MUSEUM BROCHURE „From the History of Kielce”

Text: Jan Główka
Design: Anna Góra-Klauzińska
Publisher: Museum of the History of Kielce, Kielce 2009
Format: 14,5 x 21 cm, p. 20
Limp binding
Price: 2 zł

„The beginnings of kielce go back to tiny settlement, a goodsexchange spot in the heart of the Świetokrzyska Primeval Forest. The name of the city might be related to either “kiełce” (in Polish the wild boar's tusks), Celts, in Polish Kelts, or to “klec” – the word used for a primitive shanty. Presumably, the city was the seat of a prince’s castellany. In the 11th century, to stress the role played by Kielce at the time, the St. Adalbert church was built here."