Brodnica is a
village in
Śrem County
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Śrem County ( pl, powiat śremski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( powiat) in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local gover ...
,
Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the
gmina
The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...
(administrative district) called
Gmina Brodnica.
It lies approximately north-west of
Śrem and south of the regional capital
Poznań.
History
Brodnica was first mentioned in medieval documents in 1230, when it was part of fragmented
Piast-ruled
Poland. It was a private village of
Polish nobility
The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in the ...
, administratively located in the Kościan County in the
Poznań Voivodeship in the
Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.
It was the ancestral home of the Brodnicki family of
Łodzia coat of arms.
Polish jurist, poet, political and military activist
Józef Wybicki, best known as the author of the lyrics of the
national anthem of Poland
( " Dąbrowski's Mazurka"), in English officially known by its incipit Poland Is Not Yet Lost, is the national anthem of the Republic of Poland.
The original lyrics were written by Józef Wybicki in Reggio Emilia, in Northern Italy, between ...
, was buried in the village
[ before his remains were relocated to the Church of St. Adalbert in Poznań in the interbellum. Wybicki's old gravestone is preserved and his wife is still buried in Brodnica. Other landmarks of Brodnica are the Mańkowski Palace with the adjacent park and the Saint Catherine church.
]
References
Villages in Śrem County
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