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Lewin Brzeski is a town in the Brzeg district and the seat of the Lewin Brzeski urban-rural municipality. Currently, it is inhabited by approx. 5.8 thousand people. The town is located in the Silesian Lowland, on the Nysa Kłodzka river. Lewin obtained its town charter before 1284, thanks to Bogusz from Pogorzela – the first owner. Until 1675, the town belonged to the Duchy of Legnica-Brzeg, from 1329 as a fief of the Bohemian Crown. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Lewin Brzeski was under the rule of the Austrian Habsburgs, and in the following century, as a result of the Silesian Wars – with most of Silesia – it passed under Prussian rule. After World War II, the town was incorporated into Poland. The greatest monuments of Lewin include the Baroque palace from the second half of the 18th century, which currently houses a school, the 19th-century town hall building, and the 16th-century Evangelical Church of St. Peter and St. Paul with a 14th-century portal and a collection of stone tombstones of the Beess family. The historic urban layout with the preserved medieval street layout has also survived in the town.