Jurgów is the south-westernmost village in the Polish Spisz region. Among the high-density housing, one can find a small number of wooden monuments of Spisz architecture as well as this region’s distinctive brick houses with decorated facades. The oldest documents mentioning the village (recorded under its Hungarian name – Gyurgowa) come from the 16th century. The village’s location, the harsh climate hindering agriculture, and the proximity of the Jaworzyńskie region of the Tatra Mountains (‘Tatry Jaworzyńskie’) shaped the life of the population. The primary source of income for the residents of Jurgów was shepherding. They pastured their flocks on mountain pastures and glades of the large swathes of private land in Jaworzyńskie Tatra Mountains. In 1848, they were granted property rights to the pastures. In the second half of the 19th century, mountain pastures and sub-Tatra glades of the Jurgów, Czarna Góra, and Rzepiska villages became the property of Prince Christian Hohenlohe through enclosure of the Jaworzyn estates and were bought out from the peasants. As compensation for the lost pastures, the owners received new ones, located near the village. The residents of Jurgów received the Podkólne glade. More than a hundred years ago, they moved their shepherds’ huts from the Jaworzyn-region glades to the Podkólne glade, where we can see them to this day.