Tymbark is a village in southern
Poland, some 80 km south-east of
Kraków, population 2,400 (2004 data). It lies approximately west of
Limanowa
Limanowa (german: Ilmenau, yi, לימינוב ''Liminuv'') is a small town in southern Poland, in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It is the capital of Limanowa County and had a population of 15,132 in 2012.
History
Mentions of the town date ba ...
and south-east of the regional capital
Kraków.
Tymbark was granted city rights in 1357 by King
Casimir III of Poland
Casimir III the Great ( pl, Kazimierz III Wielki; 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370) reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370. He also later became King of Ruthenia in 1340, and fought to retain the title in the Galicia-Volhynia Wars. He wa ...
. The town's original name was ''Jodłowa Góra'' (literally: ''firry mountain''), but as the majority of first burghers came from German lands, the name was soon
Germanised as ''Tannenberg'', which gave origin to the current one, used from about the 16th century. Tymbark lost the city status in 1934; now it is the administrative centre of
Gmina Tymbark
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Gmina Tymbark is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Limanowa County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Tymbark, which lies approximately north-west of Limanowa and south-east of the region ...
.
In 1936 the Podhalańska Fruit and Vegetable Cooperative was established in Tymbark, which developed into a successful business. The cooperative was nationalised in 1950, reprivatised in 1995 and now operates as ''
Tymbark S.A.'', producing
fruit preserves, drinks and juices.
Tymbark is twinned with
Whaley Bridge in
England.
References
Town history
External links
Villages in Limanowa County
Kraków Voivodeship (14th century – 1795)
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Kraków Voivodeship (1919–1939)
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