Wieleń
Sign in to saveWieleń is a town in Czarnków-Trzcianka County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. It is situated on the river Noteć.
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Place details
- Locality
- Wieleń
- Region
- województwo wielkopolskie
- Country
- Polska
- Population
- 6,067
- Timezone
- Europe/Warsaw
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Wieleń
- Settlement.image_flag
- POL Wieleń flag.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- POL Wieleń COA.svg
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Wieleń 269-50.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Sapieha Palace
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Poland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Greater Poland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Czarnków-Trzcianka
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
Key dates
- Inception
- 1108
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- German Reich
- Located in
- Gmina Wieleń
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- +5878
- Area
- +4.32
- Official website
- www.wielen.pl
- Image
- Wieleń 269-50.jpg
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Wieleń is a town in Czarnków-Trzcianka County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. It is situated on the river Noteć.
==History== thumb|left|19th-century view of the Sapieha Palace, the greatest historic landmark of Wieleń Part of Poland since the Middle Ages, Duke Władysław Odonic of Greater Poland brought the Cistercians to Wieleń in 1239. Wieleń was a private town of Polish nobility, including the Czarnkowski and Sapieha families, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. Zofia Czarnkowska erected the early Baroque Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and a hospital in Wieleń, and Piotr Paweł Sapieha built a Baroque palace.