Przyszowa

Przyszowa
Village
St. Nicholas Church in Przyszowa
Przyszowa
Coordinates: 49°39′N 20°30′E / 49.650°N 20.500°E / 49.650; 20.500
Country	Poland
Province	Lesser Poland
County	Limanowa
Gmina	Łukowica
Area	18.6 km2 (7.2 sq mi)
Population (2012)	2,470
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	34-604

Przyszowa [pʂɨˈʂɔva] is a village in southern Poland, in the Limanowa County, within the province of Lesser Poland. It lies approximately 61 km (38 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków. The village has 2,470 inhabitants.

The village name Przyszowa is traditionally derived from the word "przychodzić" (come).

Przyszowa is one of the oldest villages in the Limanowa County. The earliest surviving documentary reference to the village dates from 1326. However, the ruins of the medieval Przyszowa Castle, atop the Łyżka (Wyżka) hill overlooking the village, are from a much earlier date, possibly 11th century.

It is believed that the castle originally belonged to the castellans of Nowy Sącz, and then to the Wierzbięta family of the noble Janina clan.

At the end of the 13th century, for unknown reason, the Wierzbięta family abandoned the castle and relocated into a new manor house in the centre of the village, where they ruled until the middle of the 17th century. In the second half of the 17th century part of the village belonged to the Dunin-Wąsowicz family of the Łabędź clan. In 1655 Krzysztof Dunin-Wąsowicz famously lead an army of local landlords and peasants to victory against a much larger Swedish garrison near Limanowa, during the Second Northern War between Sweden and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1683 the village was purchased by the Żuk-Skarszewski family of the Nałęcz clan after their family manor in Skarszowice in Podolia was destroyed by the Cossacks during the Polish–Cossack–Tatar War. The descendants of the Żuk-Skarszewski family continue to live in the village.