page_title: Brzeg
section_title: Main sights
hierarchical_section_title: Brzeg / Main sights
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Brzeg - Most Piastowski English: Brzeg - Piastowski Bridge
context_page_description: Brzeg is a town in southwestern Poland with 35,890 inhabitants and the capital of Brzeg County. It is situated in Silesia in the Opole Voivodeship on the left bank of the Oder river.
  The town of Brzeg was first mentioned as a trading and fishing settlement in the year 1234. In 1248, Silesian Duke Henry III the White granted the settlement German town rights and by the late 13th century the city became fortified. Sometimes referred to as “the garden town”, the town's size greatly expanded after the construction of dwelling houses which were located on the city outskirts. From the early 14th to late 17th centuries, the town was ruled by the Piast dynasty as fiefs of the Bohemian Crown within the Holy Roman Empire, and became a German town. The town became Prussian as the result of the Silesian Wars. After the border shifts of 1945, the town was ethnically cleansed and became part of Poland.
context_section_description: The Renaissance Brzeg Town Hall (Rynek), surrounded by thirteenth-century townhouses.
  Old Castle (Zamek), with an interesting adorned façade, host of the Muzeum Piastów Śląskich. The Brzeg Castle is referred to as the Silesian Wawel. The castle-complex includes the Chapel of St. Jadwiga of Poland.
  St. Nicholas's Church (Gothic architectural style).
  Holy Cross Church (on old castle square), (Baroque architectural style).
  St. Jadwiga's Church, located by the castle.
  St. Luke's Church, a church built in the Neoclassical architectural style.
  Saints Peter and Paul Church, a Franciscan church built in the thirteen-century.
  Baroque figures of John of Nepomuk and Jude the Apostle from 1722, standing by the façade of the Holy Cross Church.
  Statue of the Holy Trinity (on old castle square), raised in 1731.
  Piast Gimnasium (Gimnazium Piastowskie) founded in 1569.
  Odrzańska Gate, part of the former fortifications; located in the Park Odrzański (Odranian Park).
  Water tower (Wieża ciśnień) by Rybacka Street (ul. Rybacka), from 1877.
  Residential townhouses:
  Rynek 19, Renaissance façade from 1621 (reconstruction).
  Chopina 1, Renaissance from 1597.
  Jabłkowa 5, Baroque townhouse from 1715.
  Jabłkowa 7, Empire architectural style from 1797.
  Old Garrison buildings (Stare Koszary) from the Frederick the Great colonisation period.
  Planty - remaining bastion fortifications around the medieval town. The fortifications were deconstructed in 1807, with the area transformed into the Planty Park.
  Synagogue from 1799.
  River Boat Station (Brzeg Marina) (on the east bank of the Oder), built in 2012.
caption: Piastowski Bridge
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