Miasto I Gmina Pilawa

Pilawa was located on ancient trade routes, as evidenced today by important communication roads such as: the Warsaw-Lublin road, 2 km from Pilawa, and the east-west road crossing the road, running from Łuków through Stoczek Łukowski, Parysów, Trąbki, Huta Czechy , Pilawa, Osieck to Góra Kalwaria. The oldest legal documents of the Pilawa settlement are the so-called "Liquidation Table" and "Property Act" issued by the Tsarist authorities of Russia on February 2, 1869. based on the decree of July 27, 1846 (which has been preserved by Mr. Andrzej Górski). Another oldest document is the "Measurement Register" from 1870. Their receipt was acknowledged by the then village head, Karol Libelt. These files mention 34 surnames of the owners of Pilawa, including 28 surnames of German origin, such as: Wollf, Libelt, Bachman, Ratter, etc. And only 6 Polish surnames: Sokół, Kowalski, Doński, Rychlewski, Rodziewski Jarosławski. It is never stated who owned the land before 1869. In 1865, the construction of the "Vistula Railway" began. It was a period when, after the January Uprising, there was intensification of oppression and Russification, and in the Prussian partition there was Germanization. Political conditions favored the families of German settlers, so they sold the poor Piławy lands to Polish peasants for a high price and moved to the Prussian partition. Despite this, several German families remain in Pilawa: Ratter, Libelt, Wollf, Battin. However, the number of Polish surnames is increasing: Kędziorek, Galas, Nowak, Wiechetek, Górski, Legat and Grzegrzółka.