Jasienica (german: Heinzendorf) is a village and the seat of

Gmina Jasienica Gmina Jasienica is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. Its seat is the village of Jasienica, Silesian Voivodeship, Jasienica. The gmina ...

Bielsko County __NOTOC__ Bielsko County ( pl, powiat bielski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government ref ...

, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It has a population of 5,242 (2016). It is located in the Silesian Foothills and in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. The Polish name is of topographic origins and is derived from

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trees (Polish: ''jesion'', locally ''jasień''). German name is a composition of a personal name Heinz and ''dorf'' (German: a village).

History

The village was first mentioned in a Latin document of Diocese of Wrocław called '' Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis'' from around 1305 as '. It meant that the village was supposed to pay a tithe from 11 greater 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 will be later known as Upper Silesia. 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 Piast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became a fee of the

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, which after 1526 became part of the

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. The village became a seat of a Catholic

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, probably mentioned already in an incomplete register of Peter's Pence payment from 1335 as ''Hankendorf'' and as such being one of the oldest in the region. It was (again?) mentioned in the register of Peter's Pence payment from 1447 among 50 parishes of Teschen

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as ''Heyczendorff''. After the 1540s

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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

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on 16 April 1654. After 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

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and legal district of Bielsko. According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality grew from 1673 in 1880 to 2365 in 1910 with a dwindling majority being native Polish-speakers (from 96.9% in 1880 and 97% in 1890 to 76.3% in 1910) accompanied by a growing German-speaking minority (from 43 or 2.6% in 1880 to 539 or 22.8% in 1910) and a few Czech-speaking persons (at most 8 or 0.5% in 1880), in terms of religion in 1910 majority were Protestants (51.3%), followed by

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(47.1%)

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(23 or 0.9%) and 16 adhering to yet another faith. The village was also traditionally inhabited by

Cieszyn Vlachs The Cieszyn Vlachs ( pl, Wałasi cieszyńscy, cs, Těšínští Valaši) are a Polish ethnographic group (subgroup of Silesians) living around the towns of Cieszyn and Skoczów, one of the four major ethnographic groups in Cieszyn Silesia, the o ...

, speaking Cieszyn Silesian dialect. After

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, fall of

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, Polish–Czechoslovak War and the division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, it became a part of

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. It was then annexed by

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at the beginning of

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. After the war it was restored to

Landmarks

* Catholic

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Church. * Lutheran Resurrection of Christ Church.

Footnotes

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External links

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Official Gmina Jasienica website
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Information about the village at Gmina Jasienica website
{{Authority control Villages in Bielsko County Cieszyn Silesia