Żywiec
Żywiec [ ʒɨv ʲ ɛʦ ] ( German Saybusch; older Saubusch ) is a town with about 30,000 inhabitants in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland.
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Geography
The city is located in the Beskid Mountains at the confluence of Koszarawa in the Soła about 18 km south-east of Bielsko- Biala. In the neighborhood is the triangle with the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
History
Large parts of the former rule Saybusch in Austrian Galicia were land purchases of Duke Albert of Saxe- Teschen, a son of the Saxon- Polish King August III. , 1810 part of the reign of Teschen.
As Albert died childless, the goods came through adoption and inheritance to a branch of the Habsburgs, which made Saybusch to his headquarters later. 1933 died here Karl Stephan of Austria. Castle Saybusch is now owned by his granddaughter Maria Cristina of Habsburg, the daughter of the Polish Major General Karl Albrecht of Habsburg- Altenburg, who was in the Nazi period in custody.
After the Polish campaign of 1939 the place belonged - rückbenannt in Żywiec - October 26, 1939 to the German Reich. He trained as a center of the homonymous district (Landkreis Saybusch ) a part of the new administrative district of Katowice in the Prussian province of Silesia, from 18 January 1941 in the province of Upper Silesia.
As part of the so-called Saybusch action were sold between September and December 1940 to the occupied territories of the country's 17,993 Saybuscher Poland. Most were resettled in the General Government. Young men were partially deported as forced laborers in the German Empire.
Since 30 November 1940, the city was managed by a German Amtskomissar.
The award of the rights of the German church order of 30 January 1935, the city was Saybusch from 1 April 1942 to end of war at the head of the local administration, a German mayor.
Attractions
- Ring with Hall
- Belfry
- Church of the Nativity of Mary ( Co-Cathedral )
- Holy Cross Church
- Old Castle
- Habsburg lap
- Castle Park with Chinese House
- Old Fire Station
In the vicinity of the Żywiec Beskids in the little funicular railway from the village to the mountain Międzybrodzie Żywieckie Góra Żar runs ( 767 m).
Sons and daughters of the town
- Wilhelm Brasse (1917-2012) - Polish photographer and concentration camp survivor
- Marek Motyka (born 1958 ) - Polish football coach
- Agata Wróbel ( born 1981 ) - Polish weightlifter
- Tomasz Jodłowiec (* 1985) - Polish footballer
- Monika Brodka (* 1987) - Polish pop singer
- Magda (born 1978 ) - Polish / American DJ
Economy
Żywiec is mainly - famous for its beer - not only in Poland. The most widespread in Poland Zywiec beer is named after the city.
The beer
The same beer is brewed in the town brewery and is very well known in Poland. The brewery was built in 1856 in Żywiec, it is now part of Heineken group. The brewing museum is an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. Also known are the mineral springs.
Twinning
Żywiec has twinned with:
- Unterhaching, Germany
- Riom, France
- Čadca, Slovakia
- Adur District Council, UK
- Gödöllő, Hungary
- Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia
- Szczytno, Poland