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Jankowice
Village
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Location of Jankowice
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Coordinates: 50°0′5″N 18°59′18″E / 50.00139°N 18.98833°E / 50.00139; 18.98833
Country Poland
VoivodeshipSilesian
CountyPszczyna
GminaPszczyna
Population2,697
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationSPS

Jankowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pszczyna, within Pszczyna County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 4 km (2.5 miles) north-east of Pszczyna and 28 km (17 miles) south of the regional capital Katowice.

History

The village lies in the historical region of Upper Silesia.

In the Middle Ages, the area was part of the territory of the Vistulans tribe, one of the Polish tribes. It became part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century. As a result of the fragmentation of Poland, it was part of the Polish Seniorate Province and Duchy of Racibórz. Later on, the village passed under Bohemian (Czech) suzerainty, and in the 15th century, it became part of the newly formed Duchy of Pszczyna. During the political upheaval caused by Matthias Corvinus the duchy was overtaken in 1480 by Casimir II, Duke of Cieszyn from the Piast dynasty, who sold it in 1517 to the Hungarian magnates of the Thurzó family, forming the Pless state country. In the accompanying sales document issued on 21 February 1517, the village was mentioned as Jankowicze. Along with the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1526 it became part of the Habsburg monarchy. In the War of the Austrian Succession most of Silesia was conquered by the Kingdom of Prussia, including the village, and in 1871 it became part of the German Empire.

After World War I in the Upper Silesia plebiscite, 467 out of 505 inhabitants voted in favour of rejoining Poland, which just regained independence, compared to 38 for Germany. It later became a part of Silesian Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic. On September 3, 1939, during the German invasion of Poland which started World War II, the German Freikorps committed a massacre of 13 Poles in the village, including a family of six with four children aged 8 to 14 (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation). The village was then occupied and annexed by Nazi Germany. After the war, in 1945, it was restored to Poland.

Transport

The Voivodeship road 931 runs through the village and the National road 1 runs nearby, west of the village.

Sports

The local football team is Znicz Jankowice. It competes in the lower leagues.

References

  1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 1 June 2008.
  2. Orlik, Zygmunt (2012). Poręba: z życia podpszczyńskiej wsi (in Polish). Pszczyna: Towarzystwo Miłośników Ziemi Pszczyńskiej. p. 13. ISBN 978-83-62674-16-9.
  3. Musioł, Ludwik (1930). "Dokument sprzedaży księstwa pszczyńskiego z dn. 21. lutego 1517 R." Roczniki Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk na Śląsku. R. 2. Katowice: nakł. Towarzystwa ; Drukiem K. Miarki: 235–237. Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  4. "Results of the Upper Silesia plebiscite in Pless/Pszczyna County" (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-05-02. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
  5. Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 134.
  6. "Skarb - Znicz Jankowice". 90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 July 2021.
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