{"id":23958,"date":"2025-12-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=23958"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:55:52","slug":"the-polish-village-of-strachocin-strachocino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/23958","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of Strachocin\/Strachocino (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 an entry for the Polish village of Strachocino (now known as the two two villages Stary Strachocin and Nowy Strachocin).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Strachocin 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 (Geographical Dictionary of the
Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries<\/em>) – Warsaw 1890, Volume XI, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

     Strachocino<\/strong>, a village of nobles and peasants on the Orzyc River, Mak\u00f3w powiat, Smrock gmina, Szelk\u00f3w parish, 12 versts [1 verst = 1.07 kilometers] from Mak\u00f3w. In 1827, it had 22 houses and 185 inhabitants. In 1874, the Strachocino estate covered 1278 m\u00f3rgs [Gerald Ortell’s book on Polish Parish Records states that in the Russian partition 1 m\u00f3rg = 1.388 acres]: arable land and gardens 616 m\u00f3rgs, meadows 163 m\u00f3rgs, pastures 58 m\u00f3rgs, water 25 m\u00f3rgs, forest 375 m\u00f3rgs, unused land 41 m\u00f3rgs; 23 wooden buildings, managed forest. The village of Strachocino had 25 inhabitants and 186 m\u00f3rgs of land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2025 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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) includes an entry for the Polish village of Strachocino (now known as the two two villages Stary Strachocin and Nowy Strachocin). … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-6eq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23958"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24295,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23958\/revisions\/24295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}