Brest poviat - poviat in Poland, in in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, created in 1999 as part of an administrative reform. His seat is Brzesko.
An administrative division
The poviat consists of:
urban-rural communes: Brzesko, Czchów rural communes: Borzęcin, Dębno, Gnojnik, Iwkowa, Szczurowa towns: Brzesko, Czchów
Neighboring counties
Limanowa poviat Bochnia poviat Proszowice poviat Tarnów poviat Nowosądecki poviat
Worth seeing
in Brzesko
Historical monuments
Objects entered in the register of monuments of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Apart from those described below, three tenement houses, a manor house, a court building and a building of the former mikveh [7] were entered into the register. James the Apostle
Main article: Church of St. James the Apostle in Brzesko.
The gothic part of the parish church of st. James the Apostle. The urban layout of the Old Town
The urban layout of the Old Town with a complex of buildings. The complex, which is under conservation protection, includes: Market Square, Żwirki i Wigury Square and i.a. Kościuszko, Głowackiego and Mickiewicza streets [8]. Town Hall
The brick, two-story Town Hall with a tower, designed by Gabriel Niewiadomski, in the neo-Gothic style, from 1909, is located at Kościuszko Street. It is one of the oldest monuments and historical buildings in the center of Brzesko. At present, it houses the Municipal Cultural Center and the Registry Office. Goetz Palace The central part of the Goetz Palace, built in the years 1898–1900
Main article: Goetz Palace
A palace and park complex, the former seat of the Goetz Okocimski family, owners of the Okocim brewery. The palace was built in the years 1898–1900 by Jan Albin Goetz and his wife Zofia Jadwiga née Countess Sumiński. The residence was built in the neo-baroque style according to the design of the Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer [8]. In the years 1908–1911, the eastern wing was added. A chapel adjoins the palace from the west. The palace was visited, among others, by Archduke Karol Stefan Habsburg, President of the Second Republic of Poland Ignacy Mościcki, and the Primate of Poland, Cardinal August Hlond [9]. After World War II, the palace was the seat of the school. On November 30, 2007, the property, bought from the state, was returned to the descendants of the Goetz family. The palace has been completely renovated. It is surrounded by a vast English-style park established in 1900 [8]. War cemetery No. 276 War cemetery No. 276
Main article: War Cemetery No. 276 - Brzesko
A war cemetery from the First World War designed by Robert Motka, located at ul. Czarnowiejska. Burial place of 441 Austro-Hungarian, 3 German and 63 Russian soldiers. It adjoins the southern wall of the Jewish cemetery. The cemetery is fenced with a stone wall, with a high gate with semicircular wooden gates and reliefs of eagles. On both sides of the gate, from the inner part, there are contemplative gazebos. There is a central monument in the middle of the cemetery. Opposite the entrance, at the end of the cemetery, on the gable wall, there is an inscription board saying in three languages:
"YOU HAVE FALLED FOR THE HOMELAND IN WAR THE ENEMY OR A FRIEND - YOU HAVE DONE TO SLEEP JOINED IN THIS LAND OF PEACE - YOUR WORLD WAWRZYN WILL BE BOTH DECORATIVE"
See also: War cemetery No. 275 - Brzesko.
Jewish cemeteryGeneral view of the new Jewish cemetery
Main article: New Jewish cemetery in Brzesko
The Jewish cemetery is situated in the northern part of the city. About 300 tombstones have survived in the cemetery, the oldest one comes from 1824 and two ohels [8]. On the necropolis there are mass graves of Jewish victims of German crimes and a monument commemorating the victims of the Holocaust [10]. A separate part of the cemetery is the quarters of the Jewish soldiers who died during World War I [11].
See also: The Old Jewish Cemetery in Brzesko and War Cemetery No. 275 - Brzesko.
The old cemetery The parish cemetery, also known as the old one, is located at ul. Kościuszko, opposite the District Court building. The cemetery was established between 1785 and 1813 [12] (in 1801 [8]). In 1973 the cemetery was closed, only the dead are buried in the existing tombs [12]. There are three chapels in the cemetery, including the neo-Gothic chapel of Counts Sumiński and Ożegalski, where the owners of Słotwina were buried [13].
outside Brzesko
fields and hills