Elamur LocationsBochnia
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Bochnia — Polish Latin-script name used in English; the native spelling is retained rather than retransliterating the Ukrainian input label.
Other forms in use:
- Salzberg — Historical German name, including Habsburg-era cadastral maps and German occupation documents; not confined to the Nazi period.
- Bokhnya — Yiddish-derived spelling used in English Jewish local-history and cemetery references.
French name
Bochnia — Same spelling as in English; French references retain the local Latin-script name, without a fixed article.
Other forms in use:
- Salzberg — German historical name relevant to French reading of Galician and wartime documents; not the current French name.
About
Bochnia is a town east of Kraków in Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Its historic salt mine forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage property shared with Wieliczka.
Notes
The World Heritage property combines the two salt mines with the saltworks castle at Wieliczka. Input label 'Бохня' is Ukrainian or an indirect spelling; local_name is restored to the native-language form. Historical German name checked against the 1847 cadastral map: https://maproom.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/bochnia-salzberg-1847/ .
Identifiers: Wikidata Q815903 · JSON
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