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The village of Siemiechów , population 1,873 (Year: 2003) people, is located in the Małopolskie region in the Carpathian foothills near Tarnów, Zakliczyn, and Tuchów in south-eastern Poland.
View of North-West, Siemiechów, Poland
It is an old and large village area wise (Second oldest village in the commune after Brzozowa, with Gromnik placing third), forming a valley between two low mountain ranges. The precise description of these mountain ranges are the "Pogórze Ciężkowickie-Rożnowskie" (Highlands of Ciężkowice-Rożnów)mountains, which forms a park of the same name. Nature abounds with many deer, fox, and a large variety of rare birds. A diversified mix of trees make up the forests with Birch often numerous, and there is Oak, Pine and much more.
Long ago, the Tatars, on their way to Tuchów (22 kilometers North-East of Siemiechów) during the Tatar invasion of the year 1241, murdered 7 monks ("siedem mnichów") among other people and from this was the origin of the name "Siedmichów", later changed to "Siemiechów". The village was officially established on September 29, 1326 by King Władysław Lokietek "na surowym korzeniu" ("from fresh roots" or "from the ground up") under German law and equally began to form a parish on "dwoma łanami ziemi" ("2 łanow of land). In the village are two parish churches and public school. The first mention of the existence of a parish was in the year 1349. The school was established before the year 1596.
Church of Offering in the Temple and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus
According to historian Jan Długosz (L. B., III, 216), the village of 'Szemychów' had a parish at an early time and belonged to the Abbey of Tyniec (near Kraków) by virtue of privilege of King Kazimierz Wielk in the year 1354, however, Jan Spytek of Melsztyn took away the monastery by force, shortly before the battle of Worskłą in the year 1398, in which he then died "...and fair justice was served for what was taken, that which belonged to somebody else...". Later, in his second reference (II, 276) Długosz quietly mentions that Siemiechów belongs to the Abbey of Tyniec.
In the year 1581, in 'Sziemichow' (Pawinśki, Małopolskie, 118) there was a 'sołtys' (village administrator) belonging to Siemiechów, who counted in the village: 1 wealthy farmer owning 25 'łanow' of land, 10 small farms without fields, 3 bailiffs who own cattle, 8 bailiffs without cattle, 4 craftsmen, and the village administrator who owns 1 1/2 'łana' of land.
Another view of the Church of Offering in the Temple and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus
The village boundries are: to the West is Faściszowa, to the East is Gromnik, to the South is Brzozowa, and to the North along a large beech forest is Łubinka.
Located in the former province of Krakowskie, district Biecki, according to records of the treasury from the year 1770 it was noted that the village of Siemiechów in the province and 3 'folwark' (granges), during that time, was owned by Ignacy Krasiński, and he paid an annual military tax of 1266 złp. / 17 gr., and a winter military tax of 458 złp. / 12 gr. Ignacy, the third son of Jan (castellan of Wizna, near Łomza), and Ewa Trojanowska, brother of Adam (a bishop), and Michał Hieronim (great-grandfather of world famous Polish poet, Count Zygmunt Krasiński). In the year 1769, he received governorship of Siemiechów, in the district of Biecz, from his first wife, Maryanna Krasińska Jordanów (kancl. 40 f. 14). Due to the Office of Assessments court assessors, he resigned in the year 1788 (M. 301 f. 46). He became a bachelor (got divorced) from the order of St. Stanisław which he received in the year 1786. The heir of the Oblas of Radom, he got married for the second time in the year 1774 to Agnieszka Potkańska, castellan of Radom, and had a daughter, Anna, who's first marriage was to Kazimierz Walicki, governor of Sochaczew, and second marriage to Mikołaj of Oplów Bronikowski, general major in the royal military, in which he wrote his life testimony in the year 1795 (DW. 110 f. 1299 i 111 f. 826). Amelia, one daughter of Bronikowski, got married to Count Roman Załuski. During the period of the ruling Austrian government in the year 1772, the adminstration stole the entire estate from Kraśinski and then forced him to buy it back from them in the year 1789 at a very high price.
Church of The Virgin Mary of Candles
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