{"id":1566,"date":"2007-07-27T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/27\/the-polish-village-of-pyrzowice\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T21:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T04:11:43","slug":"the-polish-village-of-pyrzowice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1566","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of Pyrzowice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I wrote about the location of the Polish village of Pyrzowice at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. An unambiguous way to identify the location at that time would be:<\/p>\n

Pyrzowice, O\u017carowice Gmina, B\u0119dzin Powiat, Piotrk\u00f3w Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the village didn’t move around; it wasn’t located in physically different places at different times. However, because the borders of Poland changed, and the administrative districts in which Pyrzowice changed, it is important to modify the descriptors of the location to reflect the political boundaries at different times in history.<\/p>\n

But how does one find these descriptors? The answer is to consult maps and gazetteers of the appropriate time period.<\/p>\n

A valuable gazetteer of Poland for the late 19th century and early 20th century is the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich<\/em> (The Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and Other Slavonic Countries<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The village of Pyrzowice appears in volume IX on page 328 of that monumental work:<\/p>\n

\"Slownik<\/a><\/p>\n

S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Entry for Pyrzowice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0Chlebowski, Bronis\u0142aw,\u00a0W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, and Filip Sulimierski, eds., S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich<\/em> (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries<\/em>) – Warsaw 1888, Volume IX, page 328.<\/p>\n

Click on the link for a PDF<\/a> copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny<\/em> entry for Pyrzowice. Translated from the Polish, the entry states:<\/p>\n

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Pyrzowice<\/strong>, a village and grange [large manorial farmstead], Powiat [District] b\u0119dzi\u0144ski, O\u017carowice gmina [municipality], S\u0105cz\u00f3w parish; the village has 26 homes, 256 residents, 23 settlements, and 331 m\u00f3rgs [about 1.388 m\u00f3rgs per acre] in the manor; the grange has 4 homes, 1006 m\u00f3rgs (in this 500 m\u00f3rgs of cultivated land). The territory of the manor house belongs to the holdings of the Reverend Hugo Hohenlohe. In 1827, there were 22 homes and 105 residents. According to D\u0142ugosz, in the 15th century the village of Pyrzowice was in the S\u0105cz\u00f3w parish, the property of Stanis\u0142aw Rudzki, the Count of Pilaw. It had 22 fields from which tithes of 6 grosze [pennies] was paid to the Bishop of Krak\u00f3w; out of this, measures of barley and oats were given to the parish priest in S\u017ccz\u00f3w (D\u0142ugosz, Liber Beneficiorum<\/em>, volume II, page 202). In a second place, this historian provides different details, namely that Pyrzowice was the property of Jan Feliks Tarnowski, it had 12 fields from which tithes of 6 grosze from the fields was given to the Bishop of Krak\u00f3w. The value of the tithes amounted to 1 grzywnas [historical silver coins worth several denarii] (Liber Beneficiorum<\/em>, volume III, page 73).
\nBronis\u0142aw Chlebowski<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The words and descriptions in square brackets are my own annotations.<\/p>\n

Jan D\u0142ugosz<\/a>\u00a0was a historian who included historical information about Polish villages in his multivolume work entitled Liber beneficiorum ecclesiae Cracoviensis<\/em> (Book of the Benefices of the Bishopric of Krakow<\/em>). This work is referenced in many places in the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny.<\/em><\/p>\n

The name Bronis\u0142aw Chlebowski at the end of the article is the name of the author of the article on Pyrzowice.<\/p>\n

The name of the country in which the village of Pyrzowice was located at various times in history include:<\/p>\n