Gielniów is a town in

Przysucha County __NOTOC__ Przysucha County () 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 reforms passed in 19 ...

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, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Gielniów __NOTOC__ Gmina Gielniów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Przysucha County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Gielniów, which lies approximately west of Przysucha and south of Warsaw. The gm ...

. It lies northern part of historic

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, approximately west of

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and south of

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History

Gielniów used to be a town from 1455 until either 1869 or 1870. It received

Magdeburg rights Magdeburg rights (, , ; also called Magdeburg Law) were a set of town privileges first developed by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (936–973) and based on the Flemish Law, which regulated the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages gr ...

due to efforts of a local nobleman Tomasz Mszczuj of Brzezinki. Until the

Partitions of Poland The Partitions of Poland were three partition (politics), partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place between 1772 and 1795, toward the end of the 18th century. They ended the existence of the state, resulting in the eli ...

, Gielniów belonged to

Sandomierz Voivodeship Sandomierz Voivodeship (, ) 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 region and the Lesser Poland Province. Originally Sandomier ...

in the Lesser Poland Province, 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

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, losing its town charter after the failed

January Uprising The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence. It began on 22 January 1863 and continued until the last i ...

. In the mid-19th century, its population was app. 500, and after losing the charter, Gielniów declined.

References

External links

Jewish Community in Gielniów
on Virtual Shtetl * {{Authority control Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship Przysucha County