Odechów is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Skaryszew
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Gmina Skaryszew is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Radom County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Skaryszew, which lies approximately south-east of Radom and south of Warsaw.
The ...
, within
Radom County,
Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
It lies in northern
Lesser Poland, approximately east of
Skaryszew, south-east of
Radom, and south of
Warsaw. The village has a population of 490, and was officially a town from 1573 until the late 17th century.
Odechów is one of the oldest villages of Lesser Poland's Land of Radom. It was first mentioned in documents from 1228, and received
Magdeburg rights as Nowy Targ (later Miasteczko Odechowskie) in 1578. Its name probably comes from the fact that in the
Kingdom of Poland, it was located along the oxen trail from
Rus’ to
Silesia and
Greater Poland
Greater Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (; german: Großpolen, sv, Storpolen, la, Polonia Maior), is a Polish historical regions, historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief and largest city is Poznań followed ...
. Merchants with their cattle would stop here to rest (''dla odechu''). Odechów remained a very small town, located too close to the ancient urban center of
Skaryszew. Finally, it was stripped of its charter some time in the second half of the 17th century.
Odechów is famous for its ancient church, which was first built as a wooden complex by
Mikolaj Traba between 1404 and 1411. Between 1459 and 1460,
Jan Długosz built a new, brick church, which was greatly expanded between 1911 and 1913, following a design of Zygmunt Slominski, an architect from
Radom.
References
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Villages in Radom County