Pyzówka

Pyzówka
Village
Local Catholic church
Pyzówka
Coordinates: 49°32′N 19°57′E / 49.533°N 19.950°E / 49.533; 19.950
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lesser Poland
County	Nowy Targ
Gmina	Gmina Nowy Targ
Population (approx.)	840

Pyzówka [pɨˈzufka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowy Targ, within Nowy Targ County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) north-west of Nowy Targ and 59 km (37 mi) south of the regional capital Kraków.

The village has an approximate population of 840.

Pyzówka (or Śreniawa as it was also known) has historically been one of the outlying villages that form the royal demesne of Nowy Targ, comprising 37 villages and the town of Nowy Targ.

Pyzówka was first settled in the late 16th century when the Pieniążek family administered the Nowy Targ demesne. The family claimed payment for settling the village in 1616. Minakowski's Wielka Genealogia states that Jan Pieniążek z Kruzlowej (approx. 1540 - 1602) was the dziedzic (heir) of Pyzowka and Wróblówka. His mother, Anna Pukarzowska, carried the Śreniawa coat of arms (Polish crests all have individuals names) which may have given rise to the village's alternative name.

According to Krzeptowski and Krzeptowska the village was established by Mateusz (Matthew) Pyza, who was the brother of Piotr Czerwinski, Soltys (Elder) in the neighbouring, and much older, village of Klikuszowa. The first written document that mentions the Pyzowka (using its earlier name of Sreniawa) is a court record of 1604 noting a dispute involving a village resident called Tomasz Gomolka. The next recorded document, dated 1606, notes that Mikołaj Matiowicz was re-affirmed in his role as Soltys of Pyzowka/Sreniawa that year. Kreptowski and Krzeptowska note that Matiowicz (a patronymic that likely means son of Mateusz) was the eldest son of Mateusz Pyza. The different surnames recorded for father and son would not have been unusual in 16th-century Poland when surnames were neither fixed (people would commonly use several which might include a patronymic, a place of origin,a nickname, a parents surname or a house name (name associated with the individual’s plot of land or house) nor inherited as a rule.

The Sołtystwo (which in the 16th century typically gave its holder the privilege both to own land and assign land to settlers in exchange for corvee labour) did not then pass to Matiowicz’s offspring (Krzeptowski and Krzeptowska do not record him having any children or a wife), but was passed on to his brother Jakub Pyza Sreniawa, to use the name recorded in a document dated 1611. In this document Jakub Pyza Sreniawa’s daughter Dorota, is described as Soltys (female) of Sreniawa (“Soltyska Sreniawska”) and leaves money and goods to her second husband Filip Fornalik.