Wielowieś, Tarnobrzeg - is a former village in

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, Poland, now part of the city of

Tarnobrzeg Tarnobrzeg is a city in south-eastern Poland (historic Lesser Poland), on the east bank of the river Vistula, with 49,419 inhabitants, as of 31 December 2009. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (Polish: ''Województwo podkarpackie'') since ...

History

The settlement of Wielowies already existed in the early days of the

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, and was a small

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river port. A wooden church was built here, which was destroyed together with the village in a Lithuanian raid in 1376. Wielowies was rebuilt, and a

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was constructed in the middle of the village. The house belonged to the Leliwita noble family, owners of several villages in this part of

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(in the 16th century, the Leliwitas took on the surname Tarnowski). Among others, it hosted King Wladyslaw Jagiello with family. The house was destroyed during the Swedish invasion of Poland (1655 - 1660). In the late 15th century, the Tarnowski family funded their funeral chapel with a late Renaissance wooden altar from the 1580s. First person buried here was the founder of Tarnobrzeg, Stanislaw Tarnowski, who died in 1608. In 1860, first

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came here, and subsequently, a

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was built. The sisters opened one of the first schools for village girls in the region. Districts of Tarnobrzeg {{Tarnobrzeg-geo-stub