Grybów
Grybów | |
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 St. Catherine's Church in Grybów | |
 Coat of arms | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Lesser Poland |
| County | Nowy Sącz |
| Gmina | Grybów (urban gmina) |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Piotr Piechnik |
| Area | |
| • Total | 17 km2 (7 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 6,025 |
| • Density | 350/km2 (920/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 33-330 |
| Car plates | KNS |
| Website | http://www.grybow.pl |
Grybów [ˈɡrɨbuf] (Template:Lang-uk, Hrybiv; Template:Lang-yi; Template:Lang-de, Grynberk (attested 1340),;[1][2][3]) is a town in the Nowy Sącz County, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship of Poland, with 12,409 inhabitants (2005). It is located in the heartland of the Doły (Pits), and its average altitude is 370 metres above sea level, although there are some hills located within the confines of the city, Grybów has the steepest town square in medieval Europe.
Polish writer and traveler Kamil Giżycki was born at Grybów.
History
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From the first partition of Poland in 1772 until 1918, the town was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), head of the district with the same name, one of the 78 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Austrian Galicia province (Crown land) [4].
External links
- Jewish Community in Grybów on Virtual Shtetl
See also
References
- ^ prof. Maria Malec. Słownik nazw geograficznych Polski. 2003. WN PWN. 2007. ISBN 83-01-13857-2
- ^ prof. Stanisław Rospond. Słownik Etymologiczny Miast i Gmin. Ossolineum. Wrocław. 1984. ISBN 83-04-0190-9
- ^ "Thus the region adjoining the Carpathians and extending to a line Tarnów-Rzeszów-Jarosław, the hithero almost uninhabited regio pedemontana was settled by German-speaking Silesians and soon abounded in large Waldhufendorfer with Frankish hides and in towns whose German names were in many case identical with place-names in Silesia (Landskrone, Grunberg, Goerlitz [...] [in:] Göttinger Arbeitskreis. Eastern Germany. Holzner-Verlag, 1961. p. 79.
- ^ Die postalischen Abstempelungen auf den österreichischen Postwertzeichen-Ausgaben 1867, 1883 und 1890, Wilhelm KLEIN, 1967
Seat (not part of the county): Nowy Sącz | ||
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49°37′28″N 20°56′54″E / 49.62444°N 20.94833°E
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