Brzesko

Brzesko is a metropolis in southern Poland, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It lies about 25 kilometers west of Tarnow and 50 kilometers east of the nearby capital Krakow. Since Polish administrative reorganization, Brzesko has been the administrative capital of Brzesko County in Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Before reorganization it became a part of Tarnow Voivodeship 1975 to 1998. As of 2008, its populace became 16,828. Historically, the town changed into difficulty of various ownerships given that its 1385 founding. Okocim Brewery, founded by way of Jan Goetz in 1845, is positioned in nearby Okocim 3 km.

The city changed into based in 1385 with the aid of Spytko II of Melsztyn, the castellan of Biecz, with permission of Queen Jadwiga of Poland. Brzesko still retains the medieval shape of its city middle, with a market rectangular and the Gothic church of St. Jacob. In 1440, the metropolis built a hospital for the terrible, funded by Gregory of Sanok. Until 1772 Brzesko belonged to Krakow Voivodeship and then it changed into annexed via Austria and became a part of Galicia to which it belonged until 1918. Before that, in 1856, Brzesko got a rail station, alongside a line from Krakow to Lwow.