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Haczów

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Haczów

Total population

3,370

Elevation284 m
Coordinates49.67°, 21.89°

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Elevation
284 m

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Overview

Haczów is a village in Brzozów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Haczów.

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History

The first mention of Haczów from 1352, when Casimir III the Great issued a foundation charter for the colony of "Haczów". The village was founded in 1378 by the Walddeutsche on Magdeburg Law as a German Settlement village named Hanshoff, Hanshau. On February 7, 1388, king Wladyslaw Jagiello confirmed the foundation document and he created the Roman Catholic parish in Haczów during his stay in Sandomierz. Archaeologists have discovered church burials from the late 14th or early 15th century, which show the size of the city in those times. From this time period the Pietà originates, which was later crowned by Pope John Paul II in 1997 in Krosno. In 1402, the parish was bought by Schindeler Mathias, a cechmistrz from Krosno. In the year 1426 the village was sold for 300 parish fines. The proof of the kingship of these sites are provided by a document from 1504 in which King Aleksander Jagiellończyk gave Sanok, Haczów, Besko, and Wróblik Jan of Tarnow to a Ruthenian palatine in exchange for the loan of 2,300 zł. In 1520, king Zygmunt II August allowed a steward of Queen Jadwiga' court to purchase for 1200 zł the sołectwo of Haczów, and again in 1533 the king allowed the treasurer of the royal court, Marcin Wolski, to purchase the parish and sołectwo from the heirs of the deceased Nicholas Piotrowski . According to church documents, in 1604 the local population still spoke German (see Walddeutsche ), thus explaining the origin of the polonised German names which the villagers have today. In 1624 the village was mostly destroyed by the Tatars, among the things that survived was the church. During this period, a number of cholera epidemics swept the village and in 1698 a large fire destroyed the majority of the village. The owners of the Haczów sołectwo are: * 1426 -…

Geography

The village lies west of Brzozów and east of Krosno. The village is extended along the Wisłok river for and the entire village covers an area approximately .

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Geography

Latitude
49.6715
Longitude
21.8896
Water area
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Avg solar (kWh/m²/day)
3.06
Annual solar (kWh/m²)
1,116

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121
Avg daily Wikipedia views
4
Attention level
Obscure

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Official Identifiers

GUS — Statistics Poland

SIMC code
0351248
Population (Wikidata)
3,209
Wikidata
Q995762

SIMC place ID via Wikidata P4046

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  • • Wikipedia
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  • • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
  • • Wikipedia Pageviews API
  • • GUS — Statistics Poland — SIMC place ID via Wikidata P4046