Brdów

Brdów [brduf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Babiak, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in central Poland.^[1]

Brdów
Village
panorama of Brdów/health center/church of St. Adalbert/center of Brdów/cultural building/fire department/Brdowskie Lake
Coat of arms
Brdów
Coordinates: 52°21′N 18°43′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Koło
Gmina	Babiak
Population
• Total	900

History

• 3700 BC – The first traces of people in the present Brdów.
• 1136 – The first written mention about Brdów.
• 1325 – The first mention about Catholic parish in Brdów.
• 1399 – The first mention of a brick church.
• 1436:
  • King of Poland Ladislaus of Varna brought to Brdów the Pauline Fathers Order from Jasna Gora and gave them into the care of church in Brdów.
  • Brdów gained town privileges.
• 1450 – Built the first school in Brdów.
• 1476 – City of Brdów became a royal property.
• 1562 – The renewal of civic rights of Brdów by king of Poland Sigismund II Augustus.
• 1584 – Built a hospital in Brdów.
• 1655 – Destruction of the city by the Swedes.
• 1824 – Construction of the factory in Brdów.
• 1863 – Battle of Brdów in Nowiny Brdowskie.
• 1870 – Loss of civic rights.
• 1893 – In Brdów lived 1 894 people.
• 1909 – Built a new building of school (at Church Street).
• 1938 – Built a new building of school (at Adam Mickiewicz Street).
• 1939:
  • Destruction of the town by the Germans.
  • Opened the hospital in place of new school (at Adam Mickiewicz Street).
• 1983:
  • Coronation of Image of Our Lady of Victories of Brdów by Pope John Paul II.
  • Fire of church.
• 1999 – Start of international cooperation with Airėnai (in Lithuania)
• 2004 – The Society of Friends of the Earth of Brdów (Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Ziemi Brdowskiej).
• 2007 – Expansion of the school building.
• 2009 – Construction of new building of kindergarten.
• 2010 – In Brdów was a car accident, which killed 5 people.
• 2011 – Wind farm built in Brdów.

Famous people

Famous people associated with Brdów:

• Andrzej Kreutz-Majewski - stage designer
• Augustyn Kordecki - Pauline monk
• Bronisław Matyszczyk - Pauline monk
• Eleonora Kiełczewska - mother of Pola Negri
• Florian Piskorski - American Polonia activist
• Jakub Krzyżanowski - grandfather of Frédéric Chopin
• Jan Skarbek - nobleman
• Józef Markowski - poet and priest
• Karol Libelt, senior - philosopher
• Karol Libelt, junior - insurgent
• Korneliusz Jemioł - Pauline monk
• Léon Young de Blankenheim - commander of the insurgent troops
• Mieczysław Wejman - Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków
• Pola Negri - actress
• Ladislaus of Varna - king of Poland and Lithuanian Grand Duke
• Zachariasz Jabłoński - journalist, theologian and priest

Church

Brdów is a local center of Catholic religion. Here is a St Adalbert's of Prague Church of a Pauline Fathers in Brdów. The church has existed since 1325.

Population

• 1777: 331 people
• 1827: 794 people
• 1859: 863 people
• 1902: 1,894 people
• 1946: 700 people
• 1999: 818 people
• 2002: 850 people
• 2005: 900 people
• 2014: 950 people

Gallery

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  Center of Brdów in 1934
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  The house where lived the famous actress – Pola Negri
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  St Adalbert's of Prague church in Brdów, 14th century; 17th century
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  Center of Brdów
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  Restaurant "Pod Jesionem" (en:Under the Ash) in center of Brdów
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  John Paul II monument
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  Frédéric Chopin monument
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  Fire Department in Brdów
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  Church Street
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  Shop "Groszek" (en:Pea)