Brochów | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Masovian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Sochaczew |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Brochów |
Coordinates: | 52.3228°N 20.2661°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Elevation M: | 70.0 |
Population Total: | 400 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | WSC |
Brochów is a village (population 400) in Sochaczew County, Masovian Voivodeship, central Poland. It is the seat of Gmina Brochów[1] and lies some 11km (07miles) north of Sochaczew and 520NaN0 west of Warsaw.
It was in the church at Brochów that Nicolas Chopin and Justyna Krzyżanowska, parents of future composer Frédéric Chopin, were married on 2 June 1806. Frédéric was baptized there on 23 April 1810.
During the Invasion of Poland in World War II, on 15 September 1939, Brochów was the site of a successful cavalry charge against German infantry by the 17th Greater Poland Uhlan Regiment.