Mszanowo is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Nowe Miasto County __NOTOC__ Nowe Miasto County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passe ...

, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...

(administrative district) called

Gmina Nowe Miasto Lubawskie __NOTOC__ Gmina Nowe Miasto Lubawskie is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Nowe Miasto County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Mszanowo, which lies approximately north-east of Nowe Miasto Lub ...

. It lies approximately north-east of

Nowe Miasto Lubawskie Nowe Miasto Lubawskie (; ) is a town in northern Poland, situated on the Drwęca, River Drwęca. The total population in June 2018 was 11,062. Nowe Miasto Lubawskie is the capital of Nowe Miasto County in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Geogr ...

and south-west of the regional capital

Olsztyn Olsztyn ( , ) is a city on the Łyna River in northern Poland. It is the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, and is a city with powiat rights, city with county rights. The population of the city was estimated at 169,793 residents Olsz ...

Medieval History

Mszanowo was first mentioned in the year 1327, and was at that time referred to as "Wipsanow", in connection with a land grant by the Bishop of Chełmno, to Mikołaj of

Tylice, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship Tylice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, within Nowe Miasto County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately east of Mszanowo (the gmina seat), east of Nowe Miasto Luba ...

. The land was situated between Mikołaj’s existing estate and the Drwęca and Wel rivers. In 1546, the Chełmno district transferred the village to Bishop Tideman, and eight years later, Bishop Jan Lubodzieski of Chełmno returned the village to Chełmno.

References

{{Gmina Nowe Miasto Lubawskie Villages in Nowe Miasto County