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In XV and XVI centuries, Szadek, like many other Polish towns, was undergoing a period of intensive growth and prosperity. Many craftsmen, also from abroad, came and settled in Szadek in XV century. The town became an important wool cloth manufacturing centre on the economic map of Poland, surpassed only by Brzeziny in the Sieradz and Łęczyca district and a few other towns. The growth of wool cloth...
This article describes transport accessibility of Szadek - a small town in Łódź voivodeship. To this end, three major aspects were analysed: potential accessibility, functioning of public transport and effectiveness of individual transport. The findings were placed in the context of accessibility analyses for the remaining 43 towns of Łódź voivodeship, which enabled identification of the degree...
Sand hills, dunes and sand sheets are eolian landforms, on which specific sensitive ecosystems develop. They are characteristic feature of many areas situated in central Poland. Sandy areas with dunes are also found in the commune of Szadek. Wind-deposited sand bodies have accumulated on moraine plains, outwashes and floodplain terraces in the valleys of the Pichna and Brodnia rivers. Eolian formations...
This paper presents the results of research conducted on the book Tikun lel Szawuot we-Hoszana raba, which Was printed in 1844 in Warszawa, and today belongs to the collection of the Museum of the History of Zduńska Wola. A stamp inside of the book, stating “Jsydor Szykier, SZADEK”, Was the starting point of the research and of this paper. The authors have attempted to find out how this book, which...
Polish Youth Association in Szadek was set up in 1919 at the initiative of Jan Anglik. It was then reorganized in the early 1920s by Father Edward Dyja and Dean Antoni Orzechowski. Afterwards it was successively run by Father Jan Stanisław Żak, Father Józef Gołębiowski and Father Jan Przybysz. It consisted of two sections: female youth and male youth. The program of activity was defined by decrees...
The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation organized by the Polish resistance Home Army. It was planned for 1 September 1944. The start of the uprising in Warsaw spurred social resistance against the Nazi occupiers – people from various backgrounds joined the fighting. Among them were people born in Szadek and in the surrounding commune. The names identified so far include Janusz Laube,...
The presented list of the local diets (sejmiki) was based on the analysis of three sources, the city court books of Sieradz, the Pawiński Files Teki Pawińskiego and Pstrokoński Files Teki Pstrokońskiego. In the case of the first one I made use of a collection of accounts where lauda, local diets universals, protestations and confederation acts were included. In the case of Teki Pawińskiego and Teki...
The Szadek deanery, which covered an area of approximately 1,680 km2, was the largest within the Archdeaconate of Uniejow. It Was established rather early - at the beginning of the 1611? century. In 1720, there Were 24 parishes and two af?liated churches. Visitation records from 1683-1763 show a decline in the Catholic population of the parishes of this deanery. Only a few of them experienced demographic...
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