Brzeźnica, Wadowice County

{{Other places|Brzeźnica (disambiguation){{!}}Brzeźnica}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Brzeźnica

| settlement_type = Village

| image_skyline = Brzeźnica BMa3.jpg

| image_caption = Gmina Brzeźnica municipal office

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| image_shield =

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{POL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship

| subdivision_name1 = Lesser Poland

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Wadowice

| subdivision_type3 = Gmina

| subdivision_name3 = Brzeźnica

| pushpin_map = Poland

| coordinates = {{coord|49|58|N|19|38|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}

| elevation_m = 230

| population_total = 1200

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Brzeźnica {{IPAc-pl|b|ż|e|ź|'|n|i|c|a}} is a village in Wadowice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Brzeźnica.{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|14|km|mi|0}} north-east of Wadowice and {{convert|25|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-west of the regional capital Kraków.

Until 1876, the owner of the village was Adam Gorczyński, a Romantic writer and painter, then his son Bronisław Gorczyński.{{Cite book |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego |year=1900 |series=Abablewo – Januszowo |volume=XV |location=Warsaw |page=247 |language=pl |chapter=Brzeźnica, wieś, powiat wadowicki |chapter-url=http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_XV_cz.1/247}}

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{{Gmina Brzeźnica, Lesser Poland Voivodeship}}

Category:Villages in Wadowice County

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