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Grocholice, Bełchatów — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Grocholice is the oldest district of Bełchatów, a town in its own right from 1420 to 1870, standing on the Rakówka in the south of the town.
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Where to stay in Grocholice
Where the beds are, and what that means for the visit.
The Rynek Grocholski is the centre of it. Bełchatów keeps the hotels, but the old market square out here carries the culture centre, the library and the sports club, and the church stands a short walk from it. Buses run in from the town. Four municipal lines serve the district, all of them ending at the hospital on the far side of Bełchatów.
Housing is mostly single-family.
About Grocholice
What are the main landmarks in Grocholice?
The All Saints church is Grocholice's own, not the town's. Archbishop Wincenty of Czarnków founded the Gothic building in the early thirteenth century, the parish was erected around 1230, and a neo-Gothic rebuilding between 1898 and 1908 left only fragments of the nave and the buttresses from the medieval church. Three Gothic figures survive inside.
St Dorothy, St Magdalene and St Catherine were carved in the fourteenth century, about 1350, and the main altar of Our Lady of the Scapular and St Joseph dates from the second half of the seventeenth. Later furnishings fill the rest. A stone font and a baroque pulpit came in the eighteenth century, along with three crucifixes, and a square beside the church is named for Teodor Kwarto, parish priest here after the war.
What is the history of Grocholice?
A papal bull put Grocholice on record in 1136. Innocent II issued it at Pisa, and the village already belonged to the great estates of the archbishop of Gniezno, on the road to Kamieńsk beside the Rakówka. Its parish church was founded between 1220 and 1233.
Władysław Łokietek allowed the move from Polish to German law in 1314, which gave the owner Wolimir full economic immunity for thirty years, and from 1336 the place stayed with the Gniezno archbishops' table estates until the end of the eighteenth century. Town rights came in 1485. Zbigniew Oleśnicki obtained them from Kazimierz Jagiellończyk and the founding act was signed in the archbishop's castle at Łowicz, sixty-five years after the location privilege of 1420.
Swedish troops burned it in the deluge. Rebuilding carried it into the eighteenth century, a great fire took it again in 1781, and the Russian authorities stripped the town rights in 1870 and attached it to the gmina Łękawa. A fire on 23 May 1914 destroyed almost all of it.
Bełchatów absorbed the district in 1977.
Where is Grocholice?
Grocholice takes the southern part of Bełchatów, on the Rakówka, a right tributary of the Widawka, with the long ulica Piotrkowska running out toward the Osiedle Binków.
Updated September 2026