Sól (Salt)

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Salt is a village in Poland located in Silesia, in the district of Zywiec, in the municipality Rajcza.
It lies in the western part of the group of Velka Raca in the south - western part of the Beskidy Mountains, in the district in the Silesia region Żywiec.
It is situated in the valley Słanicy between Rachowcem ( north ) and back Oźnej mountan.
The history of salt dates back to the eighteenth century, when it was inhabited by 15 farmers. In the years 1975-1998 was a village in the province of Bielsko .
The village probably founded in the sixteenth century, founded by settlers Wallachian, who came from the Hungarian side. The name of the village comes from the saline springs, which had once exploited, obtaining salt by evaporation of saline waters. Salt cooked to 1808. However, the Austrian authorities in 1823 ordered the salt build in a primitive source of glass buried. In the years 1920-1930 were searched for in the vicinity of the Salt of crude oil. During the drilling carried out during 1947-1950 at a depth of 1,300 m drilled sodium chloride hot spring (39 ° C).
In the village there are brine wells, located in the center. These are salt - sodium chloride, iodide and bromide- iodide. The water is salty in the source and its mineralization is approximately 40g/litr. Solanki rusty color is not suitable for drinking.
In the village of pastoral activities leads the Roman Catholic Church (parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Salt can be found in holiday resorts (in Zagajce ) and private accommodation.
From this village came and a robber while gelding retinue of Juraj Janosik, who along with his loot in Kysuce and Moravia.