{"id":23720,"date":"2025-11-28T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=23720"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:43:55","slug":"the-polish-village-of-dubiecko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/23720","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of Dubiecko"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries)<\/em> includes two entries for the village of Dubiecko, the first is in Volume II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ritter, Karl. 1855. \u201cAdministrativ-Karte von Den K\u00f6nigreichen Galizien und Lodomerien.\u201d Wien: Verlag und Eigenthum von Artaria & Co.; digital images, Polona<\/em> (https:\/\/polona.pl\/item-view\/9341ec1b-5a4b-44a5-9f6b-a22c716faf46?page=36<\/a>: accessed 30 November 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source:  Sulimierski, Filip, Bronis\u0142aw Chlebowski, and W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, eds., S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1885, Volume II, pages 187-188.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the first S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for Dubiecko Vol. II<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dubiecko<\/strong> (with Czerwonka), a town, Przemy\u015bl County, lies on the left bank of the San, at 49\u00b050′ north latitude, 40\u00b04′ east longitude, on the government highway running from Przemy\u015bl to Dukla, 3.5 miles from Przemy\u015bl, on the very border of the administrative counties of Przemy\u015bl and Brzoz\u00f3w. 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 Dyn\u00f3w deanery of the Przemy\u015bl 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 Wie\u015b now stands, was relocated by Piotr Kmita, voivode of Sandomierz, to its present location, and King W\u0142adys\u0142aw Jagie\u0142\u0142o, 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 Przemy\u015bl), Miko\u0142aj, parish priest of Dubiecko, is also mentioned among other witnesses. The heirs of the aforementioned Piotr Kmita enlarged the foundation, namely Miko\u0142aj Kmita, castellan of Przemy\u015bl 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, Dobies\u0142aw, 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, Stanis\u0142aw Mateusz Stadnicki, then owner of Dubiecko, having abandoned the Catholic faith, sent Albert of I\u0142\u017ca, an apostate, from his Nied\u017awied\u017a estate in the Krak\u00f3w 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 Przemy\u015bl chapter of 1562 resolved that the Dubiecko school, suspected of heresy by the board of the Przemy\u015bl 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 Stanis\u0142aw, cleared Dubiecko of heretical unrest and restored the Catholic cause to its former state. The former parish church, dedicated to Saints Miko\u0142aj, Stanis\u0142aw, 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 Micha\u0142 Witos\u0142awski, a Przemy\u015bl canon and Dubiecko parish priest, funded by contributions from the faithful. It was consecrated in 1755 by Wac\u0142aw Sierakowski, Bishop of Przemy\u015bl, 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, n\u00e9e Starzechowska, widow of Jan, castellan of Che\u0142m, 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 S\u0142onne, Przedmie\u015bcie, and Ruska Wie\u015b. 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: Przedmie\u015bcie, Nienadowa, Hucisko, \u015aliwnica, 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, \u0141uka Tele\u015bnicki was priest in Dubiecko under the inheritance of Stanis\u0142aw Krasicki, castellan of Przemy\u015bl. 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 Tele\u015bnicki, a local priest, bought the Dubiecko popostwo [a popostwo was a Ruthenian parish district] for himself and his descendants for 354 Polish z\u0142oty. 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 Bach\u00f3rz 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 Tele\u015bnicki, 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 Przemy\u015bl, at the episcopal residence in Straszewice on March 22, 1775. Since 1588, when Stanislaw Krasicki of Siecin, steward of Anna Jagiellon, the Przemy\u015bl castellan, acquired Dubiecko (with Sliwnica, Przedmie\u015bcie, Drohobyczka, Po\u0142ch\u00f3w, Rybno, Podbukowina, S\u0142onne Wola Jawornicka, Ruska Wie\u015b, and Przysada), thus since the 16th century these estates have belonged to the Krasickis; only Dubiecko Castle and \u015aliwnica belong to Count Stanis\u0142aw 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 \u017babczyc published a poem in Krakow lamenting the fire. B[ronis\u0142aw] R[ozwadowski]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second entry for Dubiecko in the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries)<\/em> is in Volume XV (Part 1).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Source:  Chlebowski, Bronis\u0142aw, J\u00f3zef Krzywicki, Filip Sulimierski, and W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, eds., S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1900, Volume II, page 445.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the second S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for Dubiecko Vol. XV<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dubiecko,<\/strong> city, Przemy\u015bl powiat. In 1508 Barbara Kmita, the wife of the castellan of Przemy\u015bl, 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 Przedmie\u015bcie and Dubiecko-Ruskie (today Ruska Wie\u015b).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Wikipedia, the Parish of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary<\/a> in Dubiecko currently serves the villages of Dubiecko, Nienadowa Dolna, Przedmie\u015bcie Dubieckie, S\u0142onne, \u015aliwnica, Wybrze\u017ce, and Winne-Podbukowina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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