Bobrek, Cieszyn

Bobrek is a district of Cieszyn, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It was a separate municipality, but became administratively a part of Cieszyn in 1932.

First mentioned in 1322^[1].

According to the Austrian census of 1910 Bobrek had 2,820 inhabitants, 2,790 of whom had permanent residence there. Census asked people for their native language, 2,241 (80,3%) were Polish-speaking, 438 (15,7%) were German-speaking and 111 (4%) were Czech-speaking. Most populous religious groups were Roman Catholics with 1,724 (61,3%) followed by the Protestants with 1073 (38%), 17 Jews (0,6%), and 6 (0,2%) of other religion.^[2]

Historical population:

1802: 464^[3]
1900: 1850 (area of 767 ha)^[4]
1910: 2820
1932: 2984 (767,7 ha)^[5]

Footnotes

^ Miękina 2010, 7.
^ Ludwig Patryn (ed): Die Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1910 in Schlesien, Troppau 1912.
^ Miękina 2010, 11.
^ Gemeindelexikon der im Reichsrate vertretenen Königreiche und Länder, bearbeitet auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1900, XI. Schlesien, Wien 1906.
^ Miękina 2010, 119

References

Miękina, Leon (2010). Po bobreckich śladach.... Cieszyn: Macierz Ziemi Cieszyńskiej. ISBN 978-83-88271-38-5.