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Modrzejów - its beginning was a tiny settlement which, in an unknown time, grew among ancient forests near the mouth of the Biała Przemsza River to the Czarna River. At that time it was called Mrowisko. The first mention of it comes from 1650 and is in the chronicles of the Brotherhood of the Rosary in Mysłowice. In 1706, with the consent of King August II of the Saxon, the settlement was renamed a town called Modrzewo (from the name of the owner). The current name began to be used in 1711. Modrzejów was the main center of the Jewish population in Zagłębie D±browskie. The Jews expelled by Warszycki from Pilica settled here. In 1713 they already had a kehilla, a synagogue and their own cemetery. According to the data from 1849, 310 Jews lived in Modrzejów, which constituted almost 84% of the town's total population. Modrzejów belonged to the Sielec estate. Its owners were: Jarocki, Klajner - Minor, Przybysławscy, Modrzewscy, Kabielscy, Tęgoborscy, Żulińscy, Grabińscy, Jordan count Stojewski, and from the beginning of the 19th century Germany: General Schimrnelpfenig von de Oye, Ludwig Anhalt-Coeten von Pless, Countess Szarlota von Vernigerode zu Stolberg and count Jan Renard (from 1856).
The city had the right to 9 fairs a year (a privilege of King Augustus III) and to organize weekly markets for grain, cattle and horses (a privilege of King Stanisław August Poniatowski). From 1725 there was a salt warehouse here. As a result of, inter alia, Strong competition from the nearby Mysłowice, which, although located abroad, was also a shopping center for idyllic properties, Modrzejów stopped developing. After the January Uprising (insurgent troops operated in this area and tried to capture the city), Modrzejów lost its town charter.
Industry started to emerge here relatively late. In the years 1902-1912, the "Modrzejów" mine was built as part of the "Niwka" mine; it gained independence in 1919. It belonged to the Society of Mines and Metallurgical Works in Sosnowiec. After World War II, it re-merged with "Niwka". Since 1915 Modrzejów has been a district of Sosnowiec.
Source:
1. Jan Przemsza-Zieliński "Known and ... unknown Sosnowiec" (1992), Sowa-Press, Ekspres Zagłębiowski
2. Marian Kantor-Mirski "From the past of Zagłębie D±browskie and its surroundings" (1931-32)
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