Ludność Warszawy w świetle spisów podatkowych z I połowy XVII wieku
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Keywords

tax registers in modern cities
Warsaw
population structure

How to Cite

Belzyt, Leszek. 2022. “Ludność Warszawy W świetle spisów Podatkowych Z I połowy XVII Wieku”. In Gremium. Studies in History, Culture and Politics, no. 16 (December), 115-34. https://doi.org/10.34768/ig.vi16.370.

Abstract

Tax lists of early modern cities are classified as mass sources that make it possible to estimate the number of inhabitants and to show their professional, financial and ethnic structure. It is important to carefully apply appropriate methods of criticizing historical sources and conversion factors that indicate the size of the family at that time or the number of people living in one house, another for the city and the suburbs. When examining the cultural and ethnic affiliation of the townspeople (based on the wording of the surname), caution is especially recommended, because it is not a completely sure method, and people who lived in the city for a long time underwent cultural assimilation. The analyzed fiscal censuses for Old Warsaw indicate that merchants and financiers from German countries had a very strong position among the councilors and the richest at the beginning of the 17th century. The newcomers from Italian countries played a much smaller role. As Warsaw was the permanent seat of the king from 1611, courtiers, including the nobility, played an important role. Most of the population lived in the suburbs, as the two Warsaw cities had only about 2,500 people. It can be estimated that around the middle of the 17th century the entire center, together with the manor house and satellite towns (Praga, Skaryszew, Nowe Leszno and Grzybów) had over 20,000 inhabitants, which is clearly less respectable than what Maria Bogucka suggested. The bourgeoisie of Warsaw was then much weaker than in Kraków or Czech Prague. The richest merchants and financiers from these centers, such as Wettengel in Prague and Montelupi in Kraków, towered over Erkemberger and Walbach in Warsaw. It can be added that the total area of ​​Old and New Warsaw was only 26 ha, surrounded by walls, while Kraków and Kazimierz - 120 ha, and the cities of Prague - even 700 ha.

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