Kiernozia - village in Poland located in voivodeship of Lodz, in Lowicz poviat, by the provincial road No. 584. Seat of the Kiernozia Commune.
In the years 1975-1998 the village was located in the Płock Province.
Located about 20 km north of Łowicz, by the river Nida, at the intersection of former routes with Płock to Łowicz and from Kutna down Sochaczew (now road No. 584) and local roads through Żychlin to Kutno and via Rybno to Sochaczew.
On the coat of arms (established in 1847, approved in 2004) - a brown running wild boar (Kiernoz) with silver sabers (fangs) and a silver eye, in a green field.
Geographic coordinates: 52 ° 16′07 ″ N 19 ° 52′12 ″ E
In 1219, the dignitary Krystyn bequeathed the village of Brodne, adjacent to Kiernozia, to the Płock cathedral. In 1303, the bishop of Poznań, Andrzej, consecrated a church in the settlement of Kiernozia, separated from the area of Czerniew, to which he tithed his field in that village - and this was the first mention of the settlement. The document from 1359 shows that Kiernozia and Czerniew belonged to the bishop of Poznań. The parish existed from the 15th century.
The next owners, now secular, were Kiernoski of the Junosz coat of arms. All the time, until 1870, the town remained in private hands (in the 15th century the Sierpski family, then Piwów, Łączyński, then Lasocki).
According to the register of monuments National Heritage Institute the following objects are entered on the list of monuments:
- parish church st. Małgorzata, 16th century, registration number: 100-VI-9 from March 16, 1961 and 114 from August 15, 1967
- belfry, 19th century, 20th century, registry number: 565 from August 17, 1967
- palace complex, 19th century:
- palace, registration number: 93-VI-2 from March 29, 1949 and 115 from August 17, 1967
- park, registration no .: 566 from August 17, 1967
The parish church of st. Małgorzata is located southeast of the market square. Originally gothic from the 16th century, rebuilt. Inside, a baptismal font from 1519, a bell from 1557.
In the church there is a crypt of Maria Walewska (the earthly remains of Maria Walewska, martyrs of Napoleon Bonaparte, were buried here in 1818.
To the east of the church, the classicistic Łączyński palace in a landscape park with a nature monument - a pedunculate oak with a circumference of 4 m. Maria (Maryanna) Łączyńska, later Pani Walewska, was born in this palace.
A dedicated mound in the park Tadeusz Kościuszko built in 1917, destroyed by the Germans. In 1967 it was rebuilt.
There are some legends connected with Kiernozia:
- The king was supposed to stay here Władysław Jagiełło in preparation for the Battle of Grunwald. In the surrounding forests, he was to hunt wild boars (steering) - hence the name and coat of arms of the town. Apparently, in the nearby Osmolina, their bristles were fired (charred), they were taken by sleigh to Sanniki, and they were eaten (filled with mouths) in the near future Gąbin.
- The local starost of Łączyński was to be visited by Tadeusz Kościuszko, whose name was given to the school, the estate and the mound built in the park, next to which a stone with the inscription was placed: "The understanding of the homeland, the heart of the neighbor, Kiernozi's whole self”.
- There is a well in the market square into which Nicolaus Copernicus' pen was supposed to fall.
Kiernozia - website of the commune
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