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Sucha Beskidzka
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| Country | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship | Lesser Poland | ||
| Powiat | Sucha Beskidzka County | ||
| Gmina | Sucha Beskidzka | ||
| Established | 1405 | ||
| City Rights | 1896 | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Stanisław Lichosyt | ||
| Area | |||
| - Total | 27.46 km² (10.6 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 350 m (1,148 ft) | ||
| Population (2004) | |||
| - Total | 9,750 | ||
| - Density | 355.1/km² (919.7/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: www.sucha-beskidzka.pl | |||
Sucha Beskidzka (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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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])
| 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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