Jakie dzielnice? Dylematy narodzin krakowskiego samorządu 1989–1991

Abstract

At the end of the First Polish Republic, the process of administrative unification of the medieval tripolis with the surrounding jurydyki was started, after the passing of two significant acts on royal towns, which were enacted in 1791 by the Sejm Wielki. This meant the end of the Magdeburg system granted to Kraków in 1257, and the extra muros expansion of the city. The further divisions of Krakow into districts (dzielnice), their form and competences, were not only a function of the territorial expansion of the city, but they were also determined to a great extent by the political systems changing throughout the 19th and 20th century. In 1990 the new administrative division of Kraków became one of the fundamental questions in the heated debate, ongoing then, about the future of the city and the form of the self-government being restored on the Vistula River. For many reasons, it was a precedential question on the country scale at the time.