Imielno is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in Jędrzejów County,

Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship The Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, also known as the Świętokrzyskie Province, and the Holy Cross Voivodeship ( pl, województwo świętokrzyskie ) is a voivodeship (province) of Poland situated in southeastern part of the country, in the histo ...

, in south-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 Imielno __NOTOC__ Gmina Imielno is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Jędrzejów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Imielno, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Imielno, which lies approximately so ...

. It lies approximately south-east of Jędrzejów and south of the regional capital

Kielce Kielce (, yi, קעלץ, Keltz) is a city in southern Poland, and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the bank ...

. Until 1954, Imielno was the seat of the Mierzwin commune. In 1975–1998, the town administratively belonged to the Kielce Voivodeship. The village is the seat of the Imielno commune. There is a football club in the village, GKS Imielno, founded in 2016.

History

According to Jan Długosz, the village was owned by the Różyc family in the 15th century. In the 19th century, a distillery operated here, which in 1876 produced 13,842 buckets. In 1827, Imielno had 22 houses and 96 inhabitants.

Church

Church of st. Nicholas from the first half of thirteenth century, brick, rebuilt in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, currently in the Romanesque style with

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and

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

elements . The main baroque altar from the first half of the 18th century. Inside, there are epitaphs from the 16th-19th centuries. The church with the bell tower has been entered into the register of immovable monuments (registration no.: A.89/1-2 of February 11, 1967).

References

Villages in Jędrzejów County Kielce Governorate Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939) {{Jędrzejów-geo-stub