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Silesia region of Cracow in the period of the Four

Below Map showing the province of Cracow at the end of the eighteenth century. This was an interesting time in the Principality Siewierski under the laws of the Sejm was incorporated to the Crown.

As delivered in 1929, the map is accurate, and the scan of good quality and high resolution so you can see that the town (even smaller ones) included in the composition of the principality, and exactly where it ran boundaries. Interesting is also the same region of Cracow that period - some of the names of the towns sounded a bit different, and the area covered, inter alia, Bedzin, Dabrowa, Slavkov, Olkusz, Jaworzno, Chrzanów and of course the return of territory absorbed Ducatus Severiensis .

map also provides extensive information about the size and importance of cities, villages and hamlets. You can see which of them belonged to królewszczyzny, which were the estates of the nobility, and that church, where there were established castellans, county, location of locks, customs houses, mills, courts, schools and many other facilities and institutions.

On the occasion of the entry, as it already is, unfortunately, not made, it is also worth mentioning what the good news in the past year came from Bedzin. The city wants to carry out the reconstruction of his castle, so that it more resembled the original medieval fortress from the times of Casimir the Great. Currently, only preserved the Upper Castle and fragments of walls. After the reconstruction appear to be acting in the defense once the Lower Castle, three new towers, adding a peripheral wall will be built another wall of the western and southern. The work will also include basement renovations and revitalization będzińskich park on Castle Hill. All this under the supervision of architects and historians who have developed this project based, inter alia of archaeological sites and making every effort to ensure that new buildings as faithfully reflect their historical prototypes. All the work associated with the reconstruction of the castle is completed in 2013, and their cost is about 20 million. The idea is really very good and falls only count that is fully implemented.