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The History of Stary Sącz
From the first hunters in the Sącz Basin to a town listed as a Monument of History – eight chapters told as a chronicle, with key facts and sources.
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Introduction
The Land and the Name
Where Sącz lies, where its name comes from and why it is the oldest town of the region.
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Chapter I · until 1257
Prehistory and the Early Middle Ages
Hunters, hillforts on the Dunajec and the castellans of Grobla – before the town was born.
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Chapter II · 1257–1292
The Age of Saint Kinga
A Hungarian princess and lady of the Sącz land: the town charter and the Poor Clares’ convent.
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Chapter III · 1292–1500
The Late Middle Ages
Nowy Sącz takes the lead, but the Antiqua Civitas endures: Magdeburg law, the cult of Kinga, Hungarian trade.
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Chapter IV · 1500–1772
The Early Modern Period
The abbess’s town: guilds, fairs, convent walls, fires, the Swedish Deluge and Kinga’s beatification.
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Chapter V · 1772–1918
The Austrian Partition and Galicia
Dissolution, the great fire of 1795, the railway, the Sokół and the seminary – under the imperial eagle.
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Chapter VI · 1918–1945
The Second Republic and World War II
Reborn Poland, then occupation and the destruction of the town’s Jewish community.
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Chapter VII · 1945 – today
Communist Poland and Today
A protected old town, the early-music festival, Kinga’s canonisation and the Monument of History.
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