Brwinów is a town in
Pruszków County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, about from the centre of
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 13,718.
Until 1954, Brwinów was the location of the Helenów parish council and between 1917 and 1949 it was also Letnisko-Brwinów's major town.
Between 1975 and 1998, Brwinów belonged to
Warsaw Voivodeship. The town is located on the Łowicz–Błonie plains.
On 13 April 2014, there was a
Warsaw Eagles –
Angels Toruń
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exhibition
football
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game.
Brwinów is served by the
Brwinów railway station
Brwinów railway station is a railway station in Brwinów
Brwinów is a town in Pruszków County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, about from the centre of Warsaw. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 13,718.
Until 1954, Brwinów wa ...
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Famous people
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Leszek Bugajski, writer, editor "
Twórczość
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"
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Leszek Engelking
Leszek Maria Engelking (2 February 1955 – 22 October 2022) was a Polish poet, short story writer, novelist, translator, literary critic, essayist, Polish philologist, and literary academic, scholar, and lecturer.
Engelking translated a vast ...
, poet, translator
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Henryk Waniek
Henryk Waniek (born 4 March 1942) is a Polish artist, stage-set designer, author-journalist and commentator on literature and the arts.
Life
Henryk Waniek was born in Oświęcim, a small town near Kraków. The family moved to nearby Katowice ...
, painter
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Wacław Kowalski
Wacław Kowalski (2 May 1916 – 27 October 1990) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1947 to 1983.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1916 births
1990 deaths
Polish male film actors
Polish ...
, actor
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Bolesław Hryniewiecki, naturalist
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Jerzy Hryniewiecki, architect
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Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Jarosław Leon Iwaszkiewicz (; also known under his literary pseudonym Eleuter; 20 February 1894 – 2 March 1980), was a Polish writer, poet, essayist, dramatist and translator.Bartłomiej Szleszyński, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. 2003 Culture.plJ ...
, writer, poet
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Aleksander Werner, painter, sculptor
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Wacław Werner Wacław is a Polish masculine given name. It is a borrowing of , Latinized as Wenceslaus.
For etymology and cognates in other languages, see Wenceslaus.
It may refer to:
* Wacław Cimochowski (1912–1982), Polish philologist
* Wacław Gajewski ...
, physicist, teacher
Demography
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References
External links
Jewish Community in Brwinówon Virtual Shtetl
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Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship
Pruszków County