Sucha Beskidzka

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Sucha Beskidzka

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Sucha Beskidzka

Coordinates: 49°44′25″N 19°35′19″E / 49.74028, 19.58861

Country

Poland

Sucha Beskidzka (urban gmina)

Established

1405

Town rights

1896

Government

- Mayor

Stanisław Lichosyt

Area

- Total

27.46 km² (10.6 sq mi)

Elevation

350 m (1,148 ft)

Population (2006)

- Total

9,726

- Density

354.2/km² (917.3/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

- Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

Postal code

34-200

Area code(s)

+48 33

Car plates

KSU

Website: http://www.sucha-beskidzka.pl

Sucha Beskidzka [ˈsuxa bɛsˈkʲit͡ska] (before 1961 called only Sucha) is a county town in Beskid Żywiecki mountain range in southern Poland (see: Sucha County). It has been in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999; previously it was in Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship (1975-1998).

1 History
2 Education
3 Famous people from Sucha Beskidzka
4 Twin towns
5 External links

History

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It developed strongly in the end of the 19th century owing to a railway junction: Kraków - Sucha Beskidzka - Zakopane and Żywiec - Sucha Beskidzka.

Since the beginning of the 20th century it is the centre of the mountainous tourism in this part of the Beskidy Mountains (part of the Carpathians). In the town there are some examples of old architecture: a Renaissance castle (16th cent.), called Little Wawel, a church with a cloister (17th cent.) and an old wooden inn, called Rzym (Rome) (18th cent.).

Education

In the town, there are two higher education schools:

College for the Foreign Languages Teachers (Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych, NKJO (Polish))
Higher School of the Tourism and Ecology (Wyższa Szkoła Turystyki i Ekologii, WSTiE)

Historical populations
Census	Pop.	%±
1827	1,811
1848	1,842	1.7%
1870	2,280	24%
1900	4,214	85%
1921	5,151	22%
1931	6,004	17%
1939	6,250	4.1%
1946	* 5,866	-6.1%
1960	6,599	12%
1970	7,751	17%
1980	8,735	13%
1989	9,754	12%
2001	9,810	0.6%
2002	9,737	-0.7%
* Approx. 400 Jews killed during World War II.^{[citation needed]}

Famous people from Sucha Beskidzka

Billy Wilder
Walery Goetel

Twin towns

External links

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Sucha Beskidzka

Official website of the Sucha Beskidzka county (Polish)

Coordinates: 49°44′N 19°36′E / 49.733, 19.6

v • d • e Gminas of Sucha County

Urban gminas	Sucha Beskidzka (seat) • Jordanów

Urban-rural gmina	Gmina Maków Podhalański

Rural gminas	Gmina Budzów • Gmina Bystra-Sidzina • Gmina Jordanów • Gmina Stryszawa • Gmina Zawoja • Gmina Zembrzyce