Odrowąż is a small village in the Stąporków commune. Its name originates from the name of the Odrowąż family which in the X c. moved here their seat from the upper Oder river. The first known owner of the settlement was Prędota Stary, the next one his son Saul (Szaweł), and after him the grandchild of Prędota – Iwo (Jan) the Kraków bishop, called Odrowąż.

Odrowąż is a charming place, located amidst pine trees, halfway through between Końskie and Skarżysko-Kamienna. In its long history Odrowąż was owned by many excellent families of the Republic of Poland: : the family of Odrowąż, Kmita, Kurowski, Kostka, Tarło czy Poniatowski. In 1399 king Władysław II Jagiełło granted the town charter to the settlement of Odrowąż. The next charter was granted in 1611. At that time on the request of Anna Ostrogórska kind Zygmunt III Waza vested in the charter on the Magdeburg rights. It ws confirmed by king Stanisław August Poniatowski in 1785. Odrowąż lost the status of the town after partitions and up to now exists as a village.

The turbulent history of Poland didn’t spare Odrowąż.  In 1655 there wer Swedes here, looting and destroying the town. In the end-XVIII c. havoc and fear among local residents were spread by the marching Russian troops. After the fall of the November and January uprisings the people were repressed. Two world wars in the 1st half of the XX c. also brought death and destruction.

The war devastation was survived by the most beautiful monuments of Odrowąż: the church of St. Jack and St. Katherine and the chapel of St. Rosalie. The establishment of the church of St. Jack is connected with a local legend: the building iwas to be built on a nearby hill. When the building materials were brought to the spot and the timber started to be hacked, the wood shavings falling down from under the axes of the carpenters were moving onto the neighbouring higher hill. Having considered it to be a result of some divine power, the materials were moved and the church was put up in the place indicated by the God himself.

 The other legend says that the oroginal founder of the church in Odrowąż was St. Jack who, during his apostolic pilgrimages, visited Odrowąż and in the place of the present church stuck a missionary cross.

On the terrain of the parish there is also the chapel of St. Rosalie. Built after the end of the „black plague” which was raging in the 1st half of the XVII c. It was demolished in the XX c. and in its place, in 1906, there was a wooden chapel built with the altar of St. Rosalie.

Odrowąż may also boast industrial traditions. The first record of smithies located there date from the XVI c. In the region of Odrowąż there was siderite extracted which contained iron ore. The prosperity of the iron production lasted till the mid-XVII c. and Odrowąż became the centre of trade of iron and stoneware. At that time Odrowąż was even called an iron town and, as the legend says, to the town led the iron gates.