Brwinów

Brwinów
Town Hall
Coat of arms
Brwinów
Coordinates: 52°8′30″N 20°43′0″E / 52.14167°N 20.71667°E / 52.14167; 20.71667Coordinates: 52°8′30″N 20°43′0″E / 52.14167°N 20.71667°E / 52.14167; 20.71667
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	Pruszków
Gmina	Brwinów
Established	15th century
Town rights	1950
Government
• Mayor	Arkadiusz Kosiński
Area
• Total	10.06 km2 (3.88 sq mi)
Population  (2008)
• Total	12,131
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	05-840
Area code(s)	+48 22
Website	www.brwinow.pl

Brwinów [ˈbrvʲinuf] is a town in Pruszków County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, about 25 km (16 mi) from the centre of Warsaw; according to the 2014 records Brwinów has approximately 13,178 inhabitants.

Until 1954 Brwinów was the location of the Helenów parish council and between 1917 and 1949 it was also Letnisko-Brwinów's major town.

Between 1975 and 1998 Brwinów belonged to Warsaw Voivodeship. The town is located on the Łowicz–Błonie plains.

April 13, 2014 host Warsaw Eagles - Angels Toruń exhibition football game.^[1][2]

Brwinów is served by the Brwinów Railway Station.

Famous people[]

• , writer, editor "Twórczość" and essayist in "Newsweek"
• Leszek Engelking, poet, translator
• Henryk Waniek, painter
• Wacław Kowalski, actor
• , naturalist
• , architect
• Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, writer, poet
• Aleksander Werner, painter, sculptor
• , physist, teacher

Demography[]

External links[]

• Jewish Community in Brwinów on Virtual Shtetl