Municipality Zawoja
Zawoja Commune consists of two villages: Zawoja and Skawica, located in the Żywiec Beskids, in the valley of the river Skawica (left tributary of the Skawa), in the northern foot of Babia Góra (1725 meters above sea level) and between Bandwidth Jałowieckim the northwest, and the Bandwidth Police in the South East . The slopes of the hills surrounding villages to occupy a significant amount of farmland, forests above and in the dorsal region of the clearing paddocks old by now abandoned and slowly overgrown forest, for example. Mędralowa Hall, Kaminski and Trzebuńska a band of Jałowieckim, on the slopes of the Black Hall of Babia Góra, meadow Broski and almost completely forested Hall in the band of the cream Policy.
Geologically, this area belonging to the Outer Carpathians, is made of flysch. Here there are different types and classes of soils; dominated by the middle class and low. The climate is characterized by frequent changes: sunny days it is only about 20% of the year, winds blow mostly from the north-west and west, there is also a mountain breeze.
Ridge of Babia Gora and the western section of the Police Band runs the European watershed that separates the Baltic Sea catchment area of the Black Sea basin.
The massif of Babia Gora classic story occurs plants. In the forests surrounding Zawoja and Skawica grow firs, spruces, sycamores, maples, larches, rowan, mainly in the undergrowth raspberries, blackberries, elderberries and coral. Below are growing birch and spruce.
In the vicinity of the village lives a lot of representatives of the fauna: wild boars, deer, hares, squirrels, as well as predators: foxes, polecats, weasels, pine martens. Occasionally there are lynx, and even bears and wolves, once the permanent residents of the local forests. Among the birds you can meet woodpeckers, thrushes, tits, goldcrests, jays, and birds of prey such as buzzards, owls and owls. There are also amphibians and reptiles: lizards, newts, frogs and snakes - mostly grass snakes and vipers.
In 1954, on Babia Gora was created Babiogórski National Park, in 1977, included in the network of Biosphere Reserves.
Since its inception, Skawica and Zawoja Lanškroun belonged to the county, to goods Makowski. After the partitions with them became Austrian-owned. In 1839 they purchased the good Count Philippe Saint - Genois d'Aneancourt, whose son Maurice sold it in 1878 to the owner of goods Zywiec Albrecht of Habsburg. His heir threatened confiscation after Poland regained its independence, it passed in 1924, Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow.
The commune inhabited by Highlanders Babiogórscy also called Babiogórcami - ethnographic group is currently engaged in the area of the river valley and its tributaries Skawica. The first arrivals were mostly so. people looser, free hunter, tar makers, peasants often escaped from surrounding estates. Planned action settlement here also led the county Lanckorona - the administrator of the site. This very diverse community, typical of the border areas was at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dominated by the strongest wave of settlement - Wallachian, which has had a huge impact on the entire culture of Babia Góra.
Even in the nineteenth century was the foundation of the local economy, herding, to a lesser extent agriculture. Sheep and cattle grazing in the surrounding forest clearings in the band of the Policy, Juniper, Babia Gora. Mainly cultivated oats, potatoes, at the end of the nineteenth century began to appear rye, barley, cabbage and peas. An additional source of income for the local population was working in the forest and in the local industrial plants.
Compact construction dominates the village stream valleys, and the slopes are scattered numerous hamlets. Wooden houses, built on the framework, were originally covered with a hipped roof, then pitched, shingled. The most commonly observed single-building homestead; on one side of the hallway centrally located (or so. pitch - a kind of barn) was a part of the living, the other economic. The characteristic two-family houses were also called. houses on the two ends, housed under one roof, two separate apartments, each composed of business and residential components. Typical for the local construction industry were free-standing wine cellars, built using the natural terrain, small mills and sawmills. The church building noteworthy numerous roadside shrines. Very interesting are the belfries Loreto on płanetniki (demons carrying hail and storm clouds). One of them is in Zawoja Czatoży, another in Zawoja Gołyni.
Today, in the commune survived only a few examples of traditional construction, some of them gathered in a small open-air museum in Zawoja Markowa.
The local folk costume already in the early twentieth century, almost completely obsolete. Women wore white shirts with long sleeves, wool corsets, mostly green, with a modest floral adornment in the form of twigs, so-called. Lily, usually dark skirts so. printed canvas (dark blue in fine white pattern), white linen embroidered petticoats and aprons. Married women still in the second half of the nineteenth century wore bonnets covered with a colorful scarf. Impose shoulder embroidered linen rańtuski, in the second half of the nineteenth century, ousted by silk handkerchief with a fringe, and winter thick woolen. Wore beads around his neck. Men wore white linen shirt, white cloth pants, so. beech, decorated with little green parzenice in the form of trefoil braids and colorful embroidery on the bottom, while cutting the legs. Were put on a shirt tunic, usually blue, with metal buttons on top and knee-length Guni, brown, decorated at the edge of the fronts and on the collar embroidered belt. Headgear was a felt hat with a wide brim podgiętym up, winter sheepskin hat. Belts worn several inches wide, so-called. bands, the same as in Podhale. Until the early twentieth century was used kierpców, ubieranych on a cloth or wool sock leggings.
It is worth mentioning that in Zawoja and Skawica, as well as all over the Subcarpathian region between the sixteenth and nineteenth century there was zbójnictwo. Zbójnickich companies belonged to the Highlanders locals, many of them work in the village, sought refuge in the forests, and finally wandered through here on the rich Orava.
We invite you to relax in our community.
