Bredynki | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Warmian-Masurian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Olsztyn |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Biskupiec |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 1599 |
Coordinates: | 53.9°N 24°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Registration Plate: | NOL |
Blank Name Sec2: | Voivodeship roads |
Bredynki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biskupiec, within Olsztyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 9km (06miles) north-east of Biskupiec and 390NaN0 east of the regional capital Olsztyn. It is situated in the historic region of Warmia.
The village was founded in 1599 within the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772 it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in the First Partition of Poland. On 6 May 1863, the village was the site of a massacre of Polish inhabitants. Local farmers protested the taking of the lake from the village and handing it over to a local miller.[2] Prussian troops fired on the crowd, killing more than a dozen people, including women, and wounding 30.[2] In 1884, the Saint Roch chapel was built by the local people to commemorate the victims.