sentences:  As part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sosnowiec belonged to Kraków Voivodeship, one of three voivodeships of Lesser Poland.It became a border town after the neighbouring Duchies of Silesia passed to the Bohemian Crown in 1335.In the result of the Third partition of Poland in 1795, however, it was seized by the Kingdom of Prussia and was included into the newly established province of New Silesia.