Społeczno-demograficzne okoliczności powstania parafii Ewangelicko-Augsburskiej w Wieluniu na początku XIX w.
Social and demographic conditions of formation of the parish of the Evangelical-Augsburg in Wielun in the early nineteenth century

Summary/Abstract: The nineteenth century is the period in the history of Wielun and the region for meetings of representatives of different cultures and religions, speaking different languages. They lived here together Poles, Jews, Germans and Russians. After the Second Polish Partition (1793), these areas were included in the Hohenzollern monarchy. The new province, due to its location in relation to early occupied Polish territories, was named South Prussia. During this period, the district created the first German settlements wielunskiego like Louisenfeld. In the village the number of German settlers, dating mainly from Württemberg. After the Congress of Vienna, we are dealing in the whole of the Polish Kingdom with enhanced settlement of newcomers Prussian Silesia, the Grand Duchy of Posen, Pomerania, Saxony and the Austrian countries. A wave of settlement was called by the government in Warsaw, concerned the development of industry, especially textile manufacturing. Using the location of the frontier, came here and settled many colonists from the neighboring districts of Silesia. They were mostly farmers who lived in villages scattered (on average 1–2 families in one village). Among them were millers and shepherds, flocks involved in farmyards. Rarely in the city and settled in the area weavers and textile representatives of other professions. Despite the government’s efforts Wielun not developed as a center of industry. To satisfy the religious needs of immigrants in 1820 founded a Protestant parish. The government in Warsaw gave the faithful Sisters Bernardine monastery. The nuns were transferred to the Paulin monastery.

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