Włosienica, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
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 Włosienica
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| Coordinates: 50°1′N 19°19′E / 50.017°N 19.317°E | ||
| Country |
 Poland
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| Voivodeship | Lesser Poland | |
| County | Oświęcim | |
| Gmina | Gmina Oświęcim | |
| First mentioned | 1285 | |
| Elevation | 240 m (790 ft) | |
| Population | 1,491 | |
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Włosienica [vwɔɕeˈnit͡sa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south-east of Oświęcim and 45 km (28 mi) west of the regional capital Kraków.
The village has a population of 1,491.
The village was first mentioned in 1285 in the document allowing komes Adam to establish a new village Sępnia (contemporary Poręba Wielka), which would lay close to Włosienica. In 1345 a church in a village of Villa Hertmani is mentioned, which was an alleged name of Włosienica, as it could have belonged to a nearby castellan named Herman (1304-1317). Since 1470 to the 20th century the village was endowed to Oświęcim Catholich parish.
Politically it belonged initially to the Duchy of 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 Włoszenycza.
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