8th Annual Czesław Miłosz Festival — THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2019 – SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2019

Ooooh Stanczyk adores Miłosz! Has it been 15 years since Czeslaw Milosz passed?

Born: 30 June1911; Szetejnie, Kovno

Died: 14 August 2004 (age 93);  Kraków, Poland

So mark your calendars:

THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2019 – SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2019

Krakow again becomes the center of new & exciting contemporary poetry.

Where:

Stary National Theatre, ul. Jagiellońska 1, Krakow, Poland 🇵🇱

Read More:

http://karnet.krakow.pl/en/31842-krakow-milosz-festival-2019

The Historical Description of Churches … in Stopnica — #IndexOfParishes

Yesterday, Stanczyk wrote about the historical book:

A Historical Description of Churches, … in Stopnica

Web Link (URL): http://sbc.wbp.kielce.pl/dlibra/publication/7191/edition/7053/content?ref=desc

Today, I wanted to mention that Biechow & Pacanow have now been done. The following image (Index page) however, shows the other parishes covered. Perhaps one of these are yours? Then click on the link above and read the book about your parish. It will give you some background on your ancestral parish.

Note, the page numbers at the right of the image are about 15 pages less than the image numbers, so add at least 15 to get closer to your parish without a lot of NEXT-NEXT-NEXT sequential scanning.

You will notice, that a lot of these parishes have been a part of this blog’s articles. Post your parish’s pastors or send me an email!

Pacanow Pastors (Plebani) — #Genealogy #Church #Polish

Stanczyk wrote about Biechów’s Historical Pastors. That was from a book:

A Historical Description of Churches, … in Stopnica

Web Link (URL): http://sbc.wbp.kielce.pl/dlibra/publication/7191/edition/7053/content?ref=desc

 

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	It occurred to this jester that I needed to do the same for Pacanów (adjoining parish) which was my grandfather’s birth parish. It is especially true since vital records (Birth / Marriage / Death) recorded in the parish only go back to 1875 and that is also true in the Polish Archive (AP Kielce) and sadly also true in Diocessan (Church) Archive (AD Kielce). So sad that backup copies of the church records were not sent to the Diocese (like Biechów).    In some cases they overlapped. In other cases we see gaps. So information may be incomplete.   Pastors / Plebani, Deacons, etc. 1326 Rudolf ? 1440 Jakob Wislicki 1550 Stanislaw Bzowski 1552 Bartolomej Gantkowski 1599 Wojciech Krakowiec 1610 Tomasz Bucki 1630 Wojciech Kruzel 1632 Walerjan Wilczogorski 1650 ? Rucki (vel Rudzki), Jacek Mokrski 1675 Jozef Zebrzydowski 1712 Kazimierz Siecinski, Piotr Tarlo 1728 Albert Pruszak Bieniewski (died/zm. 1731) 1729 Tomasz ? 1731 Antoni de Klezczany Kleczynski, Andrzej Zaluski 1743 Seweryn Michal Biedrzycki 1759 Walenty Olseinski 1762 Franciszek Pacowski, Marcin Rozwadowski, Jakob Wadas, Jozef Raczowski 1765 Tomasz Nowakowski 1769 Albert Wojna 1772 FIRST PARTITION of POLAND 1778 Stefan Komorowski 1779 Karol Stobiecki 1780 Jan Kanty Soltyk 1783 Stanislaw Nawrocki 1787-1817 Michal Soltyk 1788 Jozef Kedzierski 1793 SECOND PARTITION of POLAND 1795 THIRD PARTITION of POLAND 1795 Prussian Soldiers who died in Pacanow: 17-April Jozef Habro ze Malkowic in Slaskie age 40, 26-April Andrzej Was ze Golsmide in Slaskie, age 34,  02-May Marquentis Franz Eufricht, ze Slaskie, age 27  02-May Jakob Welsch ze Lotaryngii, age 21, 02-May Daniel Warkus ze Slaskie, age 32, 16-May Krystjan Seiffert ze Slaskie,  All (above) were Catholics buried in cemetery. 16-May Gotlieb Kabs lutheran, ze Ramesin in Wroclaw. age 23 28-May Krzycz ze Giedsorfu in Slaskie, age 36,             Gotlieb Kamter., age 26, evangelical, 01-June Gottfried Klinnert, ze Derenfort in Slaskie, 29 evangelical              Fridrych  Urlvich, ze Steintrendorf, age 21 evangelical 21-May Frido Hejbel de Mattien, evangelical   1807-1815 NAPOLEON DUCHY of WARSAW 1815-1915 CONGRESS POLAND, Polish Kingdom, Russian-Poland Partition 1817-1837 Jakob Eljasz Gogulski 1837-1864 Benedykt Nowakowski 1874-1908 Wawrzeniec Nowakowski 1908 Adam Jozef Badowski, Franciszek Rajski 1918 2nd Republic of Poland (aka Interwar Poland) 1923 Pawel Rotter – a very much accomplished Pacanow  (and surrounding areas) administrator. I think we have a hint (by red arrow in picture). In Pacanow, he built 5 altars; 4 of those altars burned. So this hint, may explain why no church records exist prior to 1875. Why 1875-1918 church records (and presumably so on) were saved is not known.

