Translated Slownik Geograficzny Entries - FRYSZTAK
FRYSZTAK: with Glinik Dolny, Pulanki, and Twierdza,
a town in Jaslo county, located at 49 degrees 10’ N and 39 degrees, 4’
East from Ferro [*by modern reckoning 49 degrees 50’, 21 degrees 37’], 19 km.
From Krosno, with an area of 1,558 morgs; 134 houses, 590 male inhabitants and 607
female, for a total of 1,197, of whom 416 are Roman Catholic and 779 Jewish.
It is the site of the county court, a notary’s office, a military police post, post office, deanery office covering 6 parish, and a parish office. The most ancient trace of this parish is to be found in the work "Liber retaxationis dioecese Cracoviensis de anno 1527" [Krakow Diocese retaxation Register for the year 1527]. The church is wooden, its date of construction unknown; it is dedicated to the Birth of The Blessed Virgin.
There is a 2-grade public school with three teachers, a match factory, production of grease and turpentine, a fair every other Thursday and particularly lively in spring, when many working horses and cattle are sold at it.
Frysztak lies on a hillock, at the feet of which the Wisloka flows by, and is on
the county road from Rezeszow to Krosno. A second highway leads from
Frysztak through Lubla and Sieklowka to Warzyce, where it joins the
government highway leading to Jaslo. According to tradition Frysztak was founded
as a German colony by King Kazimierz the Great and was originally named Frysztak (German
Freistadi [‘free city’].)
Source: Slownik Geograficzny translated by Michael Kurtin (This information was published between 1880 and 1902 and gives a view of this locality during that time frame). Photographs by James A. Derheim, European Focus Photography.