Nowodwór (

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village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

Ryki County __NOTOC__ Ryki County ( pl, powiat rycki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed ...

Lublin Voivodeship The Lublin Voivodeship, also known as the Lublin Province (Polish: ''województwo lubelskie'' ), is a voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in southeastern part of the country. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Lublin, Che� ...

, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called Gmina Nowodwór. It lies approximately east of

Ryki Ryki is a town in eastern Poland between Warsaw and Lublin. It has 9,767 inhabitants (as of 2007). Situated in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999). It is the capital of Ryki County. Ryki belongs to Lesser Poland, and historically is part of ''Z ...

and north-west of the regional capital

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. The village has a population of 534.

History

Nowodwór was first established as a town in 1556 on the site of a village called Wyprzędów. During the time of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth it belonged to

Stężyca Land Stężyca Land (Polish: ziemia stężycka) was an administrative unit, the so called ziemia, of both the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The land was composed of only one county, or powiat, and had its seat in the town ...

Sandomierz Voivodeship Sandomierz Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo Sandomierskie, la, Palatinatus Sandomirensis) was a unit of administration and local government in Poland from the 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772–1795. It was part of the Lesser Poland ...

. In 1566 it was a private town belonging to Wojciech Męciński. Tax records show that in 1569 it had two mater mills and its residents included smiths and brewers. In 1612, a parish church was built there. Sometime before 1659, it became the property of the

Jesuit College The Jesuits (Society of Jesus) in the Catholic Church have founded and managed a number of educational institutions, including the notable secondary schools, colleges and universities listed here. Some of these universities are in the United Stat ...

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

. During the

Swedish Deluge The Deluge ( pl, potop szwedzki, lt, švedų tvanas) was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a wider sense it applies to the period between the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 and the Truce ...

it was greatly damaged by the troops of

Bogusław Radziwiłł Bogusław Radziwiłł ( lt, Boguslavas Radvila; 3 May 1620 – 31 December 1669) was a Poles, Polish princely magnate and a member of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish-Lithuanian ''szlachta'', or nobility. He was of the Radziwił ...

. In 1661, it had 27 houses and in 1664 it had 109 inhabitants. In 1791 there were 159 residents. Nowodwór lost its town rights in 1820.Postanowienie Xsięcia Namiestnika Królewskiego Nr 12,155 z dn. 24 października 1820; wg Wykazu Miast w Królstwie Polskiem na wieyskie osady zamienionych od dn. 1 lutego 1820 r., to iest od daty ustanowienia Kommissyi dla Miast; in Akta Komisji Rządowej Spraw Wewnętrznych (KRSW) nr 201, k. 44; Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych w Warszawie By the end of the 19th century it had 26 houses, 262 inhabitants, a water mill, a lumber mill, and a fulling mill.

References

Villages in Ryki County {{Ryki-geo-stub