Pleszew

Pleszew was already a town when it appeared in a document of Duke Przemysł II in 1283. A private possession of Polish nobles, it lay in Kalisz Voivodeship and grew as a centre of local trade and crafts. A royal privilege of 1493 permitted two weekly markets and two annual fairs; by the early sixteenth century the town had nine craft guilds. In the eighteenth century the road between Warsaw and Dresden brought the Saxon kings Augustus II and Augustus III through Pleszew.