Pustków

Pustków, also called Pustkowie, along with Meciszów and Wola Pustkowska and the settlements of Rudki, Krownica, Zastawie, and Budy, a village, Ropczyce powiat, Roman Catholic parish in Brzeznica. It lies on a sandy plain, on the right bank of the Wislok [sic, should be Wisloka]. Its grounds stretch between the tributaries of the Wislok[a], the Ocieka on the north and the Wielopolka on the south. The whole area is bisected by the track of the Karl Ludwig railway (Debica-Nadbrzezie) and there is a station in Pustków itself. Settlements [wólki] were constructed on the Ocieka amid the woods that surround the village on the east. Through the village runs the highway from Debica to Mielec. Pustkowska Wola has 39 houses and 188 inhabitants, Pustków 164 houses and 899 inhabitants, Meciszów 87 houses and 476 inhabitants. The total is 200 houses and 1,563 inhabitants, of whom 1,531 are Roman Catholic and 32 Jews. On the grounds of the major estate (owned by Count K. Bobrowski) are 11 houses, 86 inhabitants, of whom 75 are Roman Catholics and 11 Jews. The grounds of the major estate consist of 537 mórgs of farmland, 77 of meadows and gardens, 139 of pastures, and 1,115 of forests; the minor estate has 905 mórgs of farmland, 290 of meadows and gardens, 91 of pastures, and 61 of forests. The soil consists of silt with sand. There is a distillery on the major estate's grounds.

In 1423 there was already a settlement here, for Klemens signed his name as "na Pobiedniu i Pustkowie" [at Pobiednie and Pustków]. (Climaschko, A. G. Z., XI). In 1508 Mikolaj Ligeza of Bobrek inherited it (Pawinski, Malopolska, p. 468), and in 1581 there were 8 peasants on 7 half-lans, 3 crofts [zagroda], 2 tenants with livestock, 2 without, and 2 inns (each with a quarter-lan). Pustków borders to the north on Tuszyma and Bialybór, to the east on Ocieka and Ostrów, and to the south on Parszcyzna and Brzeznica. - Mac.

Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1888, vol. 9, pg. 310]