{"id":24138,"date":"2026-01-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=24138"},"modified":"2025-12-27T13:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T21:56:57","slug":"the-polish-village-of-szwelice-szwelice-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/24138","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of Szwelice (Szwelice Parish)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\u00a0S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries)<\/em>\u00a0includes one entry for the Polish village of Szwelice currently in Mak\u00f3w Powiat. Szwelice was the local parish and, at the time the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny<\/em> was written, was an ecclesiastical village owned by the local bishop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the map below, the village of Szwelice is indicated by a red box. Villages belonging to the local bishop and part of the parish of Szwelice are indicated by black boxes. Villages owned by the lesser nobility and part of the parish of Szwelice are indicated by blue boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Szwelice 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\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 1892, Volume XII, pages 89-90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

     Szwelice<\/strong> 1.) a village on the Pe\u0142ta River, Mak\u00f3w powiat, Karniewo gmina, Szwelice parish. It has a wooden parish church and covers an area of \u200b\u200b1078 m\u00f3rgs [Gerald Ortell’s book on Polish Parish Records states that in the Russian partition 1 m\u00f3rg = 1.388 acres]. It is inhabited by minor nobility. In 1827, there were 46 houses and 344 inhabitants. The village was historically owned by the bishops of P\u0142ock. It is mentioned (in the Pu\u0142tusk castellany) in a document of Duke Konrad from 1203. Bishop Wojciech Baranowski founded the parish and the church of \u015aw. Wawrzyniec [St. Lawrence] here. The parish includes villages formerly governed by the local bishop: Boby, Czarnostaw, D\u0119biny, Dzier\u017canowo, Do\u015bcijewo, G\u0142odowo, W\u00f3jty, and villages of minor nobility: G\u0142odki, Pomarki Wielkie., Pomaski Sikuty, Pomaski Kownaty, Slasy, Z\u0142otki, and Zelki-D\u0105browe. The parish lands consisted of the former Szwelice jurisdiction; this jurisdiction, comprising 4 w\u0142\u00f3ki [1 w\u0142\u00f3ka = 30 m\u00f3rgs] in each of the 3 fields of the village, as evidenced by the privilege of Prince Ferdinand, Bishop of P\u0142ock, was granted to the parish by a privilege of Hilary Krzysztof Szembek, Bishop of P\u0142ock, dated April 7, 1756; this privilege was confirmed by Bishop Micha\u0142 Poniatowski on May 27, 1778. In 1783, the jurisdiction had 5 tenant farmers, of whom Mateusz Wie\u0144czyk with his wife and daughter, had 2 oxen; Kajetan Lendzian, married, 2 horses; Adam Przychodzie\u0144 with his wife and 3 sons, 2 oxen; each farmer worked 2 days a week for the rectory; Furthermore, there was a certain Mr\u00f3z, a servant at the manor in Czarostaw, and a church sexton with his daughter. Bishop Szembek, on July 3, 1758, granted the church \u00bd w\u0142\u00f3ka of land in exchange for tithes from the Czarostaw manor, but apparently, despite this, tithes from Czarostaw continued to be collected, because on March 19, 1783, Bishop Poniatowski granted the church another \u00bd w\u0142\u00f3ka of land for 9 bushels of tithes from Czarnostaw [now called Czarnost\u00f3w]. The church possessed endowments: 500 Polish zlotys in the village of Chrzanowo (Karniewo parish) from the year 1750, 500 Polish zlotys in \u0141o\u015bcin (Pniewo parish) from 1750, and 400 Polish zlotys from Szygi (Ro\u017can parish) from 1744. In 1819, the rectory housed the parish priest, vicar, organist, 2 hospital attendants, 2 cottagers, and 14 farmers. (10 sowed 2 bushels of barley and \u00bd bushel of winter grain each, including the blacksmith, and 4 sowed 4 bushels of winter grain and 4 bushels of spring grain each). There was an elementary school. In 1819, he village of Szwelice consisted of 2 parts: one was part of the Ro\u017can estate, the other belonged to G\u00f3rki. In the G\u00f3rki part in 1820 there were 2 tenants (a blacksmith, sowing 2 bushels of winter grain and 2 1\/3 bushels of spring grain, paying 62 z\u0142oty and 22 groszy in rent and 8 days of labor; the village headman sowing 4 bushels of spring grain and 4 bushels of winter grain and 111 z\u0142oty and 18 groszy in rent); 10 hired farmers, sowing 4 bushels of winter grain each, and 4 cottagers, working 78 days with a team of horses and 78 days on foot, 16 days of station work and 4 days of threshing, and paying 4 zloty 18 groszy 1\u00bd shillings in rent, a goose, 2 capons, 2 chickens, 20 eggs; 1 cottager, sowing 1\u00bd korzec [bushel] of grain, 52 days on foot and 4 days of threshing, the serfs were sent to Czarnostaw [Czarnostaw is now Czarnostowo] to perform forced labor. In addition, the community paid 67 Polish z\u0142oty in winter tax to the manor and 1\/10 sheaf to the rectory in G\u0105sewo. In total, in the G\u00f3recki part and at the rectory in 1820 there were 173 inhabitants (33 men, 3 women; 27 boys, 25 girls younger than 10 years old; and 12 boys, 10 girls older than 10 years old; 26 farmhands, 7 women); 19 horses, 42 oxen, 45 cows, 30 heifers, 50 pigs. In the Ro\u017ca\u0144ski part in 1805 (at the time of the survey) there were 429 m\u00f3rgs; at that time there was one \u00bd w\u0142\u00f3ka farmer, \u017bmuda, working 156 days with a team of horses, 4 days of threshing and 16 days of station work and paying 20 Polish z\u0142oty in rent for the land, 5 Polish z\u0142oty 5 groszy in winter tax, 2 z\u0142oty 15 groszy in watchman’s fee, 1 korzec of oats, a goose, 2 chickens, 2 capons, 20 eggs and 3 cubits of yarn from the manor’s fiber.In 1806, two new farmers settled on the \u00bd w\u0142\u00f3ka plots: \u0141uniewski and Golba. In 1819, we find three \u00bd w\u0142\u00f3ka settlements, all of which pay the same in kind; only Golba and \u0141uniewski, due to a lack of harnesses, performed serf labor for 104 days on foot, covering 16 stages and 4 threshing sessions; two \u00bd w\u0142\u00f3ka tenants (Ampa\u0142a and Gadomski) worked 104 days of manual labor, 8 stages, 2 threshing sessions, and paid 4 z\u0142oty and 15 groszy in rent, 16 measures of oats, \u00bd goose, a capon, a hen, 10 eggs, and 1 \u00bd cubits of flax from the manor; two gardeners worked 2 days of threshing and 8 stages. Services were rendered to Byszewo, and 10 sheaves were given to the parish priest in G\u0105sewo. In total, the Ro\u017can part of the village had 36 inhabitants (7 men, 7 women; 8 younger children, 6 older children over 10 years old; 2 servants); 3 horses, 4 oxen, 6 cows, 6 pigs, 14 sheep. In 1821, both parts were incorporated into the G\u00f3rki estate. In 1827, the entire village had 344 inhabitants and 46 houses. Parish of Szwelice, Mak\u00f3w deanery, 2197 souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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