{"id":23943,"date":"2025-12-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=23943"},"modified":"2025-12-28T05:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:50:22","slug":"the-polish-village-of-ciepielewo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/23943","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of Ciepielewo (Szelk\u00f3w Parish)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>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>&nbsp;includes two entries for the Polish village of Ciepielewo.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MAP-Austrian-Military-Map-39-53-Ciepielewo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MAP-Austrian-Military-Map-39-53-Ciepielewo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MAP-Austrian-Military-Map-39-53-Ciepielewo.jpg 643w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MAP-Austrian-Military-Map-39-53-Ciepielewo-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Ciepielewo and Surrounding Area&nbsp;\u2013 1910<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary (ELTE Faculty of Informatics,<br>Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics); digital images,&nbsp;<em>Lazarus ELTE<\/em><br>(<a href=\"http:\/\/lazarus.elte.hu\/hun\/digkonyv\/topo\/200e\/39-53.jpg\">http:\/\/lazarus.elte.hu\/hun\/digkonyv\/topo\/200e\/39-53.jpg<\/a>: accessed 20 December 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SGK-Ciepielewo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"875\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SGK-Ciepielewo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23945\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6795268497121147;width:418px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SGK-Ciepielewo.jpg 875w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SGK-Ciepielewo-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SGK-Ciepielewo-768x457.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Source: Sulmierski, Filip, Bronis\u0142aw Chlebowski, and W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, eds., S\u0142ownik<br>Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical<br>Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) &#8211; Warsaw 1880,<br>Volume I, Page 689.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the link for a PDF copy of the the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entries for <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SGK-Ciepielewo-R2.pdf\">Ciepielewo<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the first entry reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Ciepielewo<\/strong>, a village on the Orzyc River, Mak\u00f3w powiat, Smrock gmina, Szelk\u00f3w parish. It has a watermill and a brickyard. In 1827, there were 22 houses and 180 inhabitants. The Ciepielewo estate consists of a manor farm and the village of the same name, 70 versts [1 verst = 1.07 kilometers] from \u0141om\u017ca and 4 versts from Mak\u00f3w. Its area is 1158 m\u00f3rgs [Gerald Ortell&#8217;s book on Polish Parish Records states that in the Russian partition 1 m\u00f3rg = 1.388 acres], specifically: arable land and gardens 673 m\u00f3rgs, meadows 84 m\u00f3rgs, pastures 7 m\u00f3rgs, forest 342 m\u00f3rgs, unproductive land and building plots 52 m\u00f3rgs.&nbsp; It uses a 10-field crop rotation system; there are 12 brick buildings and 8 wooden ones. There is also a distillery. The village of Ciepielewo has 38 settlements and 245 m\u00f3rgs of land. <em>A. Pal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SGK-Ciepielewo-15-1-339.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"875\" height=\"126\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SGK-Ciepielewo-15-1-339.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23970\" style=\"aspect-ratio:6.945254292193067;width:409px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SGK-Ciepielewo-15-1-339.jpg 875w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SGK-Ciepielewo-15-1-339-300x43.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SGK-Ciepielewo-15-1-339-768x111.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Translated from the Polish, the second entry reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Ciepielewo<\/strong>, a village in Mak\u00f3w powiat. In 1582 there were 20 peasant farms, 4 smallholdings, 1 craftsman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Copyright \u00a9 2025 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries)&nbsp;includes two entries for the Polish village of Ciepielewo. 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