Zarzecze (german: Zarzetsche) is a district of
Katowice in southern
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
. It has an area of 5.1 km
2 and in 2007 had 1,902 inhabitants.
The literal meaning of the name is ''a land behind a river''.
History
The oldest settlement in the area of what are now the districts
Piotrowice,
Podlesie and Zarzecze was ''Uniczowy'', a village that existed already in the 12th century. In the 15th century Uniczowy began to crumble into three distinct parts. Zarzecze became independent somewhat in the 16th century.
During the political upheaval caused by
Matthias Corvinus
Matthias Corvinus, also called Matthias I ( hu, Hunyadi Mátyás, ro, Matia/Matei Corvin, hr, Matija/Matijaš Korvin, sk, Matej Korvín, cz, Matyáš Korvín; ), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490. After conducting several m ...
the land around
Pszczyna
Pszczyna (german: Pleß, cs, Pština) is a town in southern Poland with 25,823 inhabitants (2019), and a seat of a local gmina (commune). It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship, and was a part of the Katowice Voivodeship from 1975 until ad ...
was overtaken by
Casimir II, Duke of Cieszyn, 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 ''Zarzeczie''.
The Kingdom of Bohemia in 1526 became part of the
Habsburg monarchy. In the
War of the Austrian Succession
The War of the Austrian Succession () was a European conflict that took place between 1740 and 1748. Fought primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic and Mediterranean, related conflicts included King George's ...
most of Silesia was conquered by the
Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia (german: Königreich Preußen, ) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918. Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. ...
, including the village.
References
Districts of Katowice
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