(
Polish: ,
German: ''Stanislowitz'', ''Stänzelsdorf'') is a village in
Karviná District,
Moravian-Silesian Region,
Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality but became administratively a part of
ÄŒeský TěšÃn in 1975. It has a population of 545 (2005).
The name is
patronymic in origin derived from personal name ''
Stanislaus Stanislav and variants may refer to:
People
*Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.)
Places
* Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine
* Stanislaus County, Cali ...
''.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1438 as ''Stanislawicz
'.
Politically the village belonged then to the
Duchy of Teschen, a
fee of the
Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became part of the
Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...
.
After
Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
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a modern
municipal division was introduced in the re-established
Austrian Silesia. The village as a municipality was subscribed to the
political and
legal district of
Cieszyn. According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality dropped from 467 in 1880 to 420 in 1910 with a majority being native Polish-speakers (between 97.9% and 99.3%) accompanied by a few German-speaking (at most 5 or 1.3% in 1900) and Czech-speaking people (at most 3 or 0.8% in 1900). In terms of religion in 1910 the majority were
Roman Catholics
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(66.2%), followed by
Protestants
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(32.9%) and
Jews (4 people). The village was also traditionally inhabited by
Cieszyn Vlachs
The Cieszyn Vlachs ( pl, WaÅ‚asi cieszyÅ„scy, cs, TěšÃnÅ¡tà ValaÅ¡i) 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, t ...
, speaking
Cieszyn Silesian dialect.
After
World War I, fall of
Austria-Hungary,
Polish–Czechoslovak War and the division of
Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, it became a part of
Czechoslovakia. Following the
Munich Agreement, in October 1938 together with the
Zaolzie region it was annexed by
Poland, administratively adjoined to
Cieszyn County
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Cieszyn County ( pl, powiat cieszyński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Czech and Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result o ...
of
Silesian Voivodeship.
It was then annexed by
Nazi Germany at the beginning of
World War II. After the war it was restored to
Czechoslovakia.
See also
*
Polish minority in the Czech Republic
*
Zaolzie
Footnotes
References
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Villages in Karviná District
Neighbourhoods in the Czech Republic
ÄŒeský TěšÃn