Country Poland Gmina Bledzew Local time Sunday 12:44 AM | County Międzyrzecz Population 1,300 Voivodeship Lubusz Voivodeship | |
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Bledzew [ˈblɛd͡zɛf] (German: Blesen) is a village in Międzyrzecz County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bledzew. It lies on the western rim of the Greater Poland historic region, left of the Obra river, approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) north-west of Międzyrzecz, 27 km (17 mi) south-east of Gorzów Wielkopolski, and 65 km (40 mi) north of Zielona Góra. The village has a population of 1,300.
Map of Bledzew, Poland
The settlement was established in the 1230s by the Piast duke Władysław Odonic of Greater Poland. After the adjacent Lubusz Land had passed to the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1248, the Ascanian margrave Waldemar occupied the Bledzew area and granted it to the Cistercian monks at Zemsko; it nevertheless was reconquered by the Polish king Władysław I the Elbow-high in 1326 and incorporated into the Poznań Voivodeship of the Polish Crown. Bledzew received city rights according to Magdeburg law by King Casimir IV Jagiellon in 1458, confirmed by his successor John I Albert in 1493.
In the course of the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Bledzew was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia and from 1815 incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Posen. After World War II with the implementation of the Oder-Neisse line it returned to the Republic of Poland.