Chabówka

Chabówka [xaˈbufka] is a village located on the outskirts of the southern Polish town of Rabka, in the Nowy Targ County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship.[1] With population of 1,600 (as for 2006), Chabówka is a popular tourist attraction because of its location near the Gorce Mountains featuring Gorce National Park.

Chabówka
Locomotive museum
Chabówka
Coordinates: 49°36′N 19°56′E
Country Poland
VoivodeshipLesser Poland
CountyNowy Targ County
GminaGmina Rabka-Zdrój
Population
 (2006)
 • Total1,600
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
34-720
Area code(s)+48 18
Car platesKNT
Websitewww.chabowka.info

It also is an important rail junction, placed along the main line from Kraków to Zakopane, with another connection, to Nowy Sącz, beginning in Chabówka. Near the rail station there is a railway museum, with many examples of Polish-operated locomotives and rail cars.

Chabówka shares its name with the northern Slovak village and municipality of Habovka in the Žilina Region. This is because the first settlers of Habovka came from the Polish village of Chabówka, which lent the new settlement its name[2]

Church of St. Brother Albert built in 1994

References
  1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. Portal Tatrzański http://portaltatrzanski.pl/przewodnik/miejscowosci/chabowka,99. Retrieved 2018-11-26. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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