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A village in Rzeszow county, that lies over the old river-bed of the Wislok River, on the North from the railway road (of archduke Karol Ludwik) in Strazow, it lies a distance of 12 kilometers to North-East from Rzeszow; the Roman-Catholic parish is in Laka. This small settlement is located down on the fertile plain, on the right bank of the Wislok River. There are 157 houses and 802 inhabitants (377 men, 425 women); 790 Roman-Catholics, and 12 Jewish. The major land is with the Gawin manor which lies on the East border of village and includes 6 houses with 84 inhabitants; 69 Roman-Catholics, and 15 Jewish. There is a small forest on the North (11 morgi) with forester’s lodge. The major land, Lord Potocki`s property, includes 213 morgi of farm land, 61 morgi of meadows, 8 morgi of pasture and 11 of forest; minor land covers 663 morgi of farm land, 97 morgi of meadows, 97 morgi of pasture. There is a communal loan-society with capital stock of 996 zlotys. Palikowka borders with Laka on the West, with Lukowiec on the North , with Strazow and Krzemienica on the South, and with Wola Blizsza and Mala on the East. Families of members being researched in Palikowka. Click on researcher name to send E-mail.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1886. Submitted by Jay M. Orbik and translated by Iwona Dakiniewicz - June 2002.
Panigro dz, in 16th-century documents
Panigrocz, a village in Wagrowiec county, 7 km. southwest of
Kcynia and the same distance northeast of Golancz; there is a parish in
the village, the post office is in Kcynia, the railway station is 18 km.
away in Osiek; there are 45 houses, 563 residents (546 Catholic and 17
Protestant). The major estate (of Maks Bertram) covers 180 hectares, with
net income from the land of 2,148 marks; the presbytery covers 154 hectares,
with a land income of 168 marks. Whether Zbilut, the Kujavian voivode
(circa 1018) came from Panigro dz has not been sufficiently
proved. In 1153 another Zbilut, founding a monastery in Lekno, endowed
it with the village of Panigrodz. His descendants signed their names
as "z Panigrodza" (see Paprocki's Armorial).
In 1233 Wladyslaw Odonicz conferred German law on the village; in 1248
Boguchwal and his brothers claimed rights to Panigro dz.
In 1283 Przemyslaw II conferred the right to free fairs and renewed permission
for its settling on the basis of German law. Panigrodz was the property
of the Lekno (Wagrowiec) monks up to recent times. In Great Poland
legal documents various confirmations of this ownership can be found.
The local church, under the patronage of St. John the Baptist, was a parish
church before 1523. A new church was erected on the site of the
old one in 1765 by Wojciech Kraszewski, the village landlord, but it burned
down in 1808; the present church, made of fired brick, was standing by
1830. Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw. Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Summer 1996. (Nov 1998).
