Chrzanow

Chrzanow is a city in southern Poland with 39,704 inhabitants as of 2006. It is situated inside the Lesser Poland Voivodeship and is the capital of Chrzanow County. It is impossible to set up a reliable date for the muse of the metropolis. A stronghold existed on the website online, which changed into later raised to the rank of a castellany. The earliest documents which corroborate the lifestyles of Chrzanow castellany come from the past due 12th century when, in around 1178, Chrzanow castellany become annexed to Silesia with the aid of order of Duke Casmir II the Just. In the second half of the 13th century it became reunited with the Duchy of Krakow. In 1241 the timber stronghold of Chrzanow turned into placed to the torch by means of Mongol hordes invading Poland from the east.

The metropolis of Chrzanow become rebuilt in line with the Magdeburg Law within the mid 14th century beneath the reign of King Casmir III the Great. However it appears that evidently it was not surrounded with the aid of protection partitions. It is thought that Chrzanow was an open town.