Frampol

Frampol is a small town in eastern Poland, in Biłgoraj County, within Lublin Voivodeship. It has 1,431 inhabitants (December 2021), and lies in the eastern part of a historic region of Lesser Poland, near a hilly upland called Roztocze. Frampol is surrounded by the Szczebrzeszyn Landscape Park and the Janów Lubelski Forest. The town is a junction of two local roads (the 74th and the 835th). The distance to Lublin is 68 kilometers.

==History== ===18th century=== The town was founded in 1717 by Count Marek Antoni Butler, with a unique, highly symmetric layout of streets in the shape of concentric rectangles around a large central square. Its name, originally spelled Franopole, comes from Franciszka née Szczuka, the wife of Count Butler. In 1735, the Jewish community of Frampol already had its own cemetery, and in 1740, Józef Butler funded a wooden church, which since 1778 exists as a separate parish. In the second half of the 18th century, the town belonged to the Wisłocki family. It was an important center of artisans, mostly cloth makers, and all houses were made of timber. In 1789, King Stanisław August Poniatowski established seven annual fairs. Frampol belonged to Lublin Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.