Chrzanow County - Chrzanow, Trzebinia, Alwernia, Gmina Alwernia, Gmina Trzebinia, Gmina Chrzanow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Gmina Babice (Paperback)

Chapters: Chrzanow, Trzebinia, Alwernia, Gmina Alwernia, Gmina Trzebinia, Gmina Chrzanow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Gmina Babice, Gmina Libi . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Chrzanow - It is impossible to establish reliable date of the foundation of the town. On the site of the town a stronghold existed. Later it was raised to the rank of a castellany. The earliest documents which corroborate the existence of Chrzanow castellany come from the late 12th century when in around 1178 Chrzanow castellany was annexed to Silesia by order of Duke Casimir II the Just. In the second half of the 13th century, however, it was reunited with the Duchy of Krakow. In 1241 the wooden stronghold of Chrzanow was put to the torch by Mongol hordes invading Poland from the east. The town of Chrzanow was built according to the Magdeburg Law in the mid-14th century under the reign of King Casimir III the Great, however, nothing proves that it was surrounded by defence walls. It is believed that Chrzanow was an open town. The local church was mentioned for the first time in documents in the tax-register of Peter's Pence, 1325-1328. Since the time of its construction in the 14th century until 1640 the town was the property of the Ligza family of the Pokozic coat of arms. In mid-15th century Chrzanow had c. 430 residents and in the 17th c. some 650. At least from the early 15th c. a parish school existed by Chrzanow's Church of St Nicholas. In the 16th cetury King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland bestowed a new privilege on the town, allowing for 4 extra fairs. Various guilds were active in the town: weavers', tailors', shoemakers', smiths', butchers' and others. Ancient Chrzanow's speciality was trading cattle, as here was a customs house for exports of cattle to Silesia a...http: //booksllc.net/?id=387093