The village of Izdebnik is located in the Jastrzębka Valley (‘Dolina Jastrzębki’) in the western part of Podgórze Wielickie. In the centre of the village is a church built between 1839 and 1841. In addition to the historical church in Izdebnik, it is worth seeing the old post office building built at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries on the former Main Road of Commerce and Post (‘Główna Szosa Handlowo-Pocztowa’). On the southern side, the building has two floors with arcade galleries; three arcades on the ground level and five on the first floor. The lower part of the building housed stables for horses. It was a rest stop, inn, and tavern for the regular Post Service from Vienna to Lviv. The journey by postal cart (‘ambulans pocztowy’) from Vienna to Lviv took four days, with a change of horses. The tract (‘gościniec’), known as the Viennese or Imperial Route, was built after the First Partition of Poland and connected Vienna with Lviv. The Viennese Route runs from the post office building in Izdebnik, through Myślenice, and on towards Lviv. After the Third Partition of Poland, the route to Kraków began from the post office building and ran through the middle of the village, past the church. The roads to Lviv, Vienna, and Kraków diverged at the old post office building.
St. Margaret’s Church, Izdebnik
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