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Description of Niewierkow

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Description of Niewierkow

The text presents the village of Nezwierków, which lies on the former border of the Volyn Governorate in the Rivne district. According to the author of the text, it was the property of the Lubomirski dukes. The article also presents the history of the village, dating back to the Jagiellonians and the Zamojski family, who had it in their possession in the 15th century. Later, the village changed hands - the text mentions successive Polish owners of the village, the parish church in Niewierków is also mentioned (Source: Tygodnik Illustrowany, Warsaw 1871, Series 2, T:8, p. 171, after: Digital Library of the University of Łódź).

A modernised reading of the text.

Description of Niewierkow.

On the former border of the Volyn Governorate, in the Rivne district, lies the village of Niewierków, the doneddyear residence property of the Duke and Duchess Lubomirski. Rows of houses and cottages, avenues lined with Italian poplars, an English garden with a canal, living plots, parks, groves, ponds and streams make up the interior of this magnate's residence, and the village fights for the better with its lush vegetation with neighbouring estates. The village is criss-crossed by a private road which carries loaded carts of wheat and salt to the land of the piscatoria. Several towns spread out in its vicinity, and for this reason the people here enjoy greater affluence and comfort than elsewhere. Niewierków is counted among the villages established in the first times of the Jagiellonian rule. In the 15th century, the estate was owned by the Zamojski family; it then passed from house to house, rising and falling in importance. At the end of the 16th century, the Lubomirskis became heirs to the estate under a bequest made by one of the Zamoyskis to Countess Teresa Lubomirska, and half a century later, the Rokszycki noble family settled on part of the estate and gave the name Roksowola or Rokszycka Wola to the seat they had established. In 1698, Mikolaj, governor of the Province of Troki, built a wooden church with a monastery on his part of the land, which he endowed generously with serfs, land and a piece of forest. He decorated the church and placed in it an old painting of the Virgin Mary of Sorrows, which soon became famous for its miracles. At the end of the 18th century, Niewierków was owned by the Wyleżyńskis, from whom it was purchased around 1790 by Jan Stecki, an alderman in the Crown, heir to the neighbouring town of Międzyrzecz. Several years later it passed again into the ownership of the Lubomirskis, together with Stecki's only daughter, Dorota, and finally, in 1850, it became the property of Józef Małyński, Marshal, and after his death, of his youngest son, Jan. The church existing today in this settlement was founded by Jan Stecki and Barbara Olizarova, née Rojewska-Olizarova, a Kyiv courtesan who ended her life in devotion to the church. Erected on the site of the former church in 1807, it has a spacious nave lit by square-long windows, with lower annexes adjoining it on either side. The exterior is decorated with a porch with four columns supporting a triangular façade and four corner walls in the shape of towers reaching the height of the nave. Its interior is poor, with a cornice of common workmanship, plain pillars carrying the choir, four pillars dividing the church into three parts and seven altars - that is all. Speaking of Niewierków, it is difficult not to sketch at least a little of the character of its noble previous owner, Rev. Dorota Lubomirska. Everyone who knew the area twenty or so years ago remembers this gentle, sweet, attractive figure, animated by a Christian spirit, as the middle name of this noble woman was: Mercy. Renouncing any and all showiness of dress, any and all excesses, so characteristic of the landowners, she turned everything she could spare into alms and charitable deeds, and dissatisfied with ad hoc donations, in 1809 she made a fund for the upkeep of 24 orphaned girls, who were brought up and cared for under her care. Princess Lubomirska died in Paris on 23 May 1854, adored and pitied by all who knew her. If there is anything to be said against the life of this noble woman, it is that, having furnished her moral world with everything that people call virtue and sanctity, she never allowed the thought of vice where there was no clear sign of crime, and was thus incapable of suppressing the evil that so easily takes root and flourishes in larger communities, as a result of which she was repeatedly sorely disappointed. Her sepulchral inscription is summarised in these two glorious words for any woman: "Mother of the poor".

Time of construction:

1871

Publication:

30.09.2023

Last updated:

24.06.2025
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