Knowledge Base

The year 1517 is considered the beginning of the Reformation, when Martin Luther announced 95 theses. Initially, the Reformation thought did not find recognition in Poland. In 1520, King Sigismund the Old forbade the importation of Luther’s writings, and in 1526 he was punished with the death penalty for deviating

From the location of the city in 1257 to 1396, the head of the city was the bailiff, and then the mayor until 1793. . The Great Seym in 1791 unanimously passed the law on the townspeople. It gave the townspeople the privilege of “neminem captivabimus” – immunity of personal inviolability

The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church was established in our country in 1929, and the autocephaly was renewed in 1948. The head of the church is the Metropolitan Archbishop of Warsaw. Krakow belongs to the Łódź-Poznań Diocese and has one parish under the invocation of Assumption of the Virgin Mary, it

Magdeburg Law is a set of laws of this city also known as Weichbild Saski. It was created as a result of the merger of the treaty on the judicial system with the Magdeburg lay law. These laws determined the organization, customs and regulations inside the city. From the end

A literary and artistic quarterly located at Gołębia 20 st in Krakow, serving the presentation of the most interesting literature phenomens of both Polish and foreign-languages. It has been published since 1995. Mariusz Czyżowski became its first editor-in-chief.

Księżarski Feliks was an architect born in Kraków in 1820. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in 1835-1837, then at the Technical University in Munich and Karlsruhe. He also graduated from the military artillery and engineering school in Metz, and later worked as a road

Krzemiński Władysław was an actor, director, teacher, writer and director of the theater. He was born in 1907 in Kraków. He studied architecture at the Technical University in Brno, then he studied at the Drama School in Krakow and at the State Conservatory of Music in Warsaw. He collaborated with

Bloody Spring 1936 tells the story of confectionery and industrial workers who in 1936, faced with starvation wages, demanded increases and stopped extending working hours, and also demanded the reinstatement of the dismissed union members. Some of them paid for it with their lives. The workers of the cigarette factory and

Krumłowski Konstanty was an actor, journalist and author of many stage works describing the life of the suburbs of Krakow. He was born in Kołomyja in 1872 and died in 1938 in Kraków. One of his most famous works is “Królowa Przedmieścia” (Queen of the Suburbs), in which Krumłowski immortalizes

Lem Stanisław was an outstanding, award-winning writer born in 1921 in Lviv. There he began medical studies in 1940, which he continued at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. During the war he worked as a car mechanic. He is famous as one of the most outstanding representatives of Polish science