Lanckorona
History
As documented by Jan Długosz, the chronicler and diplomat, in his manuscripts, Casimir III the Great had erected the Lanckorona Castle to protect the road to Kraków and its borders with the Duchy of Oświęcim. The castle was already standing at the time of the erection of Saint John the Baptist Roman Catholic Parish Church of Lanckorona in 1336. In its Township Act, King Casimir III the Great gave its inhabitants the right to hold a weekly Thursday town marketplace as well as a concession to import beer into the town. At the time, the dwellers of Lanckorona enjoyed the same rights as the inhabitants of its much larger neighbouring Capital City of Kraków.
Two of the main battles of the Bar Confederation, a league of Polish nobles and gentry formed to defend the liberties of the nobility and the independence of Poland from Russian encroachment, took place on the plains before Lanckorona. On 22 February 1771, the Bar Confederates defended Lanckorona and its castle from the Russian army led by Alexander Suvorov.
In 1602, Mikołaj Zebrzydowski the Voivode of Kraków and Lanckorona commissioned the construction of the Kalwaria Zebrzydowska monastery and the trails of the Passion of Christ in the neighbouring town of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska modeled on the Calvary outside the city walls of Jerusalem.
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Picturesque ruins of Lanckorona Castle constructed in 1336, defended in 1771
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View from Lanckorona toward the battlefield of the Battle of the Bar Confederation
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Parish Church in Lanckorona founded by Casimir III the Great in 1336
References
- ^ "County of Lanckorona". County of Lanckorona. Archived from the original on 29 April 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ County of Lanckorona. "Location Act of 1366". County of Lanckorona. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
- ^ Kubiak, Grażyna. "Time Slows Down in Lanckorona". Małopolska24. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
External links
Media related to Lanckorona at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website of Lanckorona [1]
- Official website of the Region of Małopolska [2]