{"id":24100,"date":"2026-01-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=24100"},"modified":"2025-12-28T06:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:09:42","slug":"the-polish-village-of-rostki-szelkow-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/24100","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of Rostki (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 Rostki. Two entries are for villages called Rostki-Kaptury and Rostki-Str\u00f3\u017cne that belong to the parish of Szelk\u00f3w. Today, the village of Rostki-Kaptury is referred to simply as Kaptury, and the village of Rostki-Str\u00f3\u017cne is referred to simply as Rostki.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rostki-Kaptury, Rostki-Str\u00f3\u017cne, 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 Countries<\/em>) – Warsaw 1888, Volume IX, page 796-797.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entries for Rostki-Kaptury and Rostki-Str\u00f3\u017cne<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entries read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     4.) Rostki<\/strong> Kaptury, a village of nobility and peasants, and 5.) Rostki<\/strong> Str\u00f3\u017cne, a village of nobility, Mak\u00f3w powiat, Sielc gmina, Szelk\u00f3w parish, 12 versts [1 verst = 1.07 kilometers] from Mak\u00f3w. In 1827, Rostki Kaptury had 8 houses and 57 inhabitants; Rostki Str\u00f3\u017cne had 12 houses and 70 inhabitants. The Rostki Kaptury estate (letter BE) in 1879 had an area of \u200b\u200b384 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 129 m\u00f3rgs, meadows 38 m\u00f3rgs, pastures 23 m\u00f3rgs, forest 185 m\u00f3rgs, uncultivated land 9 m\u00f3rgs; 8 wooden buildings, unmanaged forest, brickyard, peat deposits. The village of R. Kaptury had 9 settlements, with an area of \u200b\u200b56 m\u00f3rgs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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