Ustroń

Infobox Settlement
name = Ustroń

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image_caption = St. James' Lutheran Church
image_shield = POL Ustroń COA.svg
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pushpin_label_position = bottom
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Silesian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Cieszyn
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Ustroń (urban gmina)
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Ireneusz Adam Szarzec
established_title = First mentioned
established_date = 1305
established_title2 = Town rights
established_date2 = 1956
area_total_km2 = 58.92
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 15420
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd = 49 | latm = 43 | lats = 9.82 | latNS = N | longd = 18 | longm = 48 | longs = 43 | longEW = E
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 43-450
blank_name = Car plates
blank_info = SCI
website = http://www.ustron.pl

Ustroń Audio-IPA-pl|Ustron.ogg|'|u|s|t|r|o|ń ( _de. Ustron) is a health resort town in Cieszyn Silesia, southern Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been in Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship (1975-1998). It lies in the Silesian Beskids mountain range.

According to the Austrian census of 1910 the town had 4,275 inhabitants, 4,265 of whom had permanent residence there. Census asked people for their native language, 3,917 (91.8%) were Polish-speaking and 333 (7.8%) were German-speaking. Jews were not allowed to declare Yiddish, most of them thus declared the German language as their native. Most populous religious groups were Protestants with 2,439 (57%) followed by Roman Catholics with 1,728 (40.4%) and the Jews with 107 (2.5%). [Ludwig Patryn (ed): " [http://www.kc-cieszyn.pl/biblioteka/strony/ramka.php?autor=Patryn&licz=1 Die Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1910 in Schlesien] ", Troppau 1912.]

The village has a futuristic outlook because of a cluster of pyramid-shaped hotels. It is also the home of the Museum of Metallurgy. The Równica and Czantoria mountains are nearby and hikable from the town center.

port

* Kuźnia Ustroń - football team from 1922, without special successes

Education

* Wyższa Szkoła Inżynierii Dentystycznej im. prof. Meissnera

Twin towns

* Budapest, Hungary
* Hajdúnánás, Hungary
* Luhačovice, Czech Republic
* Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany
* Piešťany, Slovakia
* Ustronie Morskie, Poland

References

External links

*en iconde icon [http://www.ustron.pl/ Official web site of Ustroń]