Węgrzynowice w is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the administrative district of Gmina Budziszewice

Gmina Budziszewice

Gmina Budziszewice is a rural gmina in Tomaszów Mazowiecki County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the village of Budziszewice, which lies approximately north of Tomaszów Mazowiecki and east of the regional capital Łódź.The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total...

, within Tomaszów Mazowiecki County

Tomaszów Mazowiecki County

Tomaszów Mazowiecki County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and only town is Tomaszów Mazowiecki,...

, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north-east of Budziszewice, 21 km (13 mi) north of Tomaszów Mazowiecki

Tomaszów Mazowiecki

Tomaszów Mazowiecki is a town in central Poland with 67,159 inhabitants . Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship , it was previously part of Piotrków Trybunalski Voivodeship...

, and 36 km (22 mi) east of the regional capital Łódź.

Węgrzynowice is famous as the birthplace of 17th-century szlachta

Szlachta

The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of...

 soldier and writer Jan Chryzostom Pasek

Jan Chryzostom Pasek

Jan Chryzostom Pasek was a Polish nobleman and writer in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He is best remembered for his memoirs , which are a valuable historical source about Baroque sarmatian culture and events in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.Born in Węgrzynowice near Rawa Mazowiecka in...

, who is said to have written his memoirs there. The place where his manor once stood is now occupied by a 18th century wooden manor, surrounded by a romantic park.