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Czorsztyn – the village located in the 14th
century and connected with the historic route from Poland to Hungary going
there. The primal name of the village was Wronin (in Old Polish 'wroni' meant
black). Settlement of German speaking citizens of Spisz (region of Poland)
caused changing the name to Schorstein (from German 'protruding rock') which
was later polonized into Czornsztyn and then Czorsztyn. Nowadays the old
village is under the artificial lake called – Czorsztyn Lake or Czorsztyn Lagoon.
Near the village there are ruins of a Gothic castle. From the 14th
century the castle was an embanked fortification, during the reign of Kazimierz
the Great the castle was changed into brick fortress – the seat of the
Czorsztyn Starosty. Famous people connected with the castle are, among others,
Polish knight Zawisza Czarny and a famous rebel Kostka Napierski. In 1795 the
castle burnt from a lightning and was never rebuild. In 1811 the Czorsztyn
realms became the Austro – Hungarian property. In 1918 the Drohojowski family
bought the place. In 1921 Stanisław Konstanty Drohojowski created on the area
the first private reserve. In the 19th century Czorsztyn became a
summer resort with architecture in style of popular 19th century spa
centres. Czorsztyn was becoming more and more popular and in 1933 the number of
tourist grew to about 1300. The works on the Czorsztyn Dam made the tourist go
away. At those times the citizens
started building their houses around the
Czorsztyn Castle in the area called Nadzamcze. When the dam was finished the
tourists came back and today Czorsztyn is a popular summer resort again. It is
a great base for hiking in Pieniny Mountains, the Tatras, the Gorce Mountains
and Slovakia. Czorsztyn has a lot to offer and therefore it attracts more and
more tourists every year.
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