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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Rajcza
| settlement_type = Village
| total_type =  
| image_skyline = Rajcza biernatka prosta.jpg
| image_caption = View of Rajcza
| image_flag =
| image_shield =
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Silesian Voivodeship|Silesian]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Żywiec County|Żywiec]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Rajcza|Rajcza]]
| coordinates = {{coord|49|30|25|N|19|6|27|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = right
| elevation_m =
| population_total = 3438
| website =
}}
'''Rajcza''' {{IPAc-pl|'|r|a|I|cz|a}} is a [[village]] in [[Żywiec County]], [[Silesian Voivodeship]], in the historic province of [[Lesser Poland]], close to the border with [[Slovakia]]. It is the seat of the [[gmina]] (administrative district) called [[Gmina Rajcza]].{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|22|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south of [[Żywiec]] and {{convert|83|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south of the regional capital [[Katowice]].

== Location and transport ==
Rajcza lies in the [[Żywiec Beskids]], on the [[Soła]] river, near ''Żywiec Landscape Park''. The village has a rail station, on the line from Żywiec to the Polish-Slovakian border. It is a popular tourist destination, with guest houses and winter sports facilities.

== History ==
The village of Rajcza was founded in the first half of the 17th century, when this area belonged to [[Kraków Voivodeship (14th century – 1795)|Kraków Voivodeship]], of the [[Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth]]. At that time Rajcza belonged to Queen [[Constance of Austria]], the wife of King [[Sigismund III Vasa]], part of her [[folwark]] with main center located at [[Węgierska Górka]]. Following the [[Partitions of Poland]] Rajcza, together with southwestern Lesser Poland, became annexed by the [[Austrian Empire]] (1772). In 1843, iron manufacture was opened here, and 1854–1894, the owner of the village, Teodor Primavesi, remodeled a local palace, establishing a park around it. In 1884 Rajcza got rail connection with Żywiec and [[Cadca]], and 10 years later, the village was purchased by the [[Lubomirski family]], who expanded the palace. In 1914, Rajcza was bought by Żywiec branch of the [[Habsburgs]]. In 1880 the village had 2,037 inhabitants, with 140 Jews, and 25 Germans.

In the [[Second Polish Republic]] Rajcza became a popular tourist destination. At that time, it had a Jewish minority, which in 1921 was estimated at 132. During [[World War II]], Rajcza, together with whole Żywiec County, was directly incorporated into the [[Third Reich]]. Local Jews were transported to a ghetto in [[Sucha Beskidzka]], and then murdered in death camps. In October 1940, during [[Action Saybusch]], 115 Polish families (501 persons) were forced to abandon their houses. The Poles were replaced with ethnic Germans from [[Bucovina]]. In May 1945, Rajcza was captured by the [[Red Army]]. Until 1975, the village remained in Kraków Voivodeship. In 1975 - 1999, it belonged to [[Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship]].

== Points of interest ==
* Parish church of St. Lawrence (1890),
* Palace of Karol Stefan Habsburg, which in [[World War I]] was a military hospital,
* Palace park,
* Kornhauser family house (19th century).

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category-inline|Rajcza}}
* [http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/city/rajcza/ Jewish Community in Rajcza] on Virtual Shtetl

{{Gmina Rajcza}}

[[Category:Villages in Żywiec County]]
[[Category:Holocaust locations in Poland]]
[[Category:Sites of Nazi war crimes in Poland]]

Rajcza - Revision history

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