Railway Station of the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway
The inclusion of Wadowice to the railway network of Galicia, and indirectly to Austro-Hungary, opened the way for the town’s inhabitants to travel to Cracow, Lviv and even...
The inclusion of Wadowice to the railway network of Galicia, and indirectly to Austro-Hungary, opened the way for the town’s inhabitants to travel to Cracow, Lviv and even...
The development of education in the latter part of the 19th century, and especially the rapid growth of the number of primary school pupils, was the main reason why the authorities...
The Sokół (‘Falcon’) Gymnastic Society became the symbol of the social activity of the inhabitants of Wadowice. The idea of ‘falcon’ societies was born in Habsburg...
In 1830, a two-storey military epidemic hospital was constructed. For sanitary and epidemiological safety reasons, it was located at the Zatorski Highway (today Wojska...
As a consequence of building the military hospital, a cemetery was located in its vicinity. The first burial took place in 1849. Up to the outbreak of the First...
Jews were a part of the Wadowice community in the Galician period. Most of them engaged in trade and crafts. In 1880, they constituted over 8% of the total population of the town (404...