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PARTITIONED POLAND

1795

Following the Third Partition of Poland, Warka is ruled by Prussia.

Partitions of Poland, map, late 18th century

1797

November Uprising hero Piotr Wysocki (d. 1875) is born in Winiary near Warka.

1807

Warka becomes part of the Duchy of Warsaw, which concludes the Prussian reign.

1809

The Duchy of Warsaw army fights Austrian armed forces at Warka.

1810

Warka has 1,087 residents.

1815

Warka becomes part of the Kingdom of Poland, also known as Congress Poland, a state linked by personal union to the Russian Empire.

1823 – 1830

Two artillery units called ‘the rocketeers’ (rakietnicy) are stationed in Warka, which positively influences the Town’s economic and demographic development.

Racketeers, by W. Krawczyk, mid-20th century

1826

Warka has 2,557 residents and 156 houses.

1845

Wincenty Hipolit Gawarecki publishes the “Description of the town of Warka, located on the Pilica River.”

1850

Władysław Matlakowski, photo, late 19th century

Władysław Matlakowski (d. 1895)–surgeon, ethnographer, writer, and translator of the works of Shakespeare–is born in Warka.

1857

Warka has 2,761 residents and 165 houses.

1857

Piotr Wysocki returns to Warka after his exile in Siberia.

1859

Piotr Wysocki, who has recently returned from Siberia, organizes a ceremonial, solemn transfer of the remains of the Mazovian Princes from the ruined Dominican Church to the Franciscan Church.

Ruins of the Dominican Church, 19th-century watercolor reproduction

1863

Colonel Władysław Kononowicz, photo, late 19th century

January Uprising rebels fight Tsarist troops at Warka; Władysław Kononowicz and his two aides are publicly executed on Warka meadows.

1864

The Franciscan Order in Warka ceases to exist.

Post-Franciscan church in Warka, photo, mid-20th century

1865

Warka has 3,172 residents and 176 houses.

ok. 1891

The first locksmith workshop, later called “Bracia Lubert” Construction Hardware Factory, opens in Warka.

Page from "Bracia Lubert" Construction Hardware Factory’s catalog , early 20th century

1897

Fr. Marceli Ciemniewski, photo, 19th/20th centuries

Warka has 4,274 residents and 304 houses. Fr. Marceli Ciemniewski starts to head the parish in Warka.

1898

Zygmunt Ledóchowski (d. 1965)–an eminent chemist–is born in Warka.

1903

A fire consumes 66 houses and 74 farm buildings in Warka; about 220 families are left homeless.

1908

A volunteer fire department takes shape.

Warka firefighters, photo, early 20th century

ca. 1910

A brass band at the Volunteer Fire Department organizes in town.

1912

Warka has 5,900 residents.

1913

Warka has 6,149 residents.

1914

After the outbreak of World War I, Warka residents form a Citizens’ Committee to provide help for civilians.

1915

A military campaign brings about the conclusion of Russian rule; Warka lies in the German occupation zone.

1915 – 1918

During German occupation, the town is supplied with electricity from a private power station owned by the Kosmahls; German authorities open civil offices, build a bridge over the Pilica River and a road between Warka and Góra Kalwaria (14 miles north of Warka).

German soldiers during WWI in Warka, photo, early 20th century

1918

On November 11, Warka residents disarm German soldiers.

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