page_title: Przyszowa
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Przyszowa / History
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Przyszowa w 1930, widok od południowego zachodu
context_page_description: Przyszowa is a village in southern Poland, in the Limanowa County, within the province of Lesser Poland. It lies approximately 61 km south-east of the regional capital Kraków. The village has 2,470 inhabitants.
context_section_description: Przyszowa is one of the oldest villages in the Limanowa County. The earliest surviving documentary reference to the village dates from 1326. However, the ruins of the medieval Przyszowa Castle, atop the Łyżka (Wyżka) hill overlooking the village, are from a much earlier date, possibly 11th century. 
  It is believed that the castle originally belonged to the castellans of Nowy Sącz, and then to the Wierzbięta family of the noble Janina clan.
  At the end of the 13th century, for unknown reason, the Wierzbięta family abandoned the castle and relocated into a new manor house in the centre of the village, where they ruled until the middle of the 17th century. In the second half of the 17th century part of the village belonged to the Dunin-Wąsowicz family of the Łabędź clan. In 1655 Krzysztof Dunin-Wąsowicz famously lead an army of local landlords and peasants to victory against a much larger Swedish garrison near Limanowa, during the Second Northern War between Sweden and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1683 the village was purchased by the Żuk-Skarszewski family of the Nałęcz clan after their family manor in Skarszowice in Podolia was destroyed by the Cossacks during the Polish–Cossack–Tatar War. The descendants of the Żuk-Skarszewski family continue to live in the village.
  In 1880 Tytus Czyżewski was born here, one of the pioneers of modern Polish painting. In 1969 Jerzy Harasymowicz, a Polish poet, in his poetry collection  "Madonny polskie" (Polish  Madonnas), made famous the 14th-century Gothic statue of the Madonna of Przyszowa, as one of the finest examples of the so-called "spisko-sądecki" style.
caption: Przyszowa, 1930
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