Od miasteczka do miasta. Limanowa w procesie przemian cywilizacyjnych w XIX wieku

Abstract

In the second half of the 18th century Limanowa was a small town in the Western Galicia, which considering the economic growth did not distinguish itself from neighbouring villages. Due to having the city rights and privileges to host fairs and markets given earlier, it was a local centre of sorts. An important influence on the development of the town in the first half of the 19th century can be found in the construction of the Carpathian route, and in the 1860s – the administration reform, which resulted in Limanowa turning into the starosty seat. Since then its importance was not judged by the economic and educational functions, but rather administration ones, driving the inhabitants of the entire poviat near. At the end of the 19th century many inhabitants of the city emigrated for work, and the re-emigrants became the carriers of progress. At the turn of 19th and 20th centuries Limanowa accentuated its “citizenship” also by the style of building construction and fulfilling the education function for the entire poviat.