Pierściec is a village in Gmina Skoczów, Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.

[3] Politically the village belonged then to the Duchy of Teschen, formed in 1290 in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland and was ruled by a local branch of Piast dynasty.

After the 1540s Protestant Reformation prevailed in the Duchy of Teschen and a local Catholic church was taken over by Lutherans.

It was taken from them (as one from around fifty buildings in the region) by a special commission and given back to the Roman Catholic Church on 15 April 1654.

According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality dropped from 574 in 1880 to 539 in 1910 with a majority being native Polish-speakers (95.1%-98.3%) and a small German-speaking minority (most 27 or 4.7% in 1880) and at most 2 Czech-speaking persons, in terms of religion majority were Roman Catholics (66.8% in 1910), followed by Protestants (31.2% in 1910) and Jews (11 or 2% in 1910).