Boronów (german: Boronow) 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 ...

Lubliniec County __NOTOC__ Lubliniec County ( pl, powiat lubliniecki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat A ''powiat'' (pronounced ; Polish plural: ''powiaty'') is the second-level unit of local government and administration ...

Silesian Voivodeship Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province ( pl, województwo śląskie ) is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia ('), with Katowice serving as its capital. Despite the Silesian V ...

, in southern Poland. It is (since 1993) the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called

Gmina Boronów __NOTOC__ Gmina Boronów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Lubliniec County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It was formed in 1993, having previously been part of Gmina Herby. Its seat is the village of Boronów, which lies ...

. It lies approximately east of

Lubliniec Lubliniec (german: Lublinitz) is a town in southern Poland with 23,784 inhabitants (2019). It is the capital of Lubliniec County, part of Silesian Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in Częstochowa Voivodeship (1975–1998). Geograp ...

and north of the regional capital Katowice. it is on the

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river. The village has a population of 2,793. Between 1975 and 1998 it was in the former

Częstochowa Voivodeship Częstochowa Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975–1998, superseded mainly by Silesian Voivodeship, with a few eastern gminas attached to the freshly created Świętokrzyskie Voivodesh ...

. The name Boronów originates from the coniferous

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s ( pl ''bory'') in the area or from the surname ''Boronowski'', who was one of owners of this village. In old chronicles the names ''Borunow'' and ''Bornów'' are found. But on the herb of Boronów there is a harrow, because it was a sign on the old village's stamp.

History of Boronów

The written history of Boronów begins in the 13th century in documents of Casimir III, but in that area older relics from

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and

Lusatian culture The Lusatian culture existed in the later Bronze Age and early Iron Age (1700 BC – 500 BC) in most of what is now Poland and parts of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, eastern Germany and western Ukraine. It covers the Periods Montelius III (earl ...

were found by

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in the 1920s. In 1611 a wooden

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was founded by Andrzej Dzierżanowski, owner of Boronów. In the 19th century the village belonged to Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen's family. In this time it was an industrial village. On its area there were two mines of ore, two breweries and a

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. Both mines were the largest in the whole ziemia lubliniecka.

Twin towns

* Międzyzdroje,

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References

Villages in Lubliniec County {{Lubliniec-geo-stub