{"id":24001,"date":"2026-01-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=24001"},"modified":"2025-12-28T05:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:59:35","slug":"the-polish-village-of-las-szelkow-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/24001","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of Las (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 many entries for Polish villages called Las. The one numbered 13 belongs to the parish of Szelk\u00f3w.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Las 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: Sulmierski, Filip, Bronis\u0142aw Chlebowski, 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 Countries<\/em>) – Warsaw 1884, Volume V, page 81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

     13.) Las<\/strong> al. \u0141az, Laski, a village in Mak\u00f3w powiat, Sielc gmina, Szelkowo [Szelk\u00f3w] parish, situated on the Sikorka stream, along the road from Ro\u017can to Pu\u0142tusk. As a rent-paying village, it was part of the Ro\u017can starostwo and later the Ro\u017can estate. In the 1664 survey of this starostwo, we read: “The village of \u0141az has 27 and a half w\u0142\u00f3ki [1 w\u0142\u00f3ka = 30 m\u00f3rgs; Gerald Ortell’s book on Polish Parish Records states that in the Russian partition 1 m\u00f3rg = 1.388 acres], of which 4 belong to the village headman, and 1 to a privileged tenant; only 5 and a half w\u0142\u00f3ki are sown.  From this, the rent, etc., totals 32 zlotys 27 groszy (?). The manor farm, after improvements, yields 129 zlotys.” In 1820, the privileged tenancy was held by Maciej G\u00f3rka, who paid 72 zlotys in perpetual lease; he did not possess the privileges for the tenancy, as these had been confiscated by the Prussian government and lost; however, the tenancy, it seems, was held by grant from the starost. The rent from a half-w\u0142\u00f3ka in 1820 amounted to 40 zlotys, 2 capons and 15 eggs; cottagers paid 3 zlotys and “three days’ labor” per cottage; the entire village paid one-tenth sheaf to Szwelice. In that year, besides the privileged tenant, there was one tenant with two and a half w\u0142\u00f3ki, 4 with one and a half w\u0142\u00f3ki, and 27 with half a w\u0142\u00f3ka; 7 cottagers and an inn with an entrance. In 1827, there were 12 houses and 85 inhabitants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 many entries for Polish villages called Las. The one numbered 13 belongs to the parish of Szelk\u00f3w. Las and Surrounding Area \u2013 … 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-24001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-6f7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24001","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=24001"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24266,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24001\/revisions\/24266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}