CITIZENS, ASSOCIATES AND OUTSIDERS
Residents of the Royal Free Town of Podgórze 1784-1915
From the beginning of the 19th century, the law of association with a particular town that applied in the Austrian monarchy was given to all people born in a place with parents associated with the same town, as well as people regarded as associates due to a 10-year-long stay, settling in the place, the purchase of land, the granting of town rights or a concession to conduct a craft, or employment in a state position. In 1863, it was considered that the law of association with a borough gave the right to stay in it as well as to ask for help during poverty, but this right was valid in only one borough.
After 1896, the borough could not decline the application of a person who could show a 10-year-long stay in its territory, counted from the beginning of adulthood and directly preceding the moment of application for the right. A condition to obtain this right was also the lack of using the borough's help during the time of living in the area.
The first census was conducted in Podgórze in 1857 – the census questions included one about the home borough. Later censuses, conducted every 10 years until 1910, contained a space defining the right of association with boroughs.
Agreement of the leaders of Kraków from May 1849 for the resettlement of Mikołaj Zieliński and his family to Podgórze
(ANK, ref. no. P 38, p. 335, 341)
Census card of the Follprecht family in the Podgórze census from 1857. The husband of Henryka Follprecht – Franciszek, a military clerk transferred to Podgórze was not covered by the census, in accordance with the rules he retained association with his place of birth, in other words, the Czech Pilsen
(ANK, ref. no. 29/93/1, house no. 190)
Certification of association with the borough of Podgórze for the merchant Dawid Matzner, issued by the Podgórze Town Hall in May 1908
(ANK, ref. no. P 34, p. 44a)
Entry concerning the Follprecht family in “Księga osób przynależnych do związku gminy miasta Podgórza założonej dnia 1 stycznia 1901 roku” (“Book of people associated with the borough of Podgórze established on 1 January 1901”)
(ANK, ref. no. 29/93/27, p. 82)
