Simoradz

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

The name originates from a personal name Siemorad[1] or according to another sources from old Moravian language "sim oradz", meaning to till a land.

It was first mentioned in a written document from 1286 as Semoradz,[1] which recalls the local parson who supposedly read a curse on Henryk IV Probus in the church in Racibórz.

It was again mentioned in a Latin document of Diocese of Wrocław called Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from around 1305 as item in Semoraz debent esse XX mansi, de quibus ad ecclesiam ibidem pertinent V) mansi ab antiquo.

Local Catholic parish, undoubtedly one of the oldest in the region, was again attested in an incomplete register of Peter's Pence payment from 1335 as Zimoracz.

Rużiczka was replaced by Jerzy Raszka in 1888, who made back Polish language official in municipality.

The village is situated on one of the hills of the Silesian Foothills,[9] which height is 350 m (1,150 ft) above sea level, 15 km (9.3 mi) north of the Silesian Beskids; It's ensconced in the north and south by two streams, right tributaries of the Knajka stream, in the watershed of the Vistula.