Buczek is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Łask County __NOTOC__ Łask County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its ad ...

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, in central Poland. It is the seat of the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...

(administrative district) called

Gmina Buczek __NOTOC__ Gmina Buczek is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Łask County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the village of Buczek, which lies approximately south of Łask and south-west of the regional capital Łódź. ...

. It lies approximately south of

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and south-west of the regional capital

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. It is located in the

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History

The oldest mention concerning Buczek dates back to 1354. When, according to the chronicler, Jan Długosz, archbishop of Gniezno bestowed tithe upon a parish in Pabianice from the village of Kociszew located nearby the village of Buczek. There is a record from 1391 about Mikołaj "de Buczek", the rector of the church, and from 1394 - about the towns of Buczkowo and Buczkowicze. In 1412 one of the Łaskis had a lawsuit with Mikołaj, parson from Buczek, over a mill. In 1441 Buczek belonged to Poźdżenice estate. Another mention of Buczek is from 1466- then Jan from Kozuby bequeathed eight grzywnas (not a big sum at that time) to his wife Dorota from Buczek. In one of the later documents from 1483, the Puczeks from Buczek are mentioned. Initially, the village belonged to the Buczkowskis or the Buczeks of the Bogoria coat of arms, later to the Gomulińskis of the Jelita coat of arms from Gomulin. Thanks to the endeavours of the representatives of this family (they performed many state functions in the land of Sieradz till the end of 16th century), king

Sigismund I the Old Sigismund I the Old (, ; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was List of Polish monarchs, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548. Sigismund I was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, the son of Casimir IV of P ...

bestowed municipal rights upon this place. It was a

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, administratively located in the Szadek County in the

Sieradz Voivodeship Sieradz Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975–1998, superseded by Łódź Voivodeship. A Voivodeship is an area administered by a voivode (Governor), and the Sieradz Voivodesh ...

in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. The coat of arms of Buczek comes from the family emblem of the towns' owners - the Buczkowskis (they used Bogoria coat of arms). Buczek's coat of arms represents two arrows, pointing away from each other, on the red background. In the middle, there is a white letter ‘B’ that stands for the first letter in the name of Buczek. Over the letter, there is a yellow crown with a black border and on both sides of the letter, there are two orange ribbons with a black border and two black crossed lines. This coat of arms was officially bestowed upon the place on 20 March 1991 pursuant to the resolution of Buczek District Council. Buczek kept its municipal status till the second half of 17th century. Despite the fact that it is still called a town in 1759, in the 1780s Buczek is clearly referred to as a village. Poradowski 2010, pp. 14-15

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* * {{Gmina Buczek Villages in Łask County