Gielniów is a
village in
Przysucha County
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Przysucha County ( pl, powiat przysuski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government ...
,
Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the
gmina
The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...
(administrative district) called
Gmina Gielniów.
It lies northern part of historic
Lesser Poland, approximately west of
Przysucha and south of
Warsaw.
History
Gielniów used to be a town from 1455 until either 1869 or 1870. It received
Magdeburg rights due to efforts of a local nobleman Tomasz Mszczuj of Brzezinki. Until the
Partitions of Poland
The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 12 ...
, Gielniów belonged to Lesser Poland's
Sandomierz Voivodeship, but it remained a very small town, whose population was app. 100 (as for the mid-17th century). In 1815-1915, Gielniów was part of Russian-controlled
Congress Poland
Congress Poland, Congress Kingdom of Poland, or Russian Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It w ...
, losing its town charter after the failed
January Uprising
The January Uprising ( pl, powstanie styczniowe; lt, 1863 metų sukilimas; ua, Січневе повстання; russian: Польское восстание; ) was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at ...
. In the mid-19th century, its population was app. 500, and after losing the charter, Gielniów declined.
References
External links
Jewish Community in Gielniówon Virtual Shtetl
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Villages in Przysucha County
Lesser Poland
Radom Governorate
Łódź Voivodeship (1919–1939)