Toszek

Toszek grew around a fortified seat in Upper Silesia and became the centre of a small duchy after the division of the region in the thirteenth century. Its castle and town passed under the Bohemian Crown in the fourteenth century. King Ferdinand granted Toszek Magdeburg rights in 1536, and Emperor Rudolf II sold the castle and its lands to the Redern family in 1593. The town burned in 1677 and passed to Prussia in 1742, when the First Silesian War changed the allegiance of much of Silesia.