Krakow Voivodeship (until 1795)

This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.

Krakow Voivodeship (red) in the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania

The Krakow Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo krakowskie , Latin: Palatinatus Cracoviensis ) was an administrative unit in the Lesser Poland Province as part of the Kingdom of Poland or Poland-Lithuania . It existed from the 14th century to 1795. The seat of the voivode was the city of Krakow . The Sejm MPs met regularly in Proszowice for a General Sejm .

The in 1564 by the union of the Duchy of Auschwitz and the Duchy of Zator resulting circle Silesia was in the Province Krakow incorporated , in 1790, followed by the Duchy of Siewierz .

The voivodeship was one of the richest in Poland. It owes this wealth to the Wieliczka and Bochnia salt mines .

In the second half of the 16th century there were 73 cities. Of these, 40 were owned by the king, 11 owned by the clergy , and 22 privately owned. The largest city with over 5000 inhabitants was Krakow, followed by Biecz , Częstochowa , Nowy Sącz and Żarnowiec with over 2000 inhabitants each. In the 16th century there were also 2504 villages, of which 283 had more than 200 inhabitants each.

The majority of the residents belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. The voivodeship comprised over half of the Krakow diocese . Around the year 1600 there were 483 parishes, 472 of which had their seat in the voivodeship (without considering individual exceptions in the diocese of Krakow). At the turn of the 17th century there were also around 110 Protestant parishes (including 27 in the Silesia region and 25 in the Proszowice region). In the later 15th century, the Carpathian Mountains in the southern part of the voivodeship (Biecz and Nowy Sącz districts) were settled during the Wallachian colonization . At the end of the 16th century there were 28 Orthodox parishes, after the Union of Brest this number rose to one hundred by 1765, but this time Greek Catholic parish churches.

The majority of the Jewish population lived in 14 cities around 1600: Będzin , Bobowa , Bochnia , Dobczyce , Jasło , Kazimierz , Lanckorona , Lelów , Nowy Sącz, Olkusz , Oświęcim , Pilica , Sławków , Uście Solne .

In the course of the first division of Poland in 1772, most of the area without Krakow went to Austria and was integrated into the newly formed crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria . Cracow and the rest of the area (excluding Siewierz ) followed later in the third Polish division.

Circles

Circles around 1600

• Proszowice
• Lelów
• Szczyrzyc
• Książ
• Sącz
• Biecz
• Silesia

literature

• Henryk Rutkowski (editor), Krzysztof Chłapkowski: Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku; Cz. 2, Komentarz, indeksy . Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences , 2008 (Polish, online ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tomasz Jurek (editor): WSTĘP ( pl ) In: Słownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziem Polskich w Średniowieczu. Edycja elektroniczna . PAN . 2010-2016. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
2. ↑ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 81
3. ↑ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, pp. 72–73
4. ↑ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 82
5. ↑ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 50
6. ↑ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 57
7. ↑ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 59
8. ↑ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 75

Web link

• Jacek Laberschek: Detailed map of the Krakow Voivodeship in the late Middle Ages, with the Duchies of Auschwitz, Zator and Siewierz and the Polish pledging of Spiš , PAN