{"id":23935,"date":"2025-12-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=23935"},"modified":"2025-12-26T14:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:34:29","slug":"the-polish-village-of-szelkow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/23935","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of Szelk\u00f3w (Szelk\u00f3w Parish)"},"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 three entries for the Polish village of Szelk\u00f3w, two of which apply to the village currently known as Stary Szelk\u00f3w near Mak\u00f3w Mazowiecki. The third entry applies to the village of Shel’viv (\u0428\u0435\u043b\u044c\u0432\u0456\u0432) which is now in the Volyn Oblast of Ukraine and which will not be discussed here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the parish of St. Simon and Jude Thaddeus is seated in Stary Szelkow. According to the parish website<\/a>, the parish includes the villages of Ciepielewo, Kaptury, Laski, \u0141a\u015b, Magnuszew Du\u017cy, Magnuszew Ma\u0142y, Nowy Sielc, Nowy Strachocin, Nowy Szelk\u00f3w, Orzyc, Rostki, Smrock Dw\u00f3r, Smrock Kolonia, Stary Sielc, Stary Strachocin, Stary Szelk\u00f3w, and \u015aw. Rozalia-S\u0142ojki.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Szelk\u00f3w and Surrounding Area \u2013 1910<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary (ELTE Faculty of Informatics,
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics); digital images, Lazarus ELTE<\/em>
(http:\/\/lazarus.elte.hu\/hun\/digkonyv\/topo\/200e\/39-53.jpg<\/a>: accessed 20 December 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Source: Chlebowski, Bronis\u0142aw and W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, 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 Countrie<\/em>s) – Warsaw 1890, Volume XI, page 890.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entries for Szelk\u00f3w<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the first entry reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Szelk\u00f3w<\/strong>, a village and manor estate on the Orzyc River, Mak\u00f3w powiat, Smrock gmina, Szelk\u00f3w parish, is located on the Warsaw-Kowno highway, 72 km from Warsaw. It has a brick parish church and a post office. In 1827, there were 16 houses and 123 inhabitants. In 1867, the Szelk\u00f3w manor estate covered 870 m\u00f3rgs [Gerald Ortell’s book on Polish Parish Records states that in the Russian partition 1 m\u00f3rg = 1.388 acres]: 270 m\u00f3rgs of arable land and gardens, 14 m\u00f3rgs of meadows, 70 m\u00f3rgs of pastures, 240 m\u00f3rgs of forest, 220 m\u00f3rgs of thickets, and 56 m\u00f3rgs of unproductive land. The village of Szelk\u00f3w had 17 settlements and 104 m\u00f3rgs of land. Miko\u0142aj, son of Widon, a canon of P\u0142ock, in 1247 in P\u0142ock, in the presence of Prince Boles\u0142aw and with his permission, granted to the P\u0142ock church for the bishop’s table “the estate which is commonly called Selcovo… with the adjacent villages” (Kod. Maz., 13). The church and parish were established in 1402 by Bishop Jakub of P\u0142ock. The present church was built in 1817. Szelk\u00f3w parish, Mak\u00f3w deanery, 2880 souls. Bronis\u0142aw Chlebowski<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Source: Chlebowski, Bronis\u0142aw, ed., 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 1902, Volume XV Part II, page 641.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated from the Polish, the second entry reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Szelk\u00f3w<\/strong>, Celkovo<\/em> in the year 1247, village, Mak\u00f3w powiat. In the P\u0142ock castle in 1247, Boles\u0142aw I, the Duke of Mazovia, confirmed the grant of the villages of \u017beromino and Szelk\u00f3w by P., the canon of P\u0142ock, to the P\u0142ock church (Ulanow. Documents of Mazovia, 155, 7). In 1582, the village of “Selkow” with its parish church paid taxes on 9 1\/2 \u0142ans (land units), 2 homesteads, and 1 craftsman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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