Iskrzyczyn

Iskrzyczyn [isˈkʂɨt͡ʂɨn] is a village in Gmina Dębowiec, Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.

The name, primordially Iskrzyczyno, is Slavic and possessive in origins derived from personal name Iskrzyca.

It was first mentioned in a document of Bishop of Wrocław issued on 23 May 1223 for Norbertine Sisters in Rybnik among villages paying them a tithe, as Y(I)sc(h)richino.

[2][3] Politically it belonged then to the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz and the Castellany of Cieszyn, which was in 1290 formed in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland into the Duchy of Teschen, ruled by a local branch of Silesian Piast dynasty.

According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality dropped from 481 in 1880 to 430 in 1910, with the majority of inhabitants being native Polish-speakers (97.3%-100%) and in 1890 also a small German-speaking minority (10 or 2.5%), in terms of religion the majority were Roman Catholics (64.7% in 1910), followed by Protestants (35.3% in 1910).