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Przededworze - a village in Poland located in the Świętokrzyskie Province, in the Kielce District (since 1975), in the municipality of Chmielnik.

The village administratively includes parts such as:

Przededworza includes 7 streets whose names are commemorated by people associated with the Chmielnik commune, who are Honorary Citizens of Chmielnik. We will find here streets:

In the vicinity, there are towns: Chmielnik, Jasień, Suchowola, Holendry, Ciecierze.

The history of the village dates back to 1551, when on the occasion of the location of Chmielnik by his heir, Jan Oleśnicki, we learn about a small settlement constituting its western part. In 1679 it was described as villa Przededworze aka Stary Chmielnik, and its current name is from 1787. In Przededworzu there was a farm, which at the end of the nineteenth century, on the way of exchange, went to Stanisław Zakrzeński and Zofia z Gadomskich from Rosiejowa. Stanisław Zakrzeński was a local judge of peace, the lowest degree judge who, with the help of the courts of peace, ruled mainly in minor civil cases. In 1882, it was decided to separate these lands (along with Dezyderow and the Dutch) from the Chmielnik estates, which sealed the separateness of Przededworza. Due to its former affiliation to Chmielnik, Przededworze often has the names Stary Chmielnik or Chmielnik Wieś.

The name Przededworze comes from the court, which once belonged to Stanisław Zakrzeński. Unfortunately, there is no trace of the court in which the Zakrzeński lived. It was demolished in the 1960s, and in the place where it was, you can see only a small mound of overgrown rubble and some old lime around. We can learn about what he looked like from the book Dwory i dworki and their owners in the Świętokrzyskie Province, by prof. Zbigniew M. Doliwa-Klepacki: "Built in 1920 on the projection of an elongated rectangle. From the front on the sides, strongly projections. Brick, one-storey, eight-axis front. He ran a porch with a triangular gable to the manor. The manor house was crowned with a hip roof. "The last owner of the manor was Stanisław Zakrzeński's son - Jan, married to Albina, both parents of the actor Janusz Zakrzeński, known mainly for the role of Józef Piłsudski. Entrance to Przededworza from the side of Chmielnik

The most important monuments include the Church of the Holy Spirit. Trinity (virtually All Saints), located on the site of the former Stary Chmielnik (now on the border of Przededworza and Chmielnik), consecrated by the Cracow bishop Jan Bodzanta in 1354. From records of Jan Długosz it appears that the wooden church existed already around 1440. the church dates from the beginning of the 16th century. In 1787, the services were moved to the newly built temple. The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. At the end of the 19th century, due to the tragic state of the building, Fr. Jan Zychowicz carried out his renovation, thanks to which we can see this interesting place today. The church is a single-nave, closed from the east with a semi-circular apse, the roof is gabled with a pediment over the apse and a wooden gable above the entrance, crowned with a small ave-bell. Inside the church, there was a barrel vault with lunettes and a wooden choir supported on half-piles. The interior is complemented by a wooden Baroque altar. The church belongs to the oldest preserved monuments of Old Chmielnik. A dozen or so old, damaged tombstones have been preserved at the church cemetery, including buried heirs of nearby towns. The inscription engraved on the concrete plaque informs that during the war it was a place of crimes committed by the Germans.

Stanisław Grabda (lieutenant of the NSZ, AK) and Janusz Zakrzeński (theater and film actor, well-known impersonator of Marshal Piłsudski's role, victim of a catastrophe came from Przededworza)

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