Z Prochowic do Lasu i z powrotem. Z badań nad początkami miasta nad dolną Kaczawą
From Prochowice to Las and back. Notes from research on the beginnings of the towns on the Lower Kaczawa

Summary/Abstract: The article covers the history of the beginnings of the town of Prochowice against the background of the development of settlement along the lower portion of the Kaczawa river during the 13th and first half of the 14th century. The results of archaeological research and analysis of written records allow us to conclude that the settlement in Prochowice was functioning in the early Middle Ages. Its further development was brought about by competition between the Silesian Piasts of the Głogów and Legnica lines. On the initiative of Henry V, Prince of Wrocław, a castle was erected here by his courtier Miron of the Jeleńczyk family, the ancestor of the lords of Prochowice. The loss of this fortress to Henryk, Prince of Głogów, was probably the reason why Las obtained municipal charter from the guardian of the Duchy of Wrocław, Bolko I, before 1298. For a time, there was a precharter settlement called Prochowice with a customs chamber of the Princes of Głogów, a castle under the administration of burgraves, and the city of Las, which belonged to the Princes of Legnica. All these elements were combined into a town centre with a castle by Stefan of Prochowice before 1348. These lands were taken over by Stefan’s sons, Mirzan and then Piotr, as a fief of the Princes of Legnica, and they held them until 1383. The lords of Prochowice, taking over the city of Las, also transferred their patrimonial name, Parchwitz, to it. They did so in 1374 at the latest, and the name Las was transferred to the neighbouring village of Kwiatkowice, which from 1375 began to appear in written sourcesas Alt Läst.

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