The Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) includes an entry for the village of Ociesęki.
Ociesęki and Surrounding Area – 1910
Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary (ELTE Faculty of Informatics,
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics); digital images, Lazarus ELTE
(http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/200e/39-51.jpg: accessed 12 December 2025)
Source: Chlebowski, Bronisław, Władysław Walewski, and Filip Sulimierski, eds., Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1886, Volume VII, page 370.
Click on the link for a PDF copy of the first Słownik Geograficzny entry for Ociesęki. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:
Ociesęki, a village, manor, and estate in Kielce Powiat, Cisów gmina, Ociesęki parish, 32 versts from Kielce. There are deposits of limestone here. The village has a wooden parish church, erected along with the parish in 1610 by the landowner of Ociesęcki, Jan Gołkowski. The current church dates from the 18th century. In 1827, there were 34 houses and 241 inhabitants. On November 28, 1863, a skirmish took place here between the units of Chmieliński and Bosak and the Russian army. The parish, in the Opatów deanery, has 768 souls. In 1883, the Ociesęki estate consisted of the Ociesęki manor, the forest settlements of Igrzycznia, Józwiny, and Zamozysko, and the villages of Ociesęki, Nowa Huta, Wólka Pochłonna, Koziel, Czarna, and Grodno. Area: 1130 mórgs [in the Russian partition 1 mórg = 1.388 acres]; arable land and gardens 265 mórgs, meadows 50 mórgs, pastures 76 mórgs, forest 715 mórgs, unproductive land 24 mórgs; 1 brick building, 22 wooden buildings; 8 and 9-field crop rotation. The forest is unmanaged. In 1883, the Wólka Pochłonna manor (495 mórgs) and Huta Nowa manor (90 mórgs) were separated from this estate. The estate also included: Ociesęki village, 41 households with 592 mórgs of land; Nowa Huta village, 23 households with 181 mórgs of land; Wólka Pokłonna village, 18 households with 327 mórgs of land; Koziel village, 29 households with 337 mórgs of land; Czarna village, 8 households with 119 mórgs of land; Grodno village, 9 households with 180 mórgs of land.
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