Mierzęcice – Wikipedia

Mierzęcice is a village in the Powiat Będziński of the Silesia Voivodeship in Poland. It is the seat of the rural community of the same name with 7623 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2020).

Mierzęcice is located on the northern edge of the Upper Silesian record, approx. 22 km north of Katowice and approx. 13 km north of the district town of Będzin. The Black Przemsa flows through the eastern part of the community.

The village is divided into three school centers ( village council ; Inhabitants of December 31, 2019): ^[2]

• Mierzęcice and , 7.7 km², 1246 inhabitants
• Mierzęcice II , 7.3 km², 706 inhabitants
• Mierzęcice estate , 0.2 km², 820 inhabitants

Already in 1266 the tenth was awarded from the villages of Targoszyce (today a hamlet of Mierzęcice), Przeczyce and toporovitzen by Krakauer Bishop Paweł from Przemanków in Sławków to the church in Mikołów (Nikolai). The award is probably true and was also mentioned without a date by Jan Długosz in the description of the diocese of Krakow from the late 15th century. However, the year 1266 may be a mistake by the coping writer in the 18th century and it was more about 1276. ^[3]

The place Mirzęcice Was in 1357 as Mirzanczicze (next to Thargoschicze ) mentioned for the first time when the privileges granted by the Teschener Duke Kasimir I were confirmed in ten regional villages for Krakauer Bischöfe. ^{[4] [5]}

The place is located in the area around Siewierz, which was spun off from the Duchy of Krakow or Kleinpolen around 1177 and fell to the Silesian Duchy of Ratibor, from 1337 Siewierz belonged to the Duchy of Teschen under the Kingdom of Bohemia. The Duchy of Siewierz was sold in 1443 by the Teschener Herzog Wenzel I to the Krakauer Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki. ^[6]

The first safe mention of the parish in Targoszyce dates from 1411 when the rector of the local parish church was conflict with the Vogt von Beuthen. In the 16th century there was a branch chapel in Mierzęcice, which later took on the role of the parish church, after which the church on the Targoszycer Hügel was the only building in the former village Targoszyce Stand remained – but until the late 18th century, the parish was alternately named after both locations ^[7] In the late 16th century, the parish included in Targoszyce Auch die ortschaften Brudzowice, Mierzęcice, Przeczyce, Sadów, Toporowice und Zawada. ^[8]

It was not until 1790 that the Duchy of Siwierz was formally affiliated to the Kingdom of Poland Litau and was administratively affiliated to the Krakow Voivodeship. After the third division of Poland from 1795, the village belonged to fresh reading until 1807. In 1807 it came to the Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 into the newly created Russian congress poles.

Until 1918 the rural community was under Russian administration. After independence in 1918, the Russian administrative structures were retained in the Kielce Voivodeship. In 1927 the community came to the Powiat Zawierciański. In the attack on Poland in 1939, the area was occupied by the Germans and assigned to the district of Warthenau in the new “Ostoverschallesien”.

Map of the area around Mierzęcice and Targoszyce from 1933

In 1954, community was dissolved in two Gromadas. The village of Mierzęcice was the seat of the Gromada Mierzęcice between 1954 and 1972, which was dissolved on the area reform on January 1, 1973 and the Gmina Mierzęcice was formed again. ^{[9] [ten]} From 1975 to 1998 the place belonged to the Katowitz wodding.

In 2008 the Mierzęcice school office was divided into the Mierzęcice I and Mierzęcice II offices.

The village itself and other villages with a total of ten school centers belong to the rural community (Gmina Wiejska) Mierzęcice.

• St. Nicholas Church in Targoszyce

Part of Katowice Airport is located in the area of ​​the community. The DROGA Ekspresowa S1 and the Droga Krajowa 78 run through the community.

The station Mierzęcice Zawertiańskie On the railway line Tarnowskie Góry – Zawiercie, as much as the majority of the route, is closed.

1. ↑ Central Statistical Office (CSO) Portrait of statistical town in the Mierzęcice commune in 2010. (Exelsheet, Polish, accessed on September 1, 2013)
2. ↑ mierzecice.pl: Auxiliary units. (Polish; accessed November 30, 2020)
3. ↑ Krzysztof Cichoń: Parish Targoszyce-Mierzęcice until the end of the 18th century (in the then diocese of Krakow) , Pp. 57–58 (Polish)
4. ↑ Diplomatic Code of the Cracow Department of Ś. Wacław , 1874, p. 266 (Latin)
5. ↑ Tomasz Jurek (Redakteur): Mirzęcice. In: Historical and geographical dictionary of Polish lands in the Middle Ages. Electronic edition. PAN, 2010, accessed on February 14, 2023 (Polish).
6. ↑ 9. Sale of Severiensis 1443, in: MaurCy Dzieduszycki; Zbigniew Oleśnicki , B. 2, Kraków, 1854
7. ↑ Krzysztof Cichoń: Parish Targoszyce-Mierzęcice until the end of the 18th century (in the then diocese of Krakow) , Pp. 63–65 (Polish)
8. ↑ Henryk Rutkowski (Redakteur), Krzysztof Chłapkowski: Krakow voivodship in the second half of the 16th century; Part 2, commentary, indexes . Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2008 (polnisch, Online ).
9. ↑ Verordnung No. 24/54 Des of the Provincial National Council in Stalinogrod VOM 5. Oktober 1954 über die aufteilung der Gromadas im
10. ↑ Resolution XX/99/72 of the Provincial National Council in Katowice of December 6, 1972 on the creation of municipalities in the Katowice Province (Official Journal of the Provincial National Council in Katowice of December 20, 1972, No. 12, item 103)