Stara Wieś (Silesian Voivodeship)
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An 18th-century parish school house in Stara Wieś
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| Coordinates: 49°54′N 19°5′E / 49.900°N 19.083°E | ||
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 Poland
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| Voivodeship | Silesian | |
| County | Bielsko County | |
| Gmina | Wilamowice | |
| Population | 1,978 | |
| Website | http://starawies.ovh.org/ | |
Stara Wieś (Polish pronunciation: [ˈstara vʲɛɕ], literally "Old Village"; Wymysorys: Wymysdiüf, literally "William's village") is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wilamowice, within Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Wilamowice, 8 km (5 mi) north of Bielsko-Biała, and 40 km (25 mi) south of the regional capital Katowice. The village has a population of 1,978.
According to the tradition Stara Wieś (lit. „Old Village“) was established after First Mongol invasion of Poland by settlers from Flanders, Friesland, Holland and Scotland. Soon after they moved on to found another sister settlement, contemporary Wilamowice, which was first mentioned in 1326 in the register of Peter's Pence payment among Catholic parishes of Oświęcim deanery of the Diocese of Kraków as Novovillamowicz, whereas Stara Wieś was mentioned as Antiquo Willamowicz. In 1444 it became to be known under current name Stara Wieś (German: Altdorf, Wymysorys: Vilmesdur).
Politically both villages belonged 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 Stara Wyesz.
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