Harbutowice, Silesian Voivodeship

Harbutowice is a village in Gmina Skoczów, Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.

It lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.

[1][2] Politically the village belonged then to the Duchy of Teschen, a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became part of the Habsburg monarchy.

According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality grew from 361 in 1880 to 369 in 1910, with majority of the inhabitants being native Polish-speakers (96.5–98.9%) and minority German-speaking (most 3.5% in 1900), with a slight majority of Roman Catholics (51% in 1910), followed by Protestants (46.1% in 1910) and Jews (11 people).

It was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II.