Sucha Beskidzka
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  Sucha Beskidzka
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| Country |  Poland |
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| Voivodeship | Lesser Poland | ||
| County | Sucha | ||
| Gmina | Sucha Beskidzka (urban gmina) | ||
| Established | 1405 | ||
| Town rights | 1896 | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Stanisław Lichosyt | ||
| Area | |||
| - Total | 27.46 km² (10.6 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 350 m (1,148 ft) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| - Total | 9,726 | ||
| - Density | 354.2/km² (917.3/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 34-200 | ||
| Area code(s) | +48 33 | ||
| Car plates | KSU | ||
| Website: http://www.sucha-beskidzka.pl | |||
Sucha Beskidzka [ˈsuxa bɛsˈkit͡ska] (before 1961 called only Sucha) is a county town in Beskid Żywiecki mountain range in southern Poland (see: Sucha County). It has been in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999; previously it was in Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship (1975-1998).
It developed strongly in the end of 19th century thanks to railway junction: Kraków - Sucha Beskidzka - Zakopane and Żywiec - Sucha Beskidzka.
Since the beginning of the 20th century it is the centre of the mountainous tourism in this part of the Beskidy Mountains (part of the Carpathians). In the town there are some examples of old architecture: worth seeing is the Renaissance castle (16th cent.), called Little Wawel, the church with cloister (17th cent.) and the old wooden inn, called Rzym (Rome) (18th cent.).
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[edit] Education
In the town, there is two higher education schools:
- College for the Foreign Languages Teachers (Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych, NKJO, [1])
- Higher School of the Tourism and Ecology (Wyższa Szkoła Turystyki i Ekologii, WSTiE, [2])
[edit] Population by year
| Historical populations | ||
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| Census | Pop. | %± |
| 1827 | 1,811 | |
| 1848 | 1,842 | 1.7% |
| 1870 | 2,280 | 24% |
| 1900 | 4,214 | 85% |
| 1921 | 5,151 | 22% |
| 1931 | 6,004 | 17% |
| 1939 | 6,250 | 4.1% |
| 1946 | * 5,866 | -6.1% |
| 1960 | 6,599 | 12% |
| 1970 | 7,751 | 17% |
| 1980 | 8,735 | 13% |
| 1989 | 9,754 | 12% |
| 2001 | 9,810 | 0.6% |
| 2002 | 9,737 | -0.7% |
| * Approx. 400 Jews killed during World War 2. |
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[edit] Famous people from Sucha Beskidzka
- Billy Wilder
- Walery Goetel
[edit] Twin towns
Tvrdošín, Frombork, Jászberény
[edit] External links
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