Brzeźnica

Brzeźnica stood on an old trade route through the Sieradz country, near a crossing of the Pisia. In 1265 Duke Leszek the Black authorized a new settlement on land cleared from birch forest beside the older town. The urban center moved to Nowa Brzeźnica in 1287, closer to the ford, while Stara Brzeźnica remained a village. In the fifteenth century Franciscans from Radomsko took refuge here after fires and wars damaged their monastery, returning to Radomsko in 1543.