Sobienie Szlacheckie is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

Gmina Sobienie-Jeziory __NOTOC__ Gmina Sobienie-Jeziory is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Sobienie-Jeziory, which lies approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) south of Otwock ...

Otwock County __NOTOC__ Otwock County ( pl, powiat otwocki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government refo ...

, in central Poland. The population is near 300. It lies approximately north-east of

Sobienie-Jeziory Sobienie-Jeziory is a village in Otwock County, Poland. As of 2000, the population was 700. It is the capital of a Gmina Sobienie-Jeziory (commune). It lies approximately south of Otwock and south-east of Warsaw. In the 18th century, Jacek Jez ...

, south of

Otwock Otwock is a city in east-central Poland, some southeast of Warsaw, with 44,635 inhabitants (2019). Otwock is a part of the Warsaw Agglomeration. It is situated on the right bank of Vistula River below the mouth of Swider River. Otwock is hom ...

, and south-east of

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

History

The "Szlacheckie" is a historical suffix, which means belonging to nobility (Polish: ''

szlachta The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in the ...

''). There is a preserved historic palace and park ensemble in the village. In 1827, the village had a population of 239. From 1975 to 1998 it was administratively located in

Siedlce Voivodeship Siedlce Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975–1998, superseded by Masovian Voivodeship and Lublin Voivodeship. Its capital city was Siedlce. Major cities and towns (population ...

Transport

The

Voivodeship road According to classes and categories of public roads in Poland, a voivodeship road ( pl, droga wojewódzka) is a category of roads one step below national roads in importance. The roads are numbered from 100 to 993. Total length of voivodeship r ...

739 runs through the village.

Airport

There is an airport with ICAO code EPSJ in the village. It can host planes up to 5700 kg, including also ultra light.

References

Villages in Otwock County {{Masovian-geo-stub