Lady is a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Czyże
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Gmina Czyże () is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Czyże, which lies approximately north-west of Hajnówka and south-east of the re ...
, within
Hajnówka County
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Hajnówka County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local g ...
,
Podlaskie Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship in northeastern Poland. The name of the voivodeship refers to the historical region of Podlachia (in Polish, ''Podlasie''), and significant part of its territory corresponds to th ...
, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of
Czyże
Czyże (; , ''Čyžy''; Podlachian: ''Čyžê'') is a village in Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Czyże. It lies approximately north-west of Haj ...
, north-west of
Hajnówka
Hajnówka (; ; Podlachian microlanguage, Podlachian: ''Hájnuvka''; ) is a town and a powiat seat in eastern Poland (Podlaskie Voivodeship) with 21,442 inhabitants (2014). It is the capital of Hajnówka County. The town is also notable for its pr ...
, and south-east of the regional capital
Białystok
Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the List of cities and towns in Poland, tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area.
Biał ...
.
History
The village is located on the site of a manor farm founded in 1559.
The manor in Lady was described in 1576:
In the manor there were over 200 hectares of land and an undescribed manor, next to which a water mill was located on the Łoknica River. The manor in Lady over time took on special significance, becoming the seat of the Bielsk forestry. Its task was to protect the remains of the
Bielsk Forest. As this forest, apart from small remnants, practically ceased to exist, so with time the forestry was abolished as well. The time of the establishment of the manor house in Lady is difficult to determine, though it is assumed that it had its beginnings in the 16th century, when as part of the volost survey,
Queen Bona
Bona Sforza (2 February 1494 – 19 November 1557) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund the Old, and Duchess of Bari and Rossano by her own right. She was a surviving member of the powerful House ...
established the Bielsk forestry, and the village of Ladka became the seat of the forester. In the 1740s, renovation works were carried out at the manor house in Lady, supervised by Jan Sekowski. In the place where the manor buildings were located until the present day, numerous fragments of bricks have been found.
In a church document from 1775 it was recorded that Lady there were 66 people in 13 houses.
In 1942 an Orthodox wooden chapel of the Holy Brothers Maccabees was built on the initiative of Teodor Pawluczuk
in the north-eastern part of the village on the border with the village of Kuraszewo. The chapel belongs to the parish in Kuraszewo. Near the building there is a spring surrounded by sacrificial crosses.
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Villages in Hajnówka County
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