Ludźmierz

Ludźmierz ( German: Ludemannsdorf ) is a Polish village in the municipality in the district of Nowy Targ Nowotarski in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Ludźmierz is located north of the Tatra Mountains, about 65 kilometers south of Krakow, 2 km east of Nowy Targ, and has about 2,400 residents.

Its history is connected with Cistercians who came to the region in the 13th century. The Cistercians were drawn from Jędrzejów to the colonization of the Podhale region. 1234 establishes the voivode of Kraków, Teodor Gryfita the village, builds the church and the monastery for Cistercians. In this period we also saw the immigration of German colonists ( Forest German ). The parish is Ludźmierz to 1824 under the rule of the Cistercians.

After Ludźmierz of Pope John Paul II made ​​a pilgrimage to the sanctuary, to Our Lady Queen of Podhale, also called " peasant woman of Podhale " called. In the neo-Gothic church from 1877, he lingered before the statue of Our Lady of Ludźmierz, carved in wood in the 15th century.

In Ludźmierz Kazimierz Przerwa - Tetmajer a Polish poet, writer and playwright, was born.