Zawoja Commune consists of two villages: Zawoja and Skawica, located in the Żywiec Beskids, in the valley of the river Skawica (left tributary of the Skawa), in the northern foot of Babia Góra (1725 meters above sea level) and between Bandwidth Jałowieckim the northwest, and the Bandwidth Police in the South East . The slopes of the hills surrounding villages to occupy a significant amount of farmland, forests above and in the dorsal region of the clearing paddocks old by now abandoned and slowly overgrown forest, for example. Mędralowa Hall, Kaminski and Trzebuńska a band of Jałowieckim, on the slopes of the Black Hall of Babia Góra, meadow Broski and almost completely forested Hall in the band of the cream Policy.
Geologically, this area belonging to the Outer Carpathians, is made of flysch. Here there are different types and classes of soils; dominated by the middle class and low. The climate is characterized by frequent changes: sunny days it is only about 20% of the year, winds blow mostly from the north-west and west, there is also a mountain breeze.
Ridge of Babia Gora and the western section of the Police Band runs the European watershed that separates the Baltic Sea catchment area of the Black Sea basin.
The massif of Babia Gora classic story occurs plants. In the forests surrounding Zawoja and Skawica grow firs, spruces, sycamores, maples, larches, rowan, mainly in the undergrowth raspberries, blackberries, elderberries and coral. Below are growing birch and spruce.
In the vicinity of the village lives a lot of representatives of the fauna: wild boars, deer, hares, squirrels, as well as predators: foxes, polecats, weasels, pine martens. Occasionally there are lynx, and even bears and wolves, once the permanent residents of the local forests. Among the birds you can meet woodpeckers, thrushes, tits, goldcrests, jays, and birds of prey such as buzzards, owls and owls. There are also amphibians and reptiles: lizards, newts, frogs and snakes - mostly grass snakes and vipers.
In 1954, on Babia Gora was created Babiogórski National Park, in 1977, included in the network of Biosphere Reserves.
Since its inception, Skawica and Zawoja Lanškroun belonged to the county, to goods Makowski. After the partitions with them became Austrian-owned. In 1839 they purchased the good Count Philippe Saint - Genois d'Aneancourt, whose son Maurice sold it in 1878 to the owner of goods Zywiec Albrecht of Habsburg. His heir threatened confiscation after Poland regained its independence, it passed in 1924, Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow.
The commune inhabited by Highlanders Babiogórscy also called Babiogórcami - ethnographic group is currently engaged in the area of the river valley and its tributaries Skawica. The first arrivals were mostly so. people looser, free hunter, tar makers, peasants often escaped from surrounding estates. Planned action settlement here also led the county Lanckorona - the administrator of the site. This very diverse community, typical of the border areas was at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dominated by the strongest wave of settlement - Wallachian, which has had a huge impact on the entire culture of Babia Góra.
Even in the nineteenth century was the foundation of the local economy, herding, to a lesser extent agriculture. Sheep and cattle grazing in the surrounding forest clearings in the band of the Policy, Juniper, Babia Gora. Mainly cultivated oats, potatoes, at the end of the nineteenth century began to appear rye, barley, cabbage and peas. An additional source of income for the local population was working in the forest and in the local industrial plants.
Compact construction dominates the village stream valleys, and the slopes are scattered numerous hamlets. Wooden houses, built on the framework, were originally covered with a hipped roof, then pitched, shingled. The most commonly observed single-building homestead; on one side of the hallway centrally located (or so. pitch - a kind of barn) was a part of the living, the other economic. The characteristic two-family houses were also called. houses on the two ends, housed under one roof, two separate apartments, each composed of business and residential components. Typical for the local construction industry were free-standing wine cellars, built using the natural terrain, small mills and sawmills. The church building noteworthy numerous roadside shrines. Very interesting are the belfries Loreto on płanetniki (demons carrying hail and storm clouds). One of them is in Zawoja Czatoży, another in Zawoja Gołyni.
Today, in the commune survived only a few examples of traditional construction, some of them gathered in a small open-air museum in Zawoja Markowa.
The local folk costume already in the early twentieth century, almost completely obsolete. Women wore white shirts with long sleeves, wool corsets, mostly green, with a modest floral adornment in the form of twigs, so-called. Lily, usually dark skirts so. printed canvas (dark blue in fine white pattern), white linen embroidered petticoats and aprons. Married women still in the second half of the nineteenth century wore bonnets covered with a colorful scarf. Impose shoulder embroidered linen rańtuski, in the second half of the nineteenth century, ousted by silk handkerchief with a fringe, and winter thick woolen. Wore beads around his neck. Men wore white linen shirt, white cloth pants, so. beech, decorated with little green parzenice in the form of trefoil braids and colorful embroidery on the bottom, while cutting the legs. Were put on a shirt tunic, usually blue, with metal buttons on top and knee-length Guni, brown, decorated at the edge of the fronts and on the collar embroidered belt. Headgear was a felt hat with a wide brim podgiętym up, winter sheepskin hat. Belts worn several inches wide, so-called. bands, the same as in Podhale. Until the early twentieth century was used kierpców, ubieranych on a cloth or wool sock leggings.
It is worth mentioning that in Zawoja and Skawica, as well as all over the Subcarpathian region between the sixteenth and nineteenth century there was zbójnictwo. Zbójnickich companies belonged to the Highlanders locals, many of them work in the village, sought refuge in the forests, and finally wandered through here on the rich Orava.
We invite you to relax in our community.