Wieluń

Wieluń was a royal town and the centre of Wieluń Land in the Sieradz voivodeship. Mentioned in 1282, it grew in importance as the older nearby centre of Ruda declined. Its position connected Silesia with the interior of Poland, and the town prospered during the sixteenth century.

The Swedish invasion of 1655–1660 brought plunder and burning, followed by plague in 1707–1711. After the second partition of Poland in 1793, Wieluń came under Prussia, then became part of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 and Congress Poland in 1815.