Hnesna

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Hnesna

Hnesna ( Belarus. Гнезна ; Russian Гнезно [ Gnezno ], Polish Gniezno like the archbishop's town ) is a "town-like" agricultural settlement ( Agragaradok ) in Belarus near the Polish border. It is the core of the district council of the same name with 523 inhabitants in the Waukawysk district of Woblasć Hrodna .

history

Archangel Michael Church

The place has been known since the 15th century and initially belonged to the Lithuanian noble family of Moniwids . As a manor (Dworaz) Gniasdo (дворац Гняздо) it came into the hands of the Lithuanian Grand Duke and Polish King Casimir IV. Andrew , who in 1449 sold it to a Mikołaj Waschtschilowitsch. Between 1524 and 1527 Jan and Elisabeth Szemiotów had the Catholic Church of Archangel Michael built. In the 17th to 19th centuries, the place had the status of a market town (Miasteczko). With the third partition of Poland , he came to the Russian Empire in 1795 . The Gothic brick church was burned down by Napoleon's troops in 1812. During the reconstruction in 1839 the nave got neo-Gothic features. With the Peace of Riga between the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Russia , Gniezno came to Poland in 1921, with the defeat of Poland in the Second World War in 1940, it became part of the Soviet Union and within the same part of the Byelorussian Soviet Republic . Hnesna has belonged to the Republic of Belarus since the collapse of the Soviet Union .

Church of the Archangel Michael, 1524–1527 and 1839, tower and core structure Belarusian Gothic , nave neo-Gothic
Tarasovich mansion, around 1835

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