Explanations

Each item of the catalogue is comprised of the following parts:

Settlement name

In principle, the village / settlement name is provided in the form that appears in the register of Polish towns and villages or on the universally available 1:200 000 topographic map issued by the Wojskowy Zakład Kartograficzny (Military Cartographic Institute). Some village names no longer function in their original forms. This can be the result of a name change or village inclusion in the administrative limits of another town (e.g. Kępa Zawadowska - currently within Warsaw city limits). If this is the case, the author preserved the traditional name of the settlement (the historical monuments appear under that village name), at the same time providing the name of the town in which the village in question is included.

Every village name includes its administrative affiliation valid on the date this publication was submitted for printing

Historical names

The current village name is accompanied by its relevant historical nomenclature, which draws on sources from the end of the 18th century - to the present. I attempted to list all the names under which a given settlement may have appeared. In the case where the village name has not changed since its foundation, I provided the name in the form of its first appearance. The date of the appearance of the village name is based on the date a map was drawn, and not on the date it was issued. In some cases, the geographic dictionaries of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic states are listed as sources of the village name appearance.

Location on the map

The village name is accompanied by a fragment of a historical map that shows the settlement under the traditional name, or in case of a village that did not exist at the time, a place where it was later founded. For clarification purposes, the fragment was selected from one of the following maps: Topograficzna Karta Królestwa Polskiego (Topographic Map of the Kingdom of Poland), also called the Mapa Kwatermistrzostwa (Quartermasters' Map), or the Mapa Wojciecha Chrzanowskiego.

I did not succeed in finding the exact location of the village of Szczawinek, which was settled by the Dutch at the same time as Baranów, Jaktorów, and Kaski.

Description

The description that follows the village name includes:

- a short history of the settlement,

- the village location and description,

- the condition of the preserved cultural landscape,

- a description of the preserved relics of the colonization - buildings (general historical information about the object, location, construction and material, layout, the building mass and spatial structure, and condition) and cemeteries.

- information about no-longer existing objects.

If the description of an object includes information obtained from the monuments and sites record card, or the so-called biała karta (white sheet), it will include: the sheet type (BK - biała karta (white sheet)), ZK - zielona karta (green sheet), author's name and a completion date,

- a list of archival materials and bibliography on the subject.

Plans

The description of each selected object will be complemented with 1:100 plans, which demonstrate the site plan, ground view, or cross section.

Photographs

Because of the large number of objects, I decided to limit the number of pictures to the most precious and representative buildings, which present a given object from the most characteristic angle, allowing easy identification. In the case of villages with more than one object, I presented the most interesting site.

I included photographs taken during field research conducted in 2003 as well as during earlier trips.