Zembrzyce z is a village

Village

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 in Sucha County

Sucha County

Sucha County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. Its administrative seat and largest town is Sucha Beskidzka, which lies south-west of the regional capital Kraków...

, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Lesser Poland Voivodeship

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, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina

Gmina

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 (administrative district) called Gmina Zembrzyce

Gmina Zembrzyce

Gmina Zembrzyce is a rural gmina in Sucha County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Zembrzyce, which lies approximately north of Sucha Beskidzka and south-west of the regional capital Kraków....

. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of Sucha Beskidzka

Sucha Beskidzka

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 and 40 km (25 mi) south-west of the regional capital Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

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The village has a population of 2,900.

History

Village Zembrzyce is the oldest village of Sucha Beskidzka district. The oldest document confirming its existence as Zubrzic comes from 1333. Probably however the village was established even earlier – perhaps in the second half of the 13th century. The area of Zembrzyce was a border between Silesia and Lesser Poland in Medieval Times. At the time Zembrzyce belonged to the Duchy of Oświęcim. These were the dukes of Oświęcim that established the village and built a fortified castle on a hill nearby the Skawa river. Nowadays, there aren’t any ruins of the castle just the remains of the moat and the place is called Zamczysko. Still, the spot is considered mysterious and fascinating to the locals.
Throughout centuries Zembrzyce were private property of nobility. The owners then changed the name of the village as to sound similar to their surname- Zubrzyccy. In the 16th century the final name Zembrzyce was established and it remains until today. Thanks to the owners’ efforts, in 1533 Zembrzyce became a separate parish. From the 16th century there were numerous changes of the village owners.

From the 20th century Zembrzyce became specialized in the tanning industry.