Peplin , 1) also called Pelplin, in documents Marienberg, Mons sanctae Mariae, Neu-Doberan, Novum Dubran, Polplin, Polpnin, Poplin, Samboria, Sambursh, Peplyn, Poelplinum, formerly a village, since 1886 a marketplace in Starogard powiat. [Translator's Note: The official name today is Pelplin], At one time famed for its Cistercian monastery, today it is the seat of the Chelmno bishopric. It lies in a picturesque region on the Wierzyca river, in a valley between hills; it has a station for the eastern railway between Bydgoszcz and Tczew (20 km. away), and a 2nd-class post office. It is connected with Walichnowy on the Wisla river [Vistula] by telephone [sic]. Highways branch out from there to Starogard, to Tczew and the Peplin forestry inspectorate, and to Morzeszczyn. Besides the bishop there is a chapter there consisting of 10 canons. There is a seminary with four courses, which is closed at present; an episcopal secondary school with 12 teachers (10 clergymen and 2 lay) and about 230 pupils; a convent; elementary school; pharmacy, two doctors; sugar-mill; a water-mill belonging to the chapter; and a Polish bookshop and printing establishment, which publish Pielgrzym and a Sunday supplement, Krzyz. In 1868 Peplin had 1,684 Catholics (mainly Poles), 134 Protestants, 9 Jews, 104 houses; in 1879 it had 118 houses, 352 hearths, and 1,904 inhabitants. In 1885 there were 2,117 inhabitants. Included in the village are Polko, the seminary farmstead, and Maciejewo, owned by the chapter; this whole area covers 4,210.16 morgs. The nearest Protestant church is in Rudno. During the 1885-1886 campaign the local sugar-mill processed 422,620 quintals of sugar-beets, which are cultivated on an area of 2,850 Prussian morgs; the net profit came to 100,204 Marks, 82 Pfennigs. The local populace calls the settlement Peplin, or often Paplin, but never Pelplin. Thus Ketrzynski states correctly in Nazwy miejscowe (page 13) that the name Pelplin is German, and Peplin is Polish. It appears in the latter form in all Polish sources from the 16th and 17th centuries; and Bishop Rozdrazewski of Kujawy, who stayed at the monastery in 1583, wrote letters with a letterhead saying Peplinii. In his inspection report from that year we see Peplin (page 54). In any case, in Chojnice powiat and in East Prussia there are localities called Peplin; additionally, in vicinities on the upper Wierzyca and Czarna Woda the surname Peplinski is often encountered. The spelling in the documents is not consistent. In the 13th century it was written as Polplyn and Polplin, in the 14th and 15th centuries Polpelyn and Poelplyn; later German documents often have Poelplin. Borck (Echo sepulchralis, Vol. II, page 370) derives this name from papla, a local term for the poplar. In Pomerania plo means "swamp." The Pomeranians liked to found villages in inaccessible places, especially marshy ones. Peplin is one of the oldest settlements in Pomerania. In Swiecki's Starozytna Polska we read that Matawa near Nowe was formerly called "Pepla" (page 318). This village, in Tyrnawa district, existed before the founding of the monastery and belonged originally to count Waysil or Wojslaw, who had a rich estate in the vicinity of Tczew; from 1273 to 1276 he was governor of Swiecie, then of Tczew, and finally of Gdansk. When Pogodki-to which the Cistercians came from Doberan in Mecklenburg at the summons of Duke Sambor of Pomerania in 1258-turned out to be inopportune, Wojslaw ceded Peplin to Duke Mestwin II of Pomerania, as was customary at the time requesting that he give the village to the monks. This was done, and the duke issued a separate document to this effect in Swiecie on 2 January 1274 (see P. U. B. v. Perlbach, page 211, and Rev. Kujota's Opactwo peplinskie, page 56). But it was not until 1276, on the feast of St. Simon and Jude, 28 October, that the monks moved to their new location, under the leadership of Werner, their third abbot in Pogodki and their first in Peplin. Even after that the generous Mestwin added new donations, and Przemyslaw, Wladyslaw Lokietek, and the Pomeranian nobility followed his example. The monastery acquired other properties by purchase. Before the abolition of clergy-owned property, the following villages and estates belonged