Bzie
| Bzie | |
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| Sołectwo of Jastrzębie-Zdrój | |
Manor in Bzie
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 Location of Bzie (south-east) within Jastrzębie-Zdrój |
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| Coordinates: 49°56′31″N 18°38′51″E / 49.941990°N 18.647542°ECoordinates: 49°56′31″N 18°38′51″E / 49.941990°N 18.647542°E | |
| Country |
 Poland
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| Voivodeship | Silesian |
| County/City | Jastrzębie-Zdrój |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.72873 km2 (0.66747 sq mi) |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Total | 3,757 |
| • Density | 2,200/km2 (5,600/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Area code(s) | (+48) 032 |
Bzie (German: Goldmannsdorf) is a sołectwo in the south-east of Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It was an independent village but became administratively part of Jastrzębie-Zdrój in 1975.
It has na area of 1728.73 ha and on December 31, 2012 it had 3,757 inhabitants.
The village was first mentioned as Byze and Goldmannsdorf in a document issued by Przemysław of Racibórz on October 25, 1293, allowing Wojan from Pawłowice to (re)colonize 50 Franconian lans on German law between Bzie and Golasowice. Later it was also mentioned a Latin document of Diocese of Wrocław called Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from around 1305 as item in Goltimanni villa debent esse LXIII mansi. The village became a seat of a Catholic parish, the first church was built probably around 1310, and was first mentioned in 1335 as Ecclesia de Goltmansdorff in an incomplete register of Peter's Pence payment in Żory deanery composed by Galhard de Carceribus. In 1409 it was mentioned as Goldmirsdorf (so hieß damals Goldmannsdorf).
Politically the village belonged then to the Duchy of Racibórz, within feudally fragmented Poland. In 1327 the duchy became a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became part of the Habsburg Monarchy. After Silesian Wars it became a part of the Kingdom of Prussia.
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