Osiek, Oświęcim County
| Osiek | |
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16th-century wooden church in Osiek
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 Osiek
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| Coordinates: 49°56′57″N 19°15′57″E / 49.94917°N 19.26583°E | |
| Country |
 Poland
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| Voivodeship | Lesser Poland |
| County | Oświęcim |
| Gmina | Osiek |
| First mentioned | 1278 |
| Population | 6,300 |
| Website | http://www.osiek.pl/ |
Osiek [ˈɔɕek] (German: Bratmannsdorf) is a village in Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Osiek. It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) south of Oświęcim and 50 km (31 mi) west of the regional capital Kraków.
The village has a population of 6,300.
The village and a local church were first mentioned in 1278 as ecclesia de Ossech. It was again mentioned in 1326 in the register of Peter's Pence payment among Catholic parishes of Oświęcim deaconry of the Diocese of Kraków as Ossek.
Politically it belonged initially to the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz and the Castellany of Oświęcim, which was in 1315 formed in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland into the Duchy of Oświęcim, ruled by a local branch of Silesian Piast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia. In 1457 Jan IV of Oświęcim agreed to sell the duchy to the Polish Crown, and in the accompanying document issued on 21 February the village was mentioned as Osschek.
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