Jaworzno

Jaworzno is a city in southern Poland, near Katowice. It lays inside the Silesian Highlands, on the Przemsza River a tributary of the Vistula. Jaworzno belongs to the historic province of Lesser Poland. The town is located in the Silesian Voivodeship because its formation in 1999, formerly 1975 to 1999 it was in Katowice Voivodeship. Jaworzno is one of the towns of the 2, 7 million conurbation. Katowice city vicinity and within a extra Silesian metropolitan location populated through about 5,294,000 humans. The populace of the city is 95,520. In the center Ages, a gord was established at the Grodzisko hill, strains of that could still be determined.

First regarded mention of Jaworzno comes from the year 1229, and in 1335, a parish church of St. Wojciech existed here. Jaworzno remained a small village, located in western Lesser Poland, close to plenty larger and more essential metropolis of Chrzanow. Since 1179, the nearby Przemsza River marked the border between Lesser Poland and Silesia. It additionally remained a state border of Poland until 1922. The place of Jaworzno turned into firstly under the rule of thumb of the bishops of Krakow.