Hażlach

Village

Elementary school and church of St. Bartholomew

Coat of arms

Hażlach

Coordinates: 49°48′14.25″N 18°39′49.82″E / 49.8039583°N 18.6638389°E

First mentioned

1305

Area

12.33 km² (4.76 sq mi)

Population (2008)

2,221

• Density

180/km² (470/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

Postal code

43-419

Car plates

SCI

Website

http://www.hazlach.pl

Hażlach [ˈxaʐlax] (German: Haslach) is a village and the seat of Gmina Hażlach in Cieszyn County in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It has a population of 2,221 (2008).

The name of the village is of topographic Austro-Bavarian origins (-?).

The village lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It was first mentioned in a Latin document of Diocese of Wrocław called Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from around 1305 as item in Hesleth debent esse viginti mansi.. It meant that the village was supposed to pay a tithe from 20 smaller lans. The creation of the village was a part of a larger settlement campaign taking place in the late 13th century on the territory of what would later be known as Upper Silesia. The name of the village, of Austro-Bavarian origin, may indicate that the initial settlers were ethnic Germans, later fully polonised.

Politically the village belonged initially to the Duchy of Teschen, formed in 1290 in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland and was ruled by a local branch of the Silesian Piast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became a part of the Habsburg Monarchy.

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