to the monastery: a) The Peplin estate in Starogard powiat, to wit, the villages of. Nowacerkiew, Rzezecin, Morzeszczyn, Kulice, Krolowlas, Gentomie, Rozental and Ropuchy. b) the Pogodki estate in Koscierzyna powiat, to wit: Kleszczewo, Jezierze, Waldowo and Waldowko, Wieckowy, Glodowo, Jaroszewy, Kobylow, Junkrowy, Kozmin, Kowalikowo, Czernichowo, and the wastelands of Malarki or Malar, Brzeczek, Ryle and Deka. c) Farming settlements on the Vistula: Spegawy and Dobkowo, Narkowy, Wielkie Slonce, Hoppenbruch or Chmielniki, formerly Gorka. d) Estates or manorial farmsteads in Peplin estate belonging to the monastery: Borkowo, Bielawki, Smolag Klasztorny, Rombarg, Wolsze, Peplin, Wola, Nowydwor; as well as, in the Pogodki estate: Pogodki; Maly Garc, Czatkowy, Speiswinkel, Pomyje, Kaldeling; several properties in the Gdansk area; several mills, to wit, in Peplin, in Krolowlas, in Borkowo and in Pogodki; and finally many lakes, such as: the eastern part of Lake Wdzidzkie, Bobanczyn, Sitno, Sobacz, Slonce, the lake in Getomie, lake Lag, Dubelno, Krag, Rokitowe, and several ponds. Thus the Peplin monastery was a sort of independent principality. The ducal judiciary ceased to operate here from the time of Mestwin's donation; he even relinquished the collection of taxes and tributes in 1274, keeping for himself only labor service, which was limited to building and strengthening defensive citadels. In 1309 began the rule of the Teutonic Knights, which was a time of adversity for the monastery. Under various pretexts they restricted the monks' grants and turned a blind eye to those who looted and attacked the monastery's estates, to the extent that in 1320 Pope John XXII had to come to the monks' defense in response to their complaints. An even greater nuisance to the monastery were Hussite soldiers in 1433. They seized anything of value that they found, and after destroying their reserves they burned down some of the monastery buildings. They stayed there over five weeks. The beautiful monastery church served as their stable (Dlugosz, Book XI, page 504). The monastery was also looted several times during the Thirteen Years' War (1454-1466). Not until the government by Polish kings, beginning in 1466, was peace restored for Peplin and the whole region of Prussia. The monastery's death register mentions Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk among its benefactors, with a contribution of a thousand grzywnas. Aleksander, who was in Gdansk in 1504, confirmed all the monastery's grants and privileges. Zygmunt I did the same. During the first war with Sweden, Peplin again experienced misfortunes... [Omitted: a long section about King Gustav's visit to the monastery in 1626]. During the second war with Sweden (1655-1660) Peplin again suffered greatly. The Swedes came there in 1655, but the monastery bought them off with a ransom of 9,000 zl. They returned the next year on January 3rd and imposed a new charge of 9,000 zl. on the monastery. When the attacks did not cease, the monks fled to Gdansk. At this time news of Stefan Czarniecki's successes was spreading. In October 1656 a Polish unit under Jakub Wejher, and Karol Grudzienski was near Peplin. In 1657 skirmishes broke out near Peplin, which forced the monks to stay on in Gdansk and to pawn almost all the church's furniture for 9,000 zl. to cover expenditures. Despite this, toward the end of 1659 the Swedes gave the Peplin abbot, then staying in Starogard, a demand to pay a "pillage tax" (Brandschoss). When the abbot delayed paying, due to lack of money, they burned the Peplin manorial farmstead. In mid-March the king's son-Adolf went around to Rudno, Lignowy, and Garc, and from there came to Peplin, where he tore from the inhabitants almost all that was left of their property. During this time the monastery suffered more than at any other, for pillagers forced all the doors open and smashed the furnaces. Not until the Treaty of Oliwa did peace return. [Omitted: a long section on the visit of Queen Eleanora in 1675 and of Jan Sobieski in 1677.] In 1772 the whole property of the monastery came under government administration. In 1810, on the 80th [sic] of October, King Friedrich Wilhelm III issued an order to seize monastery properties