The Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) includes two entries for the village of Dubiecko, the first is in Volume II.
Ritter, Karl. 1855. “Administrativ-Karte von Den Königreichen Galizien und Lodomerien.” Wien: Verlag und Eigenthum von Artaria & Co.; digital images, Polona (https://polona.pl/item-view/9341ec1b-5a4b-44a5-9f6b-a22c716faf46?page=36: accessed 30 November 2025)
Source: Sulimierski, Filip, Bronisław Chlebowski, and Władysław Walewski, eds., Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1885, Volume II, pages 187-188.
Click on the link for a PDF copy of the first Słownik Geograficzny entry for Dubiecko Vol. II. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:
Dubiecko (with Czerwonka), a town, Przemyśl County, lies on the left bank of the San, at 49°50′ north latitude, 40°4′ east longitude, on the government highway running from Przemyśl to Dukla, 3.5 miles from Przemyśl, on the very border of the administrative counties of Przemyśl and Brzozów. The area of the property includes: 52 large arable land, 20 meadows and gardens, 21 pastures; 237 smaller arable land, 24 meadows and gardens, 24 pastures, Austrian morgen. Population: Roman Catholic 690, Greek Catholic 114, Israelites up to 700, total 1,505; townspeople mainly coopers and shoemakers. A post office and two parishes are on site. The Roman Catholic parish belongs to the Dynów deanery of the Przemyśl diocese. A report of a visit to this parish by Bishop Sierakowski, from a manuscript by Andrzej Bobola, former parish priest and hospital superior in Dubiecko (1576), describes how the village of Dubiecko, once located near the San River where the settlement of Ruska Wieś now stands, was relocated by Piotr Kmita, voivode of Sandomierz, to its present location, and King Władysław Jagiełło, at Kmita’s request, granted the village town rights. According to Bobola, Piotr Kmita built a church dedicated to St. Nicholas there at the beginning of the 15th century and secured the parish priest’s income. According to local sources, this foundation dates back to 1407, which is all the more credible given that, in a document from 1408 (the will of Jan, canon and parish priest of Przemyśl), Mikołaj, parish priest of Dubiecko, is also mentioned among other witnesses. The heirs of the aforementioned Piotr Kmita enlarged the foundation, namely Mikołaj Kmita, castellan of Przemyśl and heir of Dubiecko, founded an altar and a prebend [a prebend is land or an endowment used to finance the church and its clergy] around 1447; his son, Dobiesław, voivode of Lublin, endowed the college with three mansionaries [a mansionary is a church sexton whose role was to provide maintenance to the church property] in 1471, from which time on, local parish priests began using the title of provost. In 1551, Stanisław Mateusz Stadnicki, then owner of Dubiecko, having abandoned the Catholic faith, sent Albert of Iłża, an apostate, from his Niedźwiedź estate in the Kraków diocese to Dubiecko. He ordered him to celebrate the Lutheran liturgy first in the hospital church and then in the parish church. He expelled the Catholic parish priest and confiscated the benefice grant. Stadnicki, having become a Calvinist, took under his care Franciszek Stankar, who had been forced to flee Krakow due to heresy. Stankar opened schools in Dubiecko to spread the Reformation, to which young people flocked from all over the world. Due to the spread of the Reformation, the Przemyśl chapter of 1562 resolved that the Dubiecko school, suspected of heresy by the board of the Przemyśl cathedral school, be dissolved. Around 1621, in Dubiecko, heretical prints, now very rare, were published under the name of Jan Szeliga. In 1588, Andrzej Stadnicki, son of the aforementioned Stanisław, cleared Dubiecko of heretical unrest and restored the Catholic cause to its former state. The former parish church, dedicated to Saints Mikołaj, Stanisław, and Marcin, formerly stood next to Dubiecko Castle; but Grzegorz Krasicki of Siecin, the starost of Dolina, demolished it in 1626 under the pretext that it hindered the castle’s defense against enemy attacks. Parish services were moved to the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in the suburbs, which stands on the same site as the present church. In the 18th century, a new church was built thanks to the efforts of Michał Witosławski, a Przemyśl canon and Dubiecko parish priest, funded by contributions from the faithful. It was consecrated in 1755 by Wacław Sierakowski, Bishop of Przemyśl, under the patronage of the Holy Apostles Simon and Jude. Family tradition and Dubiecko archives attribute