Czarny Dunajec
Czarny Dunajec | |
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 Rynek (Market Square) | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Czarny Dunajec | |
| Coordinates: 49°26′22″N 19°51′15″E / 49.43944°N 19.85417°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Lesser Poland |
| County | Nowy Targ |
| Gmina | Czarny Dunajec |
| Founded | 1230s |
| Area | |
| • Total | 21.72 km2 (8.39 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 3,501 |
| • Density | 160/km2 (420/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 34-470 |
| Area code | +48 18 |
| Car plates | KNT |
Czarny Dunajec [ˈt͡ʂarnɨ duˈnajɛt͡s] is a town located in southern Poland near the Polish-Slovak border in a valley alongside a river of the same name.
Czarny Dunajec is the seat of the gmina, belonging to the Nowy Targ County (Polish: Powiat Nowotarski) and in the Lesser Poland.
History
[edit]Czarny Dunajec was founded around 1234.[1] The local Catholic church was founded by starost of Nowy Targ Jan Pieniążek, his wife Zofia Pieniążkowa, sołtys Tomasz Miętus and first parish priest Szymon Bukowiński.[1]
Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, Czarny Dunajec was occupied by Germany until 1945. From late 1940 to January 1943, the Germans operated a forced labour camp for Jews in the town.[2] On May 20, 1942, the Gestapo executed two Jews and one Pole as punishment for aiding Jews.[3]
Transportation and tourism
[edit]Czarny Dunajec is about 60 miles south of Kraków with its international airport. The nearest railway station is in Nowy Targ.
The town is on intersection of the east-west and north-south voievodship roads, that are one of main ways to the Western Tatra and Zakopane mountain region as well as the nearby Chocholow thermal spa.
A local railway line through the valley was dismantled and converted to a cycling path.
Important peatlands are situated to the west and north-west of the town. Czarny Dunajec and Piekielnik were declared as a protected spa area by the Polish government in 2016.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom I (in Polish). Warszawa. 1880. p. 765.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Zwangsarbeitslager für Juden Czarny Dunajec". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 14 December 2023.
- ^ Datner, Szymon (1968). Las sprawiedliwych (in Polish). Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza. p. 88.
External links
[edit]- Municipal Office
- Elementary and Middle School (sometimes offline)
- Jewish Community in Czarny Dunajec on Virtual Shtetl
- Czarny Dunajec (outdated)
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