Rzochów is a historic old town, now a suburb of

Mielec Mielec () is the largest city and County seat, seat of Mielec County. Mielec is located in south-eastern Poland (Lesser Poland), in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (Województwo Podkarpackie). The population of Mielec in December 2021 was 59,509. ...

, a city in the

Subcarpathian Voivodeship Subcarpathian Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in the southeastern corner of Poland. Its administrative capital and largest city is Rzeszów. Along with the Marshal, it is governed by the Subcarpathian Regional As ...

(Województwo Podkarpackie) (since 1999). Mielec is a capital city of

Mielec County __NOTOC__ Mielec County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland. Its administrative seat and largest town is Mielec, which lies north-west of the regional capital ...

History

Rzochów was established between 1379 and 1382. At the beginning of the 15th century it was given city rights by king

Władysław II Jagiełło Jogaila (; 1 June 1434), later Władysław II Jagiełło (),Other names include (; ) (see also Names and titles of Władysław II Jagiełło) was Grand Duke of Lithuania beginning in 1377 and starting in 1386, becoming King of Poland as well. ...

.''Kłos, Stanisław. "Wojewodztwo Rzeszowskie Przewodnik″, page 178 Sport i Turystyka, 1969.'' From about this time the town became known as a regional

shoemaking Shoemaking is the process of making footwear. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or '' cordwainers'' (sometimes misidentified as cobblers, who repair shoes rather than make them). In the 18th cen ...

centre. In the 19th century it was recorded that there were over 120 shoemakers, cordwainers and cobblers. The rail link between Dębicą and

Sandomierz Sandomierz (pronounced: ; , ) is a historic town in south-eastern Poland with 23,863 inhabitants (), situated on the Vistula River near its confluence with the San, in the Sandomierz Basin. It has been part of Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (Holy ...

was completed in 1887. In 1985 Rzochów was incorporated into

. Its population was at the time about 910 people

Notable people

* Jan Feliks Tarnowski * Father Józef Smaczniak – 1895–1942

References

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Notes

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