From 1560 Bielsko was held by Frederick Casimir of Cieszyn, son of Duke Wenceslaus III Adam, who due to the enormous debts his son left upon his death in 1571, had to sell it to the Promnitz noble family at Pless.
He ceded several rights to some towns, for example Bytom (where in 1412 he give the right to inheritance to the burgers), Frýdek and Bielsko.
It comprises a large part of the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia (except for Bielsko, Frýdek and several villages in the western and eastern part of Cieszyn Silesia belonging to Euroregion Beskidy).
The industrial development was overshadowed by the more industrial neighbouring town of Bielsko.
A small 1.3 L (1,248 cc) version (called the SDE, Small Diesel Engine) is produced in Bielsko-Biała, Poland and in Ranjangaon, Pune, India by Fiat India Auto.
The opera Blume und Weissblume was presented in 1910 in Hagen, Westphalia, and in 1912 in Bielsko, and was popular not only because of these two performances, but also because of sensationalist coverage in the press.
International connectivity is provided through cross-border dark fibres at 10 Gbit/s to the ACOnet node in Vienna, the CESNET node in Brno and the PIONIER node in Bielsko-Biała, as well as local links in Bratislava to the points of presence of GÉANT (1 Gbit/s) and of GTS (2Gbit/s).
Władysław Okarmus set about designing a new wing, with flaps, for use with the SZD-48-3 fuselage, the resulting off-spring was named SZD-49 Jantar K. First flight of the prototype, (SP-2583, X-143), took place at Bielsko in October 1978.
Bielsko-Biała | Bielsko | Bielsko County | ''The Tree Hugger Project'', Installation in Wilkowice, Bielsko County |
Also, there were cases of tax evasion, bribery and partisan distribution of ration stamps to purchase passenger vehicles (stamps to purchase the coveted Fiat 126, manufactured at Bielsko-Biała’s Fabryka Samochodów Małolitrażowych, almost exclusively were handed to Party officials.
Dariusz Libionka born in 1963 in Bielsko-Biała is a Polish historian focused on the status of Jewish citizens in the Polish Republic, matters of Judaism and the Polish-Jewish relations.
Jacek Lech (born Leszek Zerhau on 15 April 1947 in Bielsko-Biała, d. 25 March 2007 in Katowice) was a popular Polish singer.
He also gave city rights to several towns: Cieszyn, Oświęcim (in 1291), Bielsko, Skoczów and Fryštát.
archaeology: Materials from excavation research on the castle mountain in Cieszyn and in the town centers of Międzyświeć and Bielsko
Currently the network connects Białystok, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Puławy, Radom, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław, Koszalin, Szczecin, Olsztyn and Zielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s patch-cord, and consists of 5738,86 km of optical fiber.
It is also the regular participant of many amateur theater festivals in Lithuania (Vilniaus rampa, Juoko sūkurys, Atspindžiai) and in Poland (in Kraków, Bielsko-Biała, Rzeszów, Tychy, Głogów, Bełżyce).
Bielsko County, in Silesian Voivodeship (south Poland), the county seat being Bielsko-Biała
Rudolf Komorek (born 11 October 1890 in Bielsko; died 11 December 1949 in São José dos Campos) was a Salesian missionary from Silesia.
The organization conducted projects on preservation of the Wapienica Valley in Bielsko-Biała, they protested against building a coke plant just by the Polish border in Stonava in the Czech Republic, against building of a nuclear power plant in Żarnowiec as well as against deforestation of Bielsko-Biała.