Stara Wieś is a large village in the administrative district of

Gmina Brzozów __NOTOC__ Gmina Brzozów is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Brzozów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Brzozów, which lies approximately south of the regional capital Rzeszów. ...

, within

Brzozów County __NOTOC__ Brzozów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed ...

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, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of

Brzozów Brzozów ( ''Brezhov''; lat. ''Brozovia'', or ''Prozzow'') is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 7,336 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is situated in Subcarpathian Voivodeship and is the seat of both Brzozów County and the smaller adminis ...

and south of the regional capital

Rzeszów Rzeszów ( , ) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów is the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship and the county seat, seat of Rzeszów C ...

History

The land which Stara Wieś and its immediate neighbour, Brzozów occupy today, in the early 14th century was covered in birch forest, hence the name Brzozów, derived from ''Brzoza'', meaning

birch A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech- oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains 3 ...

tree. On 2 October 1359, King

Casimir III the Great Casimir III the Great (; 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370) reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370. He also later became King of Ruthenia in 1340, retaining the title throughout the Galicia–Volhynia Wars. He was the last Polish king fr ...

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granted Stefan Wojosta, a royal knight, the privilege of establishing a village in a forest named ''Brzozowe''. That name was adopted for Wojosta's settlement. Later related names appeared in documents: Bresen (1384), Brzozowo (1403), Brzozowa (1437). In the late 14th century, another settlement was built above the original village to escape the regular river floods and for better defences. In 1460 this second settlement took on the name of Brzozów while the original settlement became known as ''Stara Wieś'' meaning the "Old Village". The King's original grant consisted of 50

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łan Lan ( Polish: ''łan'' ; German: ''Lahn''; Latin: ''laneus'') is an old unit of field measurement used in Poland. Since the 13th century, its value has varied from one location to another. A ''greater łan'' (also Franconian, King's, Old Poli ...

s (about 3000 acres) distributed as follows—3 lans for the village elder, 2 lans for maintenance of the church, two common lans for grazing - and the remaining 43 lans for settlers with one lan each as set out according to the

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 ...

. A church building was funded as part of the settlement. The first church, dedicated as ''Corpus Christi'', was built between 1359 and 1375. A second church, dedicated as the ''Birth of Our Holy Lady'', was built in 1698 replacing the three century old wooden structure. It contained three altars. In 1730 with the arrival of the

Pauline Fathers The Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit (; abbreviated OSPPE), commonly called the Pauline Fathers, is a monastic order of the Catholic Church founded in Hungary during the 13th century. This name is derived from the hermit Saint Paul of Theb ...

construction commenced on the present brick church, the

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of the ''Assumption of the Most Holy Virgin''. After 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 ...

, Stara Wieś fell to the

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in the

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. There was a convent of the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Conception of Mary while the Pauline Fathers ceded their monastery to the

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in the second half of the 19th century. The Jesuits founded their college and

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in the monastic buildings until its "suspension" in 2016. In the

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, it was located in the Brzozów County in the

Lwów Voivodeship Lwów Voivodeship () was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939). Because of the Nazi invasion of Poland in accordance with the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it became occupied by both the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in Septem ...

of Poland. According to the 1921 census, it had a population of 2,473, 99.6%

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People associated with the village

Józef Bielawski Józef Bielawski (August 12, 1910 – September 19, 1997) was a Polish Arabist and scholar of Islam. A graduate of Jagiellonian University, where he studies law as well as oriental languages, in the years 1948 - 1950 he was the cultural attaché ...

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Jan Beyzym Jan Beyzym, SJ (15 May 1850 – 2 October 1912) was a Polish Catholic priest and a professed member of the Jesuits. He served as an educator in Jesuit boarding schools for a while after his ordination though later left Poland to work alongside le ...

SJ * Adam Kozłowiecki SJ, Cardinal * Włodzimierz Ledóchowski SJ, General of the Society of Jesus *

Adam Chmielowski Albert Chmielowski (20 August 1845 – 25 December 1916) - born ''Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski'' - was a Polish Franciscan tertiary, painter, and disabled veteran of the Uprising of 1863. He was founder of both the Albertine Brothers and Alb ...

Franciscan friar The Franciscans are a group of related organizations in the Catholic Church, founded or inspired by the Italian saint Francis of Assisi. They include three independent religious orders for men (the Order of Friars Minor being the largest contem ...

* Leonia Nastał

References

Populated riverside places in Poland Villages in Brzozów County {{Brzozów-geo-stub