Nasielsk is located in the Masovia District (Mazowsze) which is lies in the basin of the middle section of the Vistula (Wisla) River in northeast Poland.
In the middle ages it belonged to the Duchy of Masovia
Town privileges were granted in the 13th century (1200). Attacks and invasions from the neighbouring tribes of Sudovians, Prussians and Lithuanians in the 13th and 14th century were common.
Masovia became the centre of a big state during the Polish –Lithuanian Union (1385)
By 15th century Masovia is a fife in the Polish Kingdom and annexed to Poland by 1526
Warsaw is a Masovian town and becomes the capital in 1596
The 17th band 18th century wars led to a collapse of the Masovian regional economy
In the third partition of Poland in 1795 Masovia comes under Prussian rule
In 1807 Napoleon creates the Warsaw Duchy of which Masovia is a part
In 1815 the Vienna Congress creates the Polish Kingdom (Congress Poland) of which Masovia a part. Congress Poland was under de facto Russian rule. Under Congress Poland Masovia is divided into two provinces – Plock and Masovia, (Nasielsk was in Masovia)
In 1877 a railway is built from Warsaw to Danzig through Nasiesk
In 1924 a railway tract is built from Nasielsk to Sierpc
The incorporation of Masovia into the Polish Kingdom in 1592 was a detriment to the Jews as the privilege of “de non tolerandis Judaeis “ was grated by the Polish Kings to the Masovian Towns. Towns held by the Polish aristocracy were kinder to Jews as the aristocracy depended on them more and gave them better conditions and protection.
The permanent economic retardation of the Masovian territory was the cause of a rather not numerous and not wealthy Jewish population.
Miasta Polskie w Tysiacleciu Polish Encyclopedia
(Polish Towns in the Millennium) Wielka Encyklopedia Powszeclina
Warsaw, 1965-1967, 2 Volumes Warsaw 1968 – 1970
Pages 488-489 13 Volumes
Nasielsk
The town of Nasielsk is in the Pultusk District in Warsaw Province and is located on the small river Nasielna, 23 km south west from Pultusk and 50Km from Warsaw.
In the vicinity of the present Nasielsk there was a fortified (fenced) settlement built at the end of the 10th and beginning of the 11th centuries, remnants of which are situated at the river‘s edge. (On the terrain of the present village Mazewo it was one of the biggest fortified settlements in the early Medieval period (on Polish territory). Nasielsk was a Royal Castle located at the crossing of two important tracts; from Warsaw northwards and from Plonsk eastwards, and as such it served as a defense point in North Masovia (against the attacks of Lithuanians, Prussians and Sudovians). Nasielsk was a royal castle as early as in the 11th century.
In its vicinity there was also a non fortified (non fenced) market settlement whose name was primarily Nosidlisk – probably from the name of another small river (stream) –Nosidlna.
The name Nasielsk appears for the first time in a document in 1065, called the “Moglino Falsificate”, and then in a document in 1155.
In 1257 Siemowit I, Duke of Masovia, vested the monastery in Czerwinsk with one third of the land of Nasielsk (This vesting of land was made before 1155). In 1386 Janusz I, the Duke of Masovia vested the remainder of land in the Knight, Janusz of Radzanow. From then on until 1867 Nasielsk belonged to private owners.
This vestiture in 1386 also transferred the Town from Polish law to the “Chelmno” law (Magdeburg). In 1576 it was defined as “oppidium”.
The part of Nasielsk that belonged to the Czerwinsk monastery was named “The Church Village” encompassing the parochial church. The residences of the private owners of Nasielsk was the village Chrcynno where ther was their manor and land estate(the late Folwarczna/Manorial/Streetin Nasielsk).
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