Proszowice

Proszowice lies on the Szreniawa northeast of Kraków. Casimir the Great made it a royal town in 1358 and built a palace that served for a time as a royal residence. Royal privileges encouraged the town's craftsmen and markets, while the nobility of Kraków Voivodeship gathered here for their local assemblies.

The town enjoyed a long period of prosperity from the early fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Casimir IV began a new church, completed in 1454, which became one of the notable Gothic churches of Lesser Poland. In the sixteenth century the Reformation gained adherents in the district, and churches became Calvinist or Polish Brethren places of worship before the Counter-Reformation prevailed. Fire in 1616 and the Swedish invasion later devastated Proszowice.