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Bucze, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Bucze
Village
Bucze is located in Poland
Bucze
Bucze
Coordinates: 50°2′1″N 20°36′0″E / 50.03361°N 20.60000°E / 50.03361; 20.60000
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Lesser Poland
County Brzesko
Gmina Brzesko
Population 1,327
Website http://bucze.malopolska.pl

Bucze [ˈbut͡ʂɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brzesko, within Brzesko County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Brzesko and 48 km (30 mi) east of the regional capital Kraków.

Sat in the midst of fields and forest village, situated a few kilometers north of Brzesko. By 1975, in the province of Cracow, eyelid Brzesko. In the years 1975-1998 area was the Tarnow province. The village consists of the following hamlets:

The first mention of Bucze supposedly derived from the twelfth century as a village belonging to the parish in Szczepanów. The first recorded date is 1596 years, as a community of Mokrzyska. In 1932 the village became a separate village communities as a result of administrative reform. The year 1951 is to create an independent parish, which established the then Bishop of Tarnow Jan Stepa. Previously, Bucze was part of the parish of Szczepanów. It happened four years after construction of the magnificent church in Bucze dedicated Our Lady of Perpetual Help. In Bucze can see more than a dozen old wooden houses and farm buildings present the type of rural construction in Kraków from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Within the parish there are several roadside shrines and statues dating from the late nineteenth century and recently built. The oldest is the (formerly wooden) chapel standing in a grove on the site of the former pond in front of the cemetery. According to local tradition, was issued about the eighteenth century with the foundation Marcinkowskich, then owners of the village. Inside it is a popular figure of St. John of Nepomuk.

In the cemetery gate is a wooden chapel with an image of St. Stanislaus of Szczepanów. Folk sculptor Stanislaw Zachara in 1884 from the trunk of lime carved figure of St. Stanislaus. In 1900, people just built this chapel, which in later years was several times renewed. In 2008, the chapel has gained a new grid input. Opposite the chapel is the Well of Saint Stanislaus. According to local legend, the well stands in the place where the holy while on his way to Kraków, he felt thirsty. He hit so the ground with his cane, and after a while the water flowed from it. The well for many years was set low on the ground. In 2009, the well raised and fenced.


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