Andrychow

Andrychow is the most important metropolis in Wadowice County in southern Poland, in Little Beskids, in ancient place Lesser Poland, with 22,257 inhabitants as of 2006. It has been situated inside the Lesser Poland Voivodeship considering the fact that 1999. Previously, it became located in Bielsko Biala Voivodeship 1975 to 98. The mayor of Andrychow is Tomasz Zak. Andrychow is home to a sports membership Beskid, established in 1919. Andrychow lies at the river Wieprzowka. Andrychow become first stated in the records of Peter's pence in 1344 as a small village inside the Duchy of Zator however a present church becomes already referred to in 1325. In 1345 Andrychow is stated to have population of 105 and to cowl the place of 27 km2. Most probable,

its first residents were settlers from Klatovy in southern Bohemia. Jan Dlugosz in his Liber beneficiorum calls it Gendrychow, writing that it changed into a small village in the Silesian Duchy of Zator. In ca. 1440 the Zator Castle changed into captured by using Polish troops, and subsequently, the Duchy of Zator, together with Duchy of Oswiecim were incorporated into Kingdom of Poland on February 20, 1564, as Silesian County of Krakow Voivodeship, Lesser Poland.