to pay for the French contribution. Finally the monastery was abolished by a decree dated 14 March 1823. There were at that time 16 monks; formerly there had been about 50. Since the monks first came there from Pogodki, 565 years had passed. By virtue of the bull De salute animarum, dated 16 June 1821, Peplin became the seat of the Chelmno bishopric, and the monastery became the cathedral church. The first Chelmno bishop to have his residence in Peplin was Ignacy Batthy, 1824-1832; the second was Anastazy Sedlag, 18341856; the third Jan Nepomucen Marwicz, 1857-1886; and the fourth Leon Redner. [Omitted: a list of the 42 abbots who ran the monastery from 1276-1814, and an exceedingly detailed description of the church]. The library contains beautiful manuscripts from the 12th and 13th centuries with ornamental initial letters. A great many original copies of charters and grants have also been preserved. Since 1674 a tower with a tin roof has arisen over the library, designed just for the clock. North of the cathedral stands the small parish church, all of brick; it has been in existence since 1417. The Cistercians built it for the use of the faithful of Peplin and the surrounding villages. At first the church depended on the monastery. In the 17th century it was generally administered by the pastors of nearby churches. Later priests stayed there who had been appointed by the monastery as its patron and served as administrators. Today the administrator is always one of the Tum vicars. The bishop is entitled to the patronage. At this church, called Corpus Christi, exists a Confraternity of Guardian Angels and of Sobriety. Belonging to the parish are: Peplin, Maciejewo, Polko, and Wola. In 1867 there were 1,654 souls; in 1885 there were 1,968. The main gateway still exists, and has been remodeled today for the choir director. The monastery brewery was not dismantled until 1842. At the west end of the village stands the new Sisters of Mercy convent, built in 1862 due to the efforts of suffragan Rev. Jeschke. The Chapel of St. Joseph, adjoining the convent, was consecrated in 1870. The image on the left side of the altar was a gift from Queen Augusta. Sources: 1) Opactwo pelplinskie, by Rev. Kujota, Pelplin, 1875. 2) Szkice z ziemi i historii Prus Krolewskich, by Lubinski, Gdansk, 1886. 3) Klasztory zenskie, by Rev. Fankidejski, Peplin, 1883. 4) Z Prus Krolewskich, by St. Tarnowski. 5) Borck, Echo sepulchralis, pages 370-414. 6) Die Bau-und Kunstdenkm¹ler des Kreises Stargard, 1885; an illustrated work with a number of drawings representing the most valuable relics of the church. 2) Peplin, a treasury-owned forestry inspectorate, 2.5 km. west of the village of the same name, situated on a hill over the highway from Tczew to Starogard, in Starogard powiat, served by the post office in Peplin, the Catholic parish there, and the Protestant church in Rudno. The inspectorate consists of the following forestries: Bielawkerweide (German), Borkowo, Brody, Kochankenberg, Sturmberg, and Samlin. The whole area covers 3,203.87 hectares: 113.29 of farmland and gardens, 58.7 of meadows, 2,925.09 of coniferous and foliaceous forests, 101.7 unused, 5.07 of waters; net income from the land comes to 8,225 marks. 3) Peplin, a Chelmno estate, Chojnice county, served by the post office and Catholic parish in Lesno, about 10 km. away, and the Protestant church in Suminy in BytÑw county, with a school in Wyndorp, 3,449.72 mÑrgs of area. In 1868 there were 15 buildings, 5 houses, 59 Catholic inhabitants. Lipinski was the owner in 1856. Peplin lies in the northeastern part of the county, on Lake Peplinskie, and as empty land formerly belonged to the Tuchola starosta's office. In 1693 Wojciech Peplinski complained to the Tuchola leaseholder, Erazm Janowski, that the people of Ledy and Skoszewo were driving cattle into his bypass, although the castle office forbade that so that his fields would not be plowed up. The office allowed him to hunt at Miectok and fish in the river; the meadow by the forest is his (see the Notes of Rev. Kujota in Peplin). - Rev. Fr[ydrychowitcz] Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1886, vol. 7, pp. 944-949] Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Summer 1999 Bulletin.
