Brdów

Brdów
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 / 52.350°N 18.717°E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Koło
Gmina	Babiak
Population
• Total	900

Brdów [brduf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Babiak, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in central Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 18 km (11 mi) north of Koło, 123 km (76 mi) east of the regional capital Poznań, 76 km (48 mi) south of Toruń and 185 km (115 mi) west of the country capital Warsaw.

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.