Czechowice-Dziedzice
Czechowice- Dziedzice [ ʧɛxov ʲ iʦɛ ʥɛʥiʦɛ ] ( German Czechowitz - Dzieditz, also Czechowitz - Dziedzitz, 1943-1945: Czechoslovak joke) is an industrial town with 35,000 inhabitants in the powiat Bielski in Silesia, Poland.
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Geography
It is located halfway between each eight kilometers Pszczyna ( Pless ) and Bielsko- Biala on the right bank of the Vistula River, between the mouths of the Bialka (Polish: Biała) and Lobnitz (Polish Wapienica ).
History
The village Czechowice dates from the early 14th century on the high ground south of the Vistula river valley during the German occupation of the Beskidenvorlandes to Bielsko. The extensive Waldhufendorf that the name was originally Chotowicz Theutonicum ( German Chotowicz ), was settled from the 15th century increasingly Polish- population.
The first mention of Dziedzice dates from the same time. The village in the valley of the Vistula was a small settlement with Polish law.
The development of both places for industrial sites was at the middle of the 19th century. Dzieditz received by the establishment of the Austrian Northern Railway from Vienna to Krakow in the years 1847-1855, a railway station and became the starting point for the connecting routes to Bielsko (1855 ) and Katowice (1870 ). To the important railway junction between the Prussian Upper Silesia and Austrian Silesia and Galicia arose oil refineries and a rolling mill for the Upper Silesian zinc production that were present on the Vistula good settlement conditions. The well-known Saxon Lead goods manufacturer Jung & Lindig from Freiberg established a branch here. Since there was the train station on the corridor boundary between the two villages, this soon grew together into one unit.
1910 aufgeteuft in the mouth region of Bialka into the Vistula the Silesia - bay. The southernmost coal mine of the Upper Silesian coalfield delivered their coal mainly to Vienna.
Czechowitz and Dzieditz are in the area of the former Duchy of Cieszyn Silesia. Politically among these places since the first half of the 13th century to the crown of Bohemia, then to 1918 for Crown Land Austrian Silesia the Habsburg monarchy. Until the First Partition of Poland (1772 ), the river Biala as eastern boundary of Czechowitz formed at the same time the border between the Roman-German Empire and Poland. 1920, the town was part of Poland.
Between 1939 and 1945, both places belonged to the German district of Bielsko. In 1940 both sites were combined to give the name of the place first Czechowitz - Dzieditz, from 1943 only Czecho joke was. The renaming in Vistula Hammer was already prepared, but was not carried out.
In place a satellite camp of KZ Auschwitz and in 1942 a resettlement camp for Poles was born.
After the Second World War, the merger has been retained. 1950 Czechowice received its town charter. In 1958, the name of the city in Czechowice- Dziedzice was changed.
Population Development
(Data prior to 1940 always include both places )
Community
The urban and rural community Czechowice- Dziedzice covers an area of 66 km ², of which about 43,000 inhabitants. Its members include the following locations:
- Bronów ( Braunau )
- Czechowice- Dziedzice
- Ligota ( Ellgot )
- ZABRZEG
- Renardowice ( Rennersdorf )
Twinning
The town is twinned since 1991 with Hiddenhausen in North Rhine -Westphalia ( Germany )
Sons and daughters of the town
- Witold Szalonek (1927-2001), composer
- Józef Świder (* 1930 ), Composer
- Zbigniew Rudziński ( b. 1935 ), composer
- Piotr Beczala (* 1966), tenor
- Łukasz Piszczek ( born 1985 ), football player