Wągłczew 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 ...

in the administrative district of

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

, within

Sieradz County __NOTOC__ Sieradz 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 ...

Łódź Voivodeship Łódź Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) of Poland. The province is named after its capital and largest city, Łódź, pronounced . Łódź Voivodeship is bordered by six other voivodeships: Masovian Voivodeship ...

, in central Poland. It lies approximately west of Wróblew, west of

Sieradz Sieradz (,) is a city on the Warta river in central Poland with 40,891 inhabitants (2021). It is the seat of the Sieradz County, situated in the Łódź Voivodeship. Sieradz is a capital of the historical Sieradz Land. Sieradz is one of the olde ...

, and west of the regional capital

Łódź Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...

History

First mentioned in 1358. It was a royal village, when 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 ...

received Wągłczew and Sadokrzyce from the Augustinian Order in exchange for villages in the

Kalisz Region Kalisz Region () is a historical and ethnographical region in central Poland, located mainly in the Greater Poland Lakes Area and South Greater Poland Plain. It forms the eastern part of the historic region of Greater Poland. Kalisz Region encompa ...

. In the nearby forests insurgents under

Edmund Taczanowski Edmund Taczanowski (1822, Wieczyn – 1879, Choryń) was a Polish general, insurrectionist, member of the Taczanowski magnate dynasty (he was grandson of the famous privateer Maksymilian Taczanowski), and Lord of the estate of Choryń in the pro ...

operated during 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 ...

of 1863.

Monuments

According to the "Liber beneficiorum ..."Jan Laski (Gniezno 1880, Vol. I, p. 414) in the 2nd half. XV. There was an ancient wooden church. The current was built in 1622-1626 by a mason Jerzy Hoffman. The church is a building late Renaissance, one-nave with a 4-storey tower, topped with a baroque dome. It has a barrel vault with lunettes on the type of stucco decoration Kalisz-Lublin. Windows on two floors. Marble plaque over the entrance:and

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interior. In the main altar from the 17th century Depicting a Crucifixion. Elaborately carved altar frontal, in the middle of a two-armed cross. Noteworthy is also the

pulpit A pulpit is a raised stand for preachers in a Christian church. The origin of the word is the Latin ''pulpitum'' (platform or staging). The traditional pulpit is raised well above the surrounding floor for audibility and visibility, accesse ...

of the 18th century in the shape of a boat and valuable liturgical equipment of the seventeenth century of approx. 1648. Former convent next to the church, closed in 1865 has been used as a parsonage. According to the register of monuments of the National Heritage Institute on the list of monuments are inscribed objects: * Canons Regular monastery, 1626: *

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, now

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church of St. Clement, Reg. No. 866 of 10.28.1967 * monastery, now the rectory, Reg. No. 867 of 28.10.1967 * The Wągłczewie

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

cemetery with the graves of Karol Mniewski (d. 1870), Hilary Rola-Zakrzewski of Kaliszkowa (d. 1893), and his wife Adela of Wardęski-Załuskowski Godziemba (d. 1901).

References

Villages in Sieradz County {{Sieradz-geo-stub