Monuments and history
Churches, palaces, maps and documents — the history of the commune from trade routes to censuses from over a century ago.
The commune is located in the Sandomierz Basin (Dąbrowa District, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, 48.63 km²), between the Vistula and Dunajec Rivers — in a place through which settlement and trade routes, including amber, have run for centuries. At the Jesuit Estuary, the Dunajec flows into the Vistula; religious and manor buildings can be discovered on the heritage map.
Below are materials arranged chronologically — from landscape and prehistory to the People's Republic of Poland. For each exhibit, we indicate the source (UG, Polona, Wikimedia, diocesan studies). The full historical essay is published by the Commune Office — link below.
Places on the map
Churches, manor houses, chapels and other landmarks — explore them on the interactive heritage map.
Go to the heritage mapMaterials in this room
Landscape and prehistory(6)
The retreat of the glacier shaped the Sandomierz Valley; for centuries the Vistula and Dunajec linked trade and settlement routes.
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Prehistory of the Sandomierz Basin
Glacier, Vistula and Dunajec — settlement from the Palaeolithic to Roman influences in the commune.
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The Amber Route and the Vistula-Dunajec
Trade contacts with the Roman world — amber, coins, and river routes.
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Roman denarii found in Gręboszów (1897)
Four coins from the 1st–2nd centuries AD — a trace of trade along the Amber Route in the commune.
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Trade routes and roads in the Old Polish period
The Vistula, the Dunajec and the Tarnów Inn — roads that shaped the settlement in the commune.
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Gościniec Tarnów and transport across the Vistula River
Old Polish roads: the Tarnów inn, the ferry in Hubenice and the route through Gręboszów to Opatowiec.
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Zalipie — a village in the parish of Gręboszów
Zalipie in the composition of the parish and censuses from the nineteenth century — the vicinity of a painted cottage, a different story than the folklore of Zalipie.
Old Polish village(4)
From the first mention of Gręboszów (1287) to the registers of social structure from 1579.
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Old Polish village in 1579
Ownership structure Gręboszowa, Lubiczek and Wola Żelichowska — Wiślanie, Wojnicz, registers 1579.
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Peasants, homesteaders, bailiffs — an old Polish village
The socio-professional division of the village in 1579 — peasants, bailiffs, fields, self-government under German law.
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Noble families — Gręboszowski, Dembiński, Załuski, Potocki
Village owners and founders of churches — from the Middle Ages to the landed estates of Galicia.
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The Northern War in the commune (1702–1709)
Swedish looting during the war between Augustus II and Charles XII — destruction of villages in Powiśle.
Galicia and documents(13)
After the partitions — censuses, the geographical dictionary, maps and Bojko's 1911 monograph as a “photograph” of the commune from a century ago.
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Crumbs from Gremboszów (1911)
Jakub Bojko's monograph — from the Nieczuja family (1287) through the church, school and village mayors to rural everyday life, rituals and the cemetery.
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Commune in Galicia after the partition of 1772
After the first partition of Polish, the area of the commune became part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.
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Land estates in Galicia
The large estates of the Potocki, Kwilecki and Kotarski estates — a list of villages and hectares.
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Siedliszowickie Załuski Archive — maps of the commune Gręboszów
Plans and cadastral maps of the villages of the commune from the National Archives in Cracow — the property of the Załuski and Przerębski families (1680–1901).
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National Tabula and tabular ownership
The mortgage register of 1870 — the basis of the rights of large land ownership in Galicia.
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Censuses of Galicia — 1870 and 1910
The number of inhabitants of the villages (ca. 1870) and census publications of Galicia from 1880 and 1910.
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Census 1870 — table of commune villages
A detailed table of the number of inhabitants of the village according to the Austrian census of about 1870.
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Gręboszów in the Dictionary of Geography (1881)
Encyclopedic entry — parish, school, land in morgas, post office in Siedliszowice, customs belt.
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Folk schools in the commune (1874–1918)
A network of single-class schools in Borusowa, Gręboszów, Ujście Jezuicki, Wola Żelichowska, Zalipie and Żelichów.
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WIG map of the area Gręboszowa (1928)
Fragment of the WIG operational map (1:300,000) from 1928 — Gręboszów, Tarnów and the mouth of the Dunajec River.
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Agricultural Circle in Gręboszów (1890)
The first agricultural circle in the commune — the organization of peasants and the development of agricultural and livestock culture.
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Arrest of General Langiewicz in the Jesuit Mouth (1863)
After the January Uprising, refugees from the Kingdom passed through the customs chamber in the Jesuit Mouth — the dictator of the uprising, General Marian Langiewicz, was arrested here.
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Józef Szabla's Shop (1911)
A mixed grocery shop in Gręboszów — an initiative of agricultural-circle members.
Sacred and manor architecture(18)
Churches in Gręboszów and Żelichów, the palace and chapels in Borusowa, the cemetery with war quarters.
