Nieborów 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 ...

Łowicz County __NOTOC__ Łowicz County ( pl, powiat łowicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms ...

Łódź Voivodeship Łódź Voivodeship (also known as Lodz Province, or by its Polish name ''Województwo łódzkie'' ) is a province-voivodeship in central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Łódź Voivodeship (1975–1999) and the Sieradz ...

, in 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 Nieborów. It lies approximately east of

Łowicz Łowicz is a town in central Poland with 27,896 inhabitants (2020). It is situated in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999); previously, it was in Skierniewice Voivodeship (1975–1998). Together with a nearby station of Bednary, Łowicz is a ma ...

and north-east of the regional capital

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...

. The village has a population of 900 and is famous for the Arkadia park situated nearby and the

Nieborów Palace Nieborów Palace ( pl, Pałac w Nieborowie) is an aristocratic residence located in the village of Nieborów in Poland. Built in the 17th century by one of the greatest Baroque architects, the Dutchman Tylman van Gameren, the building belongs to ...

and park. The palace is a former home of the Radziwill family.

Literature

* Krzysztof Jabłoński (Photographs) and Włodzimierz Piwkowski (Text), pl./en.: ''Nieborów. Pałac Radziwiłłów - The Radziwiłł Palace''. Wydawnictwo VOYAGER, Warszawa 1992, .

References

Central Statistical Office (GUS) ''Population: Size and Structure by Administrative Division''
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) Villages in Łowicz County Palaces in Poland {{Łowicz-geo-stub