 Contemporary activities have left traces of the old town in the form of an existing semi-circular square in the city center.After the Second Partition of Poland, Strykow was in the Prussian sector, and later in the period 1807-15 in the Duchy of Warsaw and then in the Russian-controlled Polish Kingdom, from 1867 on as part of Piotrków Governorate.In the nineteenth century Stryków lost its civic rights.