POLSKA	POLAND
województwo: Podkarpackie	voivodship: Subcarpathia
miasto na prawach powiatu: Przemyśl	city: Przemyśl

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Przemyśl is situated on the river San in southeastern Poland close to the border to Ukraine, between the Sandomierska lowlands and the foothills of the Carpathian mountains.

The earliest traces of humans inhabiting the area date back some 30–40,000 years. During the 4th century the place seemed to have been a significant administrative and military centre of the Roman empire. The first mention of Przemyśl is found in a document of AD 981 connected to the rivalry between the rulers of Poland, Ruthenia and Hungary. At the turn of the 12th century, Przemyśl was the capital of a Ruthenian duchy, after the mid-14th century it belonged to Poland. The civic rights of the town were confirmed in 1389. From the 17th and 18th century on the dominating ethnic groups were Poles, Ruthenians and Jews (who had first been mentioned here already in 1031). Throughout the centuries, Przemyśl thrived as a trading town at the crossroads of routes connecting the Baltic Sea in the North with Hungary in the South, Kraków in the West with L'viv in the East. After the 1st Partition of Poland in 1772 Przemyśl became part of Austria. Because of its location close to the border to the Russian Empire the Austrians built a system of fortifications which made Przemyśl one of the largest fortresses in Europe.

After World War I Przemyśl became part of Poland again. Between 1939 and 1941 the river San marked the border between Germany and the Soviet Union. During the Nazi era practically all the Jews were deported to concentration camps. After the capture of the town by the Red Army the new Polish authorities resettled the Ukrainina population. The new borders drawn after the end of World War II deprived Przemyśl of its natural economic base but the elevation of Przemyśl to the rank of a provincial capital had a beneficial effect on the city. For centuries Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic bishops had their residences in Przemyśl. During the democratization process the Catholic diocese of Byzantine-Ukrainian denomination (formerly Greek Catholic), which had been dissolved by the communists and whose jurisdiction streches over all of Poland, was reestablished in 1991. The territorial reform of the Roman Catholic dioceses in 1992 resulted in the establishment of the Przemyśl archdiocese.

The Baroque Clock Tower (Wieża Zegarowa) [left] (71 m high) was built in 1775–1777. Today it houses the Przemyśl museum of bells and pipes.

Glass no. 3676 [near left] shows a view of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic cathedral of St. John the Baptist, built in the 17th century by the Jesuit order and originally dedicated to St. Ignatius. After Przemyśl fell under Austrian rule and the suppression of the order in 1773 it slowly fell into ruins and in 1820 it was closed and turned into a storehouse. With the gradual democratization of region in the second half of the 19th century plans appeared to restore the church, finally carried out in 1903 and in 1904 the former Jesuit church was reconsecrated in 1904 as Sacred Heart of Jesus. After World War II it served as a garrison church and also offered a weekly Mass in the Byzantine Rite for Ukrainian Catholics whose church had been closed by the communist government. In 1991 the church was subject of a controversy, when the Roman Catholic Church (with personal oversight by pope John Paul II) decided to donate the building to the Greek Catholic population in Przemyśl, to serve as the cathedral of the Archeparchy of Peremyshl-Warsaw.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_St._John_the_Baptist,_Przemyśl]
The labeling of the picture is in both Polish (i kościół po Jezuicki, 'former Jesuit church') and, not quite consistent, in German (Bischofs-Palais, Jesuitenkloster, 'episcopal palace, Jesuite monastery').

Glass no. 3677 [near left] shows a view of Przemyśl central station, built in 1859–1860 and rebuilt in neo-Baroque style in 1895. It was completely renovated in 1922 and 1959, and partly rebuilt in 1966, again renovated in 1988–1995. In the years 2010–2012 the station underwent a major renovation restoring its appearance from over 100 years ago. The railroad from Przemyśl to Lemberg (now Львів (L'viv), Ukraine), originally named 'Galizische Carl Ludwig-Bahn' (Galician Carl Ludwig Rairoad) for Archduke Karl Ludwig, brother of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I, was constructed in 1859–1861.
[https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przemyśl_Główny]
The labeling of this glass again is in both Polish (Dworzec kolejowy) and, not quite consistent, in German (Bahnhof), i.e. 'railway station'.

Glass no. 4609 [near left] shows a view of Wybrzeże Tadeusza Kościuszki (T. Kościuszko Quay), named for Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817), military engineer, statesman, and military leader who fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's struggles against Russia and Prussia, and on the U.S. side in the American Revolutionary War. He is considered a national hero in Poland as well as in the United States and in Belarus. Today, the quay is named Wybrzeże Ojca Świętego Jana Pawła II (Holy Father John Paul II Quay), named for Pope John Paul II.