Wieruszów

Wieruszów stands on the Prosna in the historic Wieluń Land. The town developed under the patronage of the noble Wierusz family in the late Middle Ages. Its parish was established in 1386, and Bernard Wierusz founded a Pauline monastery here in 1401. The monastery was rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1676; its church contains a portrait of its founder. The town passed to Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, then to the Duchy of Warsaw and, in 1815, the Russian partition.