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Geograficzny Entry |
Brzyska
Brzyska (with Jedlinka and Kameń), a
village in Jasło county, has 1,785 mórgs of land, including
1,143 of farmland and 433 of forests; 172 houses, 1,186 inhabitants. The
Roman Catholic parish church in the village, belonging to Brzostek
deanery, has 3,694 souls, and existed before 1555. It is not known who
built or consecrated the wooden church, St. Mary Magdalene’s. In the
stone chapel on the cemetery Masses are celebrated; there is a one-class
elementary school, a district loan society, and sizable quarries. Brzyska
lies on the Wisłoka amid fertile hills. On the manorial grounds there
are a beautiful palace and English garden with old trees, established by
the current owner, Stanisław Kotarski. [M. M{arassé}. — Vol. 1,
page 429].
[Updated entry in Vol. 15-1, page 251]:
Brzyska, in
Długosz called Brzysska and Brzyszka, a village in Jasło
county. In the mid-15th century this village, the property of the Tyniec
abbey, had a wooden parish church, St. Mary Magdalene’s. In the village
was a monastery manorial farmstead, a property (2 łans)
belonging to the sołtys [village headman], two inns
(belonging to the monastery and the sołtys), 9 farmsteads, and
peasant łans. A tithe was given to the pastor (Liber
beneficiorum, Vol. II, page 278). All the parish villages—Ujazd, Wróblowa,
Lipnica, Kłodawa, and Dąbrówka—belonged to the Tyniec
monastery.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw [1880, vol. 1, p. 429 & vol. 15-1, p. 251]
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