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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Bledzew
| settlement_type = Village
| image_skyline = BledzewMarket2(js).jpg
| image_caption = Main square
| image_flag =
| image_shield =
| image_map =
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Lubusz Voivodeship|Lubusz]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Międzyrzecz County|Międzyrzecz]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Bledzew|Bledzew]]
| coordinates = {{coord|52|31|N|15|24|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = right
| elevation_m =
| population_total = 1300
| registration_plate = FMI
}}
'''Bledzew''' {{IPAc-pl|'|b|l|e|dz|e|f}} is a [[village]] and former [[town]] in [[Międzyrzecz County]], [[Lubusz Voivodeship]], in western Poland. It is the seat of the [[gmina]] (administrative district) called [[Gmina Bledzew]].{{TERYT}}

==Geography==
The settlement lies on the western rim of the [[Greater Poland]] historic region on the left bank of the [[Obra (river)|Obra]] river, a tributary of the [[Warta]], and is surrounded by numerous lakes and extended forests. It is located approximately {{convert|15|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} north-west of [[Międzyrzecz]], {{convert|27|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-east of [[Gorzów Wielkopolski]], and {{convert|65|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} north of [[Zielona Góra]].

==History==
[[File:Bledzew Kościół i klasztor-1843.jpg|thumb|left|Cistercian abbey]]
As part of the region of [[Greater Poland]], i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed part of Poland since its establishment in the 10th century. The settlement was established in the 1230s by the [[Piast dynasty|Piast]] duke [[Władysław Odonic]], then ruling over the [[History of Poland during the Piast dynasty|Polish]] duchy of [[Duchy of Greater Poland|Greater Poland]]. In the early 14th century, the [[House of Ascania|Ascanian]] margrave [[Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal|Waldemar]] of [[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]] occupied the Bledzew area and granted it to the [[Cistercians|Cistercian]] monks at [[Zemsko, Lubusz Voivodeship|Zemsko]]; it nevertheless was reconquered by the Polish king [[Władysław I the Elbow-high]] in 1326 and incorporated into the [[Poznań Voivodeship (14th century – 1793)|Poznań Voivodeship]] of the [[Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Kingdom of Poland]].

After the Cistercian monks moved their seat to Bledzew in 1407,<ref name=sgk>{{cite book|author=|title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom I|year=1880|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=242}}</ref> the citizens were vested with [[town privileges]] according to [[Magdeburg law]] by King [[Casimir IV Jagiellon]] in 1458, confirmed by his successor [[John I Albert]] in 1493. Bledzew was [[private town|private church town]], administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the [[Greater Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Greater Poland Province]].<ref>{{cite book|author= |title=Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany|year=2017|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Instytut Historii [[Polish Academy of Sciences|Polskiej Akademii Nauk]]|page=1a}}</ref> In 1736, abbot Benedykt Gurowski expanded the monastery.<ref name=sgk/> In the course of the [[Second Partition of Poland]] in 1793, Bledzew was annexed by the [[Kingdom of Prussia]]. After the successful [[Greater Poland uprising (1806)|Greater Poland uprising of 1806]], it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived [[Duchy of Warsaw]], and after the duchy's dissolution in 1815, the village was reannexed by Prussia, within which it was incorporated into the [[Grand Duchy of Posen]]. The Cistercian abbey was [[Secularization|secularised]] in 1835. From 1871, it formed part of Germany. After [[World War II]] with the implementation of the [[Oder-Neisse line]] it returned to the [[People's Republic of Poland|Republic of Poland]] and the remaining German population was [[Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II|expelled]] in accordance with the [[Potsdam Agreement]].

== External links ==
* [http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/city/bledzew/ Jewish Community in Bledzew] on Virtual Shtetl

==References==
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{{Gmina Bledzew}}

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[[Category:Populated riverside places in Poland]]
[[Category:Villages in Międzyrzecz County]]

Bledzew - Revision history

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