 

Pacanów Deaconate … A History

Pacanow Deanery — Church Censuses

 

By 1326 the Pacanów deaconate (aka deanery), consisted of 13 parishes:

Beszów, Biechów, Kargów, Koniemłoty, Kotuszów, Książnice, Oleśnica, Pacanów, Staszów, Stopnica, Szydłów, Tuczępa, and Zborówek.

During 1326-1470 two more parishes were established: Kurozwęki and Strzelce.

In the later days, up to the 20th century, no new parishes were created and in fact, the Strzelce parish disappeared in the second half of the 16th century.

In the 20th century, two new parishes were created: Szczebrzusz (1925),  Rytwiany (1936). Please note these two as they happened in the last 100 years and they will be listed in the archives.

In the second half of the 15th century, out of 15 parish churches, 5 were wooden: in Biechów, Książnice, Strzelce, Tuczępy, and Zborówko;     8 brick: in Beszowa, Kargów, Kurozwęki, Oleśnica, Pacanów, Staszów, Stopnica, and Szydłów; in relation to two building materials we know only from the second half of the sixteenth century; in one case it is a wooden church – in Kotuszów, in the second one – in Koniemłoty.

 

In the 18th century, out of 14 parish churches, the number of wooden churches amounted to 3, bricked churches 11. The change from a wooden church to a brick one took place in Kotuszów (in 1635-1661) and in Tuczępy (in 1674).

 

The sixteenth century sources recorded only 4 hospitals; in the seventeenth century 10 hospitals and in the eighteenth century 14 hospitals. In the parish of Kotuszów in 1748 there was no hospital, however, the table from the same year recorded the existence of 2 poor {houses?]. Hospital chapels are in Pacanów, Staszów and Szydłów from the end of the 16th century.

In the sixteenth to eighteenth century, in the Pacanów deanery, there were 26 chapels or private oratorios (excluding hospital chapels) in 10 parishes. In the sixteenth century there are 6 chapels, in the seventeenth century 12 chapels, and  in the eighteenth century 18 chapels. Of these chapels, 6 are from the 16th to the 18th century: in Kurozwęki, Pacanów, Rytwiany (Staszów parish), Szklanowie (Stopnica parish) and 2 in Szydłów; two are available from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries: in Łubnica (Beszów parish) and in Szczebrzusz (parish Zborówek); ten occur only in the 18th century: in Wolica (Beszów parish), Grzybów (parish Koniemłoty), Kurozwęki, Borzymów (Oleśnica parish), in Bydłowa (Oleśnica parish), in Staszów and Czyżów {parish. Tuczępy), Strzelce (Oleśnica parish).

The Polish word ‘cech’ means guild (a kind of professional union). The other word of interest is ‘Bractwo’ meaning brotherhood (but church society might be a better understanding).

As it can be seen from the image on the left, in the sixteenth century, we find the existence of 5 brotherhoods and 5 guilds, in the seventeenth century – 9 brotherhoods and three guilds, in the eighteenth century – 15 brotherhoods and one guild.

 

Keep these in mind as you search through fonds in the National Archives in Kielce or Sandomierz. For example, this jester’s  great grandfather, Tomasz Leszczynski was a shoemaker, so the ‘cech szewcow‘ might be a focus for me.

At some point the deanery shifts to Stopnica. I assume that happened as Pacanow’s fortunes declined and its importance lessened after many Tatar raids and wars (before the partitions).

I wonder why almost all of the guilds are “associated” with the Szydlow parish? Anybody know? Write this jester or post a comment.

 

Next: The Plebani (Pastors) of Pacanów parish