Bełdno | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lesser Poland |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Bochnia |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Żegocina |
Coordinates: | 49.825°N 20.4°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 273 |
Website: | www.zegocina.pl |
Bełdno is a village and sołectwo in the administrative district of Gmina Żegocina, within Bochnia County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 3km (02miles) south-west of Żegocina, 190NaN0 south of Bochnia, and 430NaN0 south-east of the regional capital Kraków.[2]
The village was established in 1398 according to the Magdeburg rights. These days it is the smallest of the subdivisions of the gmina.[3]
By the road to Żegocina there is a wayside shrine to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour. It contains a statue of the Virgin that was rescued from the main hall of Kraków station during the upheavals of September 1939.[3]