A church, estate, and estate district in Inowrocław county, about 8 kilometers east of Kruszwica, near the border of the Kingdom of Poland. There is a parish on site; the post office is in Kruszwica, and the railroad station is in Jarosław, 18 kilometers away. There are 10 houses, 133 inhabitants, and an area of 503.24 hectares; net income of 3,900 marks; Swiss cattle are raised there; the owner is Czesław Jaczyński. By around 1383 Piaski belonged already to the Kruszwica chapter; it was looted during the domestic disorders by the followers of Domarat, castellan of Poznań. Circa 1560, the following owned property there: Felix Wolski, 3 łan’s* and 2 zagrodnicy [peasant farmers working garden-sized plots of land]; Wojciech Szuba, 1 łan and 2 zagrodnicy; Wacław Sowa, 1 łan and 2 zagrodnicy; Jędrzej Rychalski and Maciej Strzezik, 1 łan each. The parish at that time was composed of: Bacharcie, Piaski, Piecki Małe and Piecki Wielkie, Skotniki Zabłotne, Tarnówko, and Wola Wapowska. Two flint hatchets were discovered there. The Marcinki manorial farmstead was included in the estate district. The whole district had 11 houses and 145 Catholic inhabitants. *łan – a measurement of the size of a farm, the value of which varied in different times and different places. In this context, one łan was probably a little less than 17 hectares.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1887, Vol. 8, p. 55, #15] Translated by Allen & Marie Grasser, edited by William F. Hoffman.
Now Pilviskiai, Lithuania, a municipal settlement, before
1867 a small town, on the river Szeszupa [Sesupe] by the mouths of the
rivers Pilwa [Pilve] and Wysoka [Visakis], in Maryampol [Marijampole]
county, Pilwiszki gmina and parish. This settlement has a scenic location
on an elevated bank of the river. It is 27 km. from Maryampol and 15
km. from Wylkowyszki [Viikaviskis]. It has a wooden parish church, the
gmina office, an elementary school, a pharmacy, and a railroad station
of the Warsaw St. Petersburg line on the branch running from Kowno [Kaunas]
to Ejtkuny [Chernyshevskoye}, Kaliningrad oblast, Russia], 31 km. from
Wierzbolowo [Virbalis], and 93 km. from Koszedary [Kaisiadorys]. The
settlement has 157 houses and 2,291 inhabitants. In 1827 there were 81
houses there, with 888 inhabitants; in 1862 there were 226 houses with
1,889 inhabitants. Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1887, vol. 8, p. 147]. Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Winter 2004 Rodziny.
Link to translation by William F. Hoffman, for PGST "Polish Footprints" (Nov 1998)
A village and manorial farmstead on a lake in Kolo county,
Piotrkowice gmina*, Wqsosze parish, 30 versts [about 32 km.] from Kolo.
It has a general elementary school, a brickyard, and an oil mill. The
village has 9 houses and 228 inhabitants; the manorial farmstead has
4 houses and 107 inhabitants. Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1887, vol. 8, p. 208]. Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Fall 2003 Rodziny.
Plocicz, in the Kodeks Wielkopolski mentioned as Ploczyce, in 1357 Plocyce, 1597 Pletz, 1673 Plociez, German Ploetzig. a village in Zlotow powiat, served by the postal station and Catholic parish in Kamien, and by the Protestant congregation in Sep—lno; it has its own school. It covers an area of 8,047.81 Magdeburg-measure m—rgs. In 1868 there were 306 buildings, 125 houses, and 842 inhabitants, 673 of them Catholic, 169 Protestant. Plocicz lies on the highway leading from Chojnice to Naklo, about 4 km. south of Kamien. In 1597 a village Stare-Lolowo existed next to Plocicz. A green meadow near a forest separates both from Kamien. In 1859 a jug with silver coins, buckles, and earrings, as well as ingots and sheets of silver, dating from the 10th and 11th centuries, were found in Plocicz (see Der Kreis Flatow by Schmitt, p. 268, and Preuss. Prov., Bl. 1851, XI, p. 318). Plocicz was mentioned in a 1357 charter of King Kazimierz as belonging to the Gniezno archbishops (see Kodeks dyplomatyczny Wielkopolski, III, No. 1354). See also Kamien, Vol. 3, p. 739.- Rev. Frydrychowitcz Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1887, vol. 8, p. 284]. Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Fall 1997Bulletin.
