Nowy Sącz

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History

Nowy Sącz was founded on 8 November 1292 by the Polish and Bohemian ruler Wenceslaus II, on the site of an earlier village named Kamienica. The foundation of Nowy Sącz took place due to the efforts of Bishop of Kraków, , who owned Kamienica. Upon request of the bishop, Wenceslaus II granted it Magdeburg rights, making it the only Polish town founded by the Bohemian king. Its name was taken from the nearby town of Stary Sącz. As early as 1329, the name was spelled Nowy Sandacz. In the 14th and 15th century Nowy Sącz emerged as one of the most important economic and cultural centres of this part of the Kingdom of Poland. The town benefited from its proximity on the trade route to Hungary due to privileges granted by King Władysław I the Elbow-high, and later his son, Casimir III the Great, for supporting him during the Rebellion of wojt Albert in 1311–1312. During these times, the majority of the town's inhabitants were German colonists. In the 15th century it produced steel and woollen products, and nearly rivalled Kraków in visual arts. In 1329, Nowy Sącz signed a treaty with Kraków, upon which Kraków merchants, on their way to Hungary, had to stop at Nowy Sącz; Nowy Sącz merchants, on their way to Gdańsk, were obliged to stay at Kraków. In the mid-14th century, King Casimir the Great built a royal castle here and surrounded the town with a defensive wall. Nowy Sącz was the seat of a castellan and a starosta, becoming an important point in the system of defence of the southern border of Poland. The town was further elevated in 1448 when Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki promoted a local church to the status of a Collegiate. Nowy Sącz was a royal city of Poland, administratively located in the Kraków Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province. Nowy Sącz prospered in the Polish…

Geography

Nowy Sącz is located at the confluence of the Kamienica River and Dunajec, about north of the Slovak border, in the Sądecka Valley (Kotlina Sądecka) at an altitude of . It is surrounded by ranges of the eastern Outer Western Carpathian Mountains: Beskid Sądecki to the south, Beskid Wyspowy to the west, Beskid Niski to the southeast, and the foothills of Pogórze Rożnowskie to the north. The geological basis is Carpathian flysch – an undifferentiated grey-banded sandstone – with alluvial sediment from the Dunajec, Poprad, and Kamienica rivers in the valley basin. Nowy Sącz is the governmental seat of Nowy Sącz County part of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, [https://web.archive.org/web/20051104235755/http://um.wrotamalopolski.pl/J_Angielski/Informacje/ Województwo Małopolskie] since 1999. Between 1975 and 1998 it was the provincial seat of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship. Before that and during the Second Polish Republic, Nowy Sącz was a county seat in the Kraków Voivodeship. In 1951 it became a town with the rights of a county. It is the historic and tourist centre of Sądecczyzna, the Sądecki district. Nowy Sącz has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb) using the isotherm or a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfb) using the isotherm. The climate is temperate, with an average annual rainfall of about . The range of temperatures is from -33,5 °C on 11 February 1956 to 36,8 °C on 8 August 2013. For example the lowest December temperature was recorded on 31 December 1978 it was -30,3 °C.

Most-observed species

• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  138
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  102
• European Grass Snake

  Natrix natrix (Linnaeus, 1758) · Squamata
  101
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  95
• Black-headed Gull

  Chroicocephalus ridibundus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  88
• Common Merganser

  Mergus merganser Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  87
• common adder

  Vipera berus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Squamata
  86
• Common Buzzard

  Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  81

Most recent

• M 5 — 2023-10-09
  15 km SE of Stropkov, Slovakia
• M 3.1 — 2006-06-25
  10 km S of Bukowina Tatrza?ska, Poland
• M 2.6 — 2005-08-24
  6 km N of Ko?cielisko, Poland
• M 2.8 — 2005-06-02
  7 km S of Czarny Dunajec, Poland
• M 3.6 — 2005-01-29
  2 km NNE of Czarny Dunajec, Poland
• M 3 — 2005-01-23
  1 km SSW of Czarny Dunajec, Poland