

Saint Bartholomew Church

Coat of arms

Poręba Wielka

Coordinates: 50°0′N 19°17′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 19.283°E﻿ / 50.000; 19.283
Country|  Poland
Voivodeship| Lesser Poland
County| Oświęcim
Gmina| Oświęcim
Established| 1285
Elevation

| 240 m (790 ft)
Population

| 1,858

Poręba Wielka [pɔˈrɛmba ˈvjɛlka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, in Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south-east of Oświęcim and 48 km (30 mi) west of the regional capital Kraków.

## History

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The village was established in 1285 by komes Adam under name Sępnia, which however did not endure long as the village was later mentioned in 1326 in the register of Peter's Pence payment among Catholic parishes of Oświęcim deaconry of the Diocese of Kraków as Paromba.[2][3]

Politically it belonged initially to the Duchy of Racibórz and the Castellany of Oświęcim, which was in 1315 formed in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland into the Duchy of Oświęcim, ruled by a local branch of the Silesian Piast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia. In 1457 Jan IV of Oświęcim agreed to sell the duchy to the Polish Crown, and in the accompanying document issued on 21 February the village was mentioned as Poramba.[4]

The territory of the Duchy of Oświęcim was eventually incorporated into Poland in 1564 and formed the Silesian County of Kraków Voivodeship. Upon the First Partition of Poland in 1772 it became part of the Austrian Kingdom of Galicia. After World War I and fall of Austria-Hungary it became part of Poland. It was annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II, and afterwards it was restored to Poland.

## References

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1. ^ "Główny Urząd Statystyczny" [Central Statistical Office] (in Polish). Select Miejscowości (SIMC) tab, select fragment (min. 3 znaki), enter town name in the field below, click WYSZUKAJ (Search)
2. ^ Zinkow, Julian (1994). Oświęcim i okolice. Przewodnik monograficzny (in Polish). Oświęcim: Wydawnictwo „PLATAN“. p. 264\. ISBN 83-7094-002-1.
3. ^ Jan, Ptaśnik (1913). Monumenta Poloniae Vaticana T.1 Acta Camerae Apostolicae. Vol. 1, 1207-1344 (in Latin). Cracoviae: Sumpt. Academiae Litterarum Cracoviensis. pp. 147–150.
4. ^ Prokop, Krzysztof Rafał (2002). Księstwa oświęcimskie i zatorskie wobec Korony Polskiej w latach 1438-1513. Dzieje polityczne (in Polish). Kraków: PAU. p. 151\. ISBN 83-88857-31-2.

## External links

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* Website dedicated to village. GminaOświęcim.pl

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Gmina Oświęcim

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* Babice
* Broszkowice
* Brzezinka
* Dwory II
* Grojec
* Harmęże
* Łazy
* Osada Stawy Grojeckie
* Pławy
* Poręba Wielka
* Rajsko
* Stawy Monowskie
* Włosienica
* Zaborze

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