Churches(8)
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Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gręboszów
The Baroque basilica temple from 1650 — Żeleński's stained glass windows, Rieger's organ and the sarcophagus of General Załuski.
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Church of St. Sigismund in Żelichów
A wooden church moved in 1938 from Pleśna, with a late Gothic polyptych.
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Foundation of Franciszek Dembiński — church 1650
Baroque church in Gręboszów founded by the voivode of Kraków — consecrated in 1675.
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Neo-Baroque altars of the church in Gręboszów
Five neo-Baroque altars from the second half of the nineteenth or the beginning of the twentieth century — including the painting of Our Lady of the Snows.
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Sarcophagus of General Józef Count Załuski (1875)
Monument-sarcophagus of the general of the Polish army in the northern nave of the church — made by Ludwik Otowski.
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Stained glass windows by Stanisław Gabriel Żeleński (church Gręboszów)
Stained glass windows in the church made after 1920 in the S. G. Żeleński Stained Glass Factory in Krakow.
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Late Gothic polyptych in the main altar (Żelichów)
A polyptych from the beginning of the 16th century from a Silesian workshop — transferred from Tymowa in Lower Silesia.
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Baroque furnishings of the wooden church in Żelichów
An eighteenth-century pulpit, sculptures, paintings and crucifixes — the rich interior of a wooden temple.
Palace and chapels in Borusowa(6)
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Neo-Renaissance palace in Borusowa
A manor house from the mid-nineteenth century for Adam Potocki — a tower, a gallery of arcades and a park.
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Landscape park at the palace in Borusowa
The park was established in the mid-nineteenth century around the neo-Renaissance Potocki palace — an element of the manor complex.
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Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Borusowa
A chapel from 1860 with a painting of the Virgin Mary — the Bielecki foundation.
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Mass Chapel of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Borusowa
Brick Mass Chapel from 1860 — renovated in 2014; separate from the roadside chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Painting of the Virgin Mary in the Borusowa chapel (19th century)
Baroque-folk painting of the Virgin Mary with the Child from the mid-19th century in the altar of the Bielecki foundation.
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A plaque of the July 1934 flood (Borusowa Chapel)
A plaque of the State Hydrographic Service on the wall of the chapel — a trace of the flood of July 1934.
Cemetery and roadside shrines(4)
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Parish cemetery in Gręboszów
Necropolis from about 1850 — commemorative crosses, the tomb of the Bzowskis and the war quarters.
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Commemorative crosses in the cemetery (ca. 1759)
Two crosses on high pedestals from about 1759 — after conservation with visible reliefs.
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Tomb of the Bzowski family (classicism)
A tomb in the form of a Roman aedicule on two columns — an example of classicist funerary art.
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Roadside statue in Kozłów (1734)
Historic statue with St. Nicholas and St. John of Nepomuk — consecration of the renovated statue in 2014
20th century(8)
Polish Legions, the First World War and the 1944 tragedy in Opatowiec and Ujście Jezuickie.
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Polish Legions in Gręboszów (1914)
The defence of the Vistula section and Józef Piłsudski's headquarters at the rectory in September 1914.
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Deployment of legionnaires in the commune (1914)
Sub-units of the 1. Legion Infantry Regiment in Hubenice, Kozłów, Borusowa and other villages.
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Piłsudski's quarters at the rectory (1914)
Józef Piłsudski was quartered in Gręboszów with Fr. Piotr Halak during Legion fighting in September 1914.
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War plot — fallen legionnaires (1914)
Burial place of legionnaires after fighting in September 1914 on the Vistula–Dunajec line.
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Soldiers from the commune in the Habsburg army (1914–1918)
The inhabitants of the commune also fought in the regiments of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy on the fronts of World War I.
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Monument to Piłsudski on the Vistula River in Opatowiec
Commemoration of the Legions' battles on the Opatowiec–Nowy Korczyn line — 80th anniversary in 1994.
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Composition of the Gręboszów parish before World War I
The number of believers in the parishes in 1914 — over 7300 Catholics.
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War 1944 — Opatowiec, Ujście Jezuickie and victims of the commune
The drama of July 1944 and the balance of losses of the inhabitants of the commune during World War II.
People's Republic of Poland(5)
Administrative reorganisation, post-war schools and the agricultural pensions reform.
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Commune Gręboszów in the years 1944–1989
Assembly national councils, compulsory agricultural supplies and peasant pensions — an abbreviation from the period of the People's Republic of Poland.
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Assembly National Councils 1954–1972
The commune was divided into three GRNs — Borusowa, Gręboszów, Wola Żelichowska — and returned to one commune in 1972.
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Agricultural pensions and pensions (since 1978)
Act of 27 October 1977 — Right to benefits after work on a farm.
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Primary schools after 1945
A network of schools in the same towns as before the war — the development of rural education in the People's Republic of Poland.
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Baptismal font and baptismal font made of black marble
A brick baptismal font and a black marble lawaterz with the Jastrzębiec coat of arms from the second half of the seventeenth century.