The Austro-Hungarian Gendarmerie post (the Szlagor Square)
The house no. 45 belonged to the Komędera family from 1778 until 1881. In the years 1881–96, the building housed a beer and spirits tavern which was run by the Jewish leaseholders Dawid Grauer and Adolf Körbl. The house no. 45 and the neighbouring buildings form a yard which is commonly known as the “Szlagor Square”. In the Austro-Hungarian period, no. 45 housed a gendarmerie post. The names of the gendarmes working at that time in Kozy are known. In 1889 the gendarme was Alojzy Kryż, in 1890 Jan Reguła, in 1901 Karol Kolner, the post commander. Jan Reguła and his wife Leokadia née Kratochwil had two sons, Romuald and Edward, both born in the house. By the end of the 19th century, Jan Reguła and his family moved to Nowy Sącz. His son Romuald (born in 1894) was an outstanding painter who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Teodor Axentowicz and Wojciech Weiss. From 1919, he worked as a drawing teacher in schools in Nowy Sącz. In 1925 he moved to Vienna, and between 1926 and 1927 he stayed in Paris. In 1947, he moved to Kraków, where he continued to work as an educator at the Clothing Craft and Mechanical Technical School, and from 1950 at the State Higher School of Fine Arts. His younger brother Edward (born in 1895) served in Józef Piłsudski’s Polish Legions, and after World War I in the Polish Army as captain in the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment. In 1940 he was killed in Kharkov.