the construction of the parish church to Anna Krasicka, née Starzechowska, widow of Jan, castellan of Chełm, as confirmed by her portrait in the church, which depicts her holding a plan of the Dubiecko church. In addition to the Church of the mansionaries of the Holy Cross and the Church of the Hospital of the Poor of the Holy Spirit, records also mention the Chapel of St. Anne, located outside the city in the direction of Babice, near the road leading from Dubiecko to the settlement of Nienadowa. On February 3, 1735, Ignacy Krasicki, Bishop of Warmia and a famous poet, was born in the Dubiecko Castle. To the Roman Catholic parish in Dubiecko belong: Drobobyczka, Huta Drohobycka, Hucisko Nienadowskie, Nienadowa, Polechowa and Słonne, Przedmieście, and Ruska Wieś. The total number of Catholics in the entire parish is 5,252, of Israelites 1,696. The Greek Catholic parish of the Bircza deanery includes, in addition to the town of Dubiecko, the following towns: Przedmieście, Nienadowa, Hucisko, Śliwnica, Drohobyczka, and Bachorzec (until 1871, St. John’s Orthodox church stood here, which burned down that year); the total number of Greek Catholic parishioners is 636. The records of the Greek Catholic parish of Dubiecko contain evidence that such a parish had existed for a long time. In 1591, Łuka Teleśnicki was priest in Dubiecko under the inheritance of Stanisław Krasicki, castellan of Przemyśl. In 1674, Wasyl Korytnicki purchased the Dubiecko parish for 200 Polish zlotys for himself, his wife, and his descendants from Jerzy Krasicki, heir to Dubiecko. In 1747, Grzegorz Teleśnicki, a local priest, bought the Dubiecko popostwo [a popostwo was a Ruthenian parish district] for himself and his descendants for 354 Polish złoty. In 1753, a new church was built at the expense of the court and the community in Dubiecko. There are also documents from 1774 and 1775: the first, a donation of a piece of land for the church in Bachórz by Antoni Krasicki of Siecin, Count of Krasiczyn, Colonel of the Crown Army, Knight of the Order of St. Stanislaus, the Dubiecki and Ruskowiejski estates, the keys of the hereditary lord; the second, a gift made by the same Antoni Krasicki to Father Jerzy Teleśnicki, parish priest in Dubiecko, and, as a result of this gift, a decree nominating the said parish priest in Skopowo as parish priest in Dubiecko, issued in Latin by Atanazy Szeptycki Szeptycki, Greek Catholic Bishop of Przemyśl, at the episcopal residence in Straszewice on March 22, 1775. Since 1588, when Stanislaw Krasicki of Siecin, steward of Anna Jagiellon, the Przemyśl castellan, acquired Dubiecko (with Sliwnica, Przedmieście, Drohobyczka, Połchów, Rybno, Podbukowina, Słonne Wola Jawornicka, Ruska Wieś, and Przysada), thus since the 16th century these estates have belonged to the Krasickis; only Dubiecko Castle and Śliwnica belong to Count Stanisław Konarski, born of Krasicka. The Dubiecko castle holds the archives of the Krackis and related houses, as well as letters from Bishop Ignacy, his portrait painted by Mieris, and three volumes of his manuscripts. A beautiful park stands on the banks of the San River. Around 1608, Dubiecko burned down; that same year, Jan Żabczyc published a poem in Krakow lamenting the fire. B[ronisław] R[ozwadowski]
The second entry for Dubiecko in the Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) is in Volume XV (Part 1).
Source: Chlebowski, Bronisław, Józef Krzywicki, Filip Sulimierski, and Władysław Walewski, eds., Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1900, Volume II, page 445.
Click on the link for a PDF copy of the second Słownik Geograficzny entry for Dubiecko Vol. XV. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:
Dubiecko, city, Przemyśl powiat. In 1508 Barbara Kmita, the wife of the castellan of Przemyśl, paid from Dubiecko and villages belonging to it 31-1/2 grosze and 6 denarii [the denarius was worth about 1/10 of a grosz]. The city gives a czopowe [czopowe is a tax on the production, import, and sale of alcoholic beverages] of 5 grzywna [an old Polish monetary unit, equivalent to the Western mark] and 7 grosze. In 1515, she paid 8 grosze, and from the mill 3 grosze. In 1589 she gave 9 florins from 22 craftsmen and merchants, and from 3 wheel mills. Near the city is the Dubiecko Przedmieście and Dubiecko-Ruskie (today Ruska Wieś).
According to Wikipedia, the Parish of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubiecko currently serves the villages of Dubiecko, Nienadowa Dolna, Przedmieście Dubieckie, Słonne, Śliwnica, Wybrzeże, and Winne-Podbukowina.
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