Galician Germans

[1] Long before the First Partition of Poland in 1772 a small German language island existed on the western tip of the would-be Galicia in Biała and its vicinity (Hałcnów, Lipnik).

[2] In 1774 Maria Theresa issued a patent aiming to lure German artisans into several local cities, without significant result.

The first meaningful settlement campaign took place in the 1780s, the Josephine colonization, which facilitated the arrival of over 3,200 ethnic German families (around 14,400 people).

[6] The rest came from part of the Galician Jews (the census did not give the opportunity to declare Yiddish language),[7] of whom roughly 20,000 considered themselves German.

[6] As a German-speaking was also qualified the population of Wilamowice, traditionally speaking Wymysorys language.