Pniewo, a village and estate on the Narew river, powiat of Lomza, gmina and parish of Puchaly. In 1827 it had 32 houses and 288 inhabitants. In 1884 the manorial farmstead of Pniewo-A, including the villages of Pniewo, Budy Pniewskie, Rybno, and Gac, covered 3,090 morgs, of which farmland and gardens occupied 546, meadows 597, pastureland 121, forests 1,721, water 74, and 31 were unused. There were 4 buildings made of stone and 33 of wood; 7-field crop rotation was in use; the forest was not administered. The village of Pniewo had 28 settlements, with 452 morgs of land; the village Budy Pniewskie had 4 settlements and 39 morgs of land; the village Rybno-A had 9 settlements and 111 morgs of land; the village Gac had 2 settlements with 3 morgs of land.
The manorial farmstead of Pniewo-B had 1,268 morgs: farmland and gardens 225, meadows 245, pastureland 33, forests 136, water 16, and 13 unused. It had 3 stone buildings, 7-field crop rotation, and the forest was unadministered. This manorial farmstead was split off from the estate of Puchaly. [Br. Ch. - ]
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 333] Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Fall 2000.
A settlement in the parish and rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county, located 15 versts from Sejny. One house and 8 residents.
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)
A settlement in the parish and rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny County, locatred 20 versts from Sejny. 2 houses and 24 people. In the past it was part of the estate of Justyanowo. Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 391] Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)
A settlement in the parish and rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county which is located 28 versts from the town of Sejny. There are 3 houses with 17 residents and 16 morgs of land. In the past it was part of the estate of Justyanowo. Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 400] Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)
A village in the parish of Lejpuny, rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county. Located 33 versts from Sejny, the village has 16 houses with 169 residents. In 1827 there were 12 houses and 136 residents. Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 427] Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)
A peasant village the parish and rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county. It is 24 versts from the town of Sejny. There are 19 houses and 215 residents and 845 morgs of land. Once part of the Justyanowo estate. Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 476] Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)
Located 26 versts from the town of Sejny. In 1827, there was one house with 9 people and it may have been part of the parish of Sereje. Now there are 2 houses and 13 people and it is in the parish and rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county. Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 529, item 15] Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)
A settlement in the parish and rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county. It is 35 versts from the town of Sejny. 2 houses, 13 inhabitants. Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 561] Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)
A village in the parish and rural district of Kopciowo. 21 versts from the town of Sejny. There are 7 houses and 75 people, and a land area of 507 morgs In earlier time it was part of the manorial farmstead of Holny Wolmera. Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1887 Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)
Polczyn 1). German Polzin, in a 1717 document Polczyno, a Chelmno village and estate, or a free solectwo in Kaszuby, Wejherowo county, with a post office; served by the Catholic and Evangelical Protestant parishes in Puck, 3.5 km. to the cast, railway station in Wejherowo, 12 kin. southwest, Catholic school in Polczyn. It contains 12 peasant properties and 8 zagrod as, covering an area of 115 wlokas and 28 morgs. In 1869 there were 470 inhabitants (403 Catholic, 67 Evangelical Protestant), 46 houses. The free solectwo by itself is 311.9 hectares, with net profit of 3,216 marks from the land; cattle are raised there. In 1858 it was owned by Hannemann. Polczyn lies on the Gdansk highway, 3.7 km. from the Bay of Puck; it has fertile soil. On March 1, 1378 