<p>The outstanding Polish religious thinker and philosopher Marian Zdziechowski (1861–1938) spent twenty-five of his most creative years in Krakow. This raises questions about why Zdziechowski chose Krakow over the more metropolitan Lwow (now Lviv in Ukraine) and how the local intellectual and artistic circles influenced him. In this article, we seek answers to these questions by analyzing the contexts given by Zdziechowski himself in his lecture “Old Krakow” (<i>Stary Krakow</i>), which was presented on the fiftieth anniversary of his creative work. Drawing on independent sources and existing historical analyses, this study reconstructs the main contexts in which the local milieu influenced Zdziechowski. The influence that various circles had is analyzed, from the most general to the most specific: First, we discuss the specifics of Galicia and the influence it had followed by the specifics of Krakow. The intellectual and artistic circles of the Krakow milieu considered include both formal and informal ones, starting with the Jagiellonian University community and ending with the discussions over pilsner beer in the Circle of the Contemporaries (<i>Zeitgenossen</i>). This work highlights the importance of the hitherto overlooked interdisciplinary context that was, and remains, typical of Krakow’s intellectual milieu and shows how this interdisciplinarity shaped local religious thought thanks to Zdziechowski and others.</p>