Czudec
Czudec | ||
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Town | ||
Country Poland | | |
Voivodeship | Subcarpathian | |
County | Strzyżów | |
Gmina | Czudec | |
Population | ||
• Total | 2,900 | |
Website | http://www.czudec.pl/ |
Czudec [ˈt͡ʂudɛt͡s] is a town in Strzyżów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Czudec.[1] It lies in Lesser Poland, approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-east of Strzyżów and 16 km (10 mi) south-west of the regional capital Rzeszów. The village has a rail station on the secondary-importance line from Rzeszów to Jasło.
The history of Czudec dates back to the year 1185, when Mikołaj Bogoria from the town of Bogoria near Sandomierz granted a number of Lesser Poland’s villages to the newly established Koprzywnica Cistercian abbey. Among those villages was Czudec. In 1263 in Tarnów, Lesser Poland's prince Bolesław V the Chaste met with Daniel of Galicia, to establish a border between the two states. According to their agreement, Czudec was to remain within Lesser Poland, while nearby Rzeszów belonged to Red Ruthenia.
On September 11, 1427, King
Points of interest:
- Baroque Holy Trinity parish church (1721–1735), built from stone of the ruined Czudec Castle,
- St. Martin roadside chapel (1692),
- a 17th-century manor house called Lamus, together with a park,
- wooden houses in the market square,
- ruins of the medieval Czudec Castle. The ruins are located on a hill called Góra Zamkowa, at the George II Rakoczi. The image of the castle was presented on the official seal of Czudec, in the period when it was a town (1427–1935). It also makes current coat of arms of the village.