Walpot von Bessenheim, the Teutonic Knights commander for the region of Gdansk, granted the village of "Poltzin" to Konrad Wysen on terms of Chelmno law*, with 59112wiokas and 4 morgs. Of these 6 belonged to the free solectwo, and the rest paid 1 grzywna and 2 hens each, with 2 days of compulsory labor service. The bishop and pastor were to collect the usual tithes. Around 1400 there were 521/2 settled wlokas, and there was a tavern in the village. The village provided 5 armed men ("Wepner") for military expeditions. In 1656 King Kazimierz gave two serfs in Polczyn to the Puck townsman Tomasz Ranke for the rest of his life, as a reward for his loyal services. In 1657 when Polczyn, as a manorial farmstead, belonged to the castle of Puck, there were sown there 1 last and 24 bushels of rye, 31 bushels of barley, 3 lasts and 16 bushels of oats, and 21/2 bushels of peas. This farmstead produced 15 florins, 10 grosz, 5 achtels of butter, 14 hens, and 660 eggs. In 1650 the livestock inventory was as follows: 10 milk cows (at 13 florins), 13 other cows (at 15 florins), 7 two-year-olds, 3 one-year-olds, 1 stud, 3 swine, 9 hogs, 8 piglets, 8 geese, 15 hens, and 7 heifers (see Prutz, Geschichte des Kreises Neustadt, p. 238). A 1678 inspection report reads as follows:
.In conclusion, we should add that between 1862 and 1865 a decorated urn was recovered here on the village's northwest side, 50 steps to left of the highway leading to the village of ZdradyIt was filled with bones and covered with a flat stone (see Objasn. do mapy archeol. Prus Zach., by Ossowski, p. 91). 2.) PoIczyn, German name Polzin, a knightly estate, in the same place, 250 hectares; property of Simon. Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [Rev.Frydrychowitcz, 1887 Vol. 8, pp. 711-712] Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA August 2000 Rodziny.
Polunce, a peasant village, Lida powiat, in the 4th political district, belonging to the Radun gmina and rural district and treasury-owned estate of Kiwance, one km. from the gmina, 39 inhabitants. Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1887, vol. 8, p. 703]. Translated by Barbara Proko, Boulder, CO and edited by Fred Hoffman. From the PGSA Summer 1998 Bulletin.
Porabka, a village in Limanowa powiat, Roman Catholic parish in Dobra, lies in a hilly region, on the highway from the old Sub-Carpathian railway station in Dobra to Lapanow and Gdow. The elevation of the village is 611 meters; to the west the Snieznica rises to a height of 1,006 meters, to the east the elevation is 650 meters. The village is on the bank of the Lososina. Spruce forests stretch to the west and south. It borders to the south on Dobra, to the north on Stroza Struskiewicze, to the east on Zawadka, and has 443 inhabitants, 438 Roman Catholic and 5 Jewish. On the grounds of the major estate, owned by the Cistercian Fathers' monastery in Szczyrzyc, there are 2 houses, 21 Roman Catholic inhabitants. Of its 936 morgs, the major estate has 164 (i.e., 40 of farmland, 15 of meadows, 15 of pastures and 194 of woods); the minor estates has 872 (i.e., 415 farmland, 113 of meadows, 171 of pastures and 173 of woods). The soil is for oats and rocky. The gmina has a loan society with a capital of 186 Rhenish zl. Dlugosz mentions this village (in Liber beneficiorum, II, 265) as the property of Spytek "de domo Streparum" ["of the house of Strepa"?]; at that time the peasants rendered a tithe to the Bishop of Krak—w, and the pastor in Dobra also collected a tithe from the lan belonging to the nobility (praedium). In 1581 this village was divided into two parts: the property of the Szczyrzyc monastery had 9 peasant half-lan sections and a croft [zagroda] with farmland, and Sebastyan Sikorski's part had 1 peasant's lan and 7 crofts with land (Pawinski, Malopolska, 53). Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1887, vol. 8, pp. 813-814] Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Winter 1999 Bulletin.
Posady, a peasant village on the Radunka, Lida powiat, in the 4th political district, gmina and treasury-owned estate of Kiwance, 2 km. from the gmina, 32 km. from Lida and 40 km. from Wasiliszki [Vasiliski, Belarus], has 9 houses, 92 Catholic inhabitants (42 souls in the year 1864, per the rewizja). Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1887, vol. 8, p. 842]. Translated by Barbara Proko, Boulder, CO and edited by Fred Hoffman. From the PGSA Summer 1998 Bulletin. |
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