Woźniki | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Silesian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Zawiercie |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Irządze |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 50.6281°N 19.6325°W |
Woźniki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Irządze, within Zawiercie County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4km (02miles) west of Irządze, 210NaN0 north-east of Zawiercie, and 620NaN0 north-east of the regional capital Katowice.
Woźniki is one of the oldest villages in the Wadowice region, founded in the 12th century. In 1242, the voivode of Opole and castellan of Oświęcim, Klement of Ruszcza, exchanged Woźniki for Podłęże and Ostrów near Kraków with the Benedictine monks from Tyniec. Later, the village came into the possession of Mikołaj Bychko (Byczko), Marek's brother-in-law from Poręba, who sold Woźniki in 1324 to the Cistercians from Mogyła, who owned it until the end of the 17th century. As part of the Josephine reforms, after confiscation in 1806, the Austrian government sold Woźniki to Count. T. Dzieduszycki, whose daughter Paulina sold the entire estate to Tytus Drohojowski. At the end of the 19th century, Józefa Błażowska, née Drohojowska, had a small amount of arable land in Woźniki, while the remaining part was parceled out.[2] [3]