Frelichów is a village in
Gmina Chybie
Gmina Chybie is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. Its seat is the village of Chybie.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its ...
,
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 ...
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Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.
It lies in the historical region of
Cieszyn Silesia.
History
The beginnings of the village are connected with a
folwark ''Fröhlichhof'' founded here by
Teschener Kammer around 1698. The settlement that emerged to accommodate its workers grew to become a small but separate village. Politically it belonged to the
Duchy of Teschen, a
fee of the
Kingdom of Bohemia and also a 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
The Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire were a set of revolutions that took place in the Austrian Empire from March 1848 to November 1849. Much of the revolutionary activity had a nationalist character: the Empire, ruled from Vienna, incl ...
a modern
municipal division was introduced in the re-established
Austrian Silesia. The village as a municipality was subscribed to the
political district of
Bielsko and the
legal district of
Strumień
Strumień (german: Schwarzwasser, cs, Strumeň) is a town and the seat of Gmina Strumień, in Cieszyn County, in the Silesian Voivodeship (province) of southern Poland, on the Vistula River.
It is located in the north-eastern part of the hist ...
. According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality grew from 258 in 1880 to 294 in 1910 with a majority being native Polish-speakers (least 89.1 in 1900, most 96.5 in 1880) followed by a small German-speaking minority (at most 31 or 10.6% in 1900), in terms of religion in 1910 majority were
Roman Catholics
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(267 or 90.8%), followed by
Protestants
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(18 or 6.1%) and
Jews (9 or 3.1%).
The village was also traditionally inhabited by
Cieszyn Vlachs, 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
Poland. It was then
annexed
Annexation (Latin ''ad'', to, and ''nexus'', joining), in international law, is the forcible acquisition of one state's territory by another state, usually following military occupation of the territory. It is generally held to be an illegal act ...
by
Nazi Germany at the beginning of
World War II. After the war it was restored to
Poland.
Footnotes
References
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Villages in Cieszyn County
Cieszyn Silesia
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