Bredynki

{{Infobox settlement | name = Bredynki | settlement_type = Village | image_skyline = Bredynki, Kaplica św Rocha i Floriana, widok 2.jpg | image_caption = Saint Roch chapel in Bredynki | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{POL}} | subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship | subdivision_name1 = Warmian-Masurian | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Olsztyn | subdivision_type3 = Gmina | subdivision_name3 = Biskupiec | established_title = Founded | established_date = 1599 | coordinates = {{coord|53|54|N|21|3|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}} | pushpin_map = Poland | pushpin_label_position = bottom | elevation_m = | population_total = | registration_plate = NOL | blank_name_sec2 = Voivodeship roads | blank_info_sec2 = 32px }} '''Bredynki''' ({{IPAc-pl|b|r|e|'|d|y|n|k|i}}; {{langx|de|Bredinken}}) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biskupiec, within Olsztyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.{{TERYT}} It is situated in the historic region of Warmia.

==History== The village was founded in 1599 within the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772 it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in the First Partition of Poland. On 6 May 1863, the village was the site of a massacre of Polish inhabitants.<ref name=bg/> Local farmers protested the taking of the lake from the village and handing it over to a local miller.<ref name=bg>{{cite magazine|last=Groniewska|first=Barbara|year=1960|title=Rola Prus Wschodnich w powstaniu styczniowym|magazine=Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie|language=pl|issue=1|pages=13–14}}</ref> Prussian troops fired on the crowd, killing more than a dozen people, including women, and wounding 30.<ref name=bg/> In 1884, the Saint Roch chapel was built by the local people to commemorate the victims.

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Category:Villages in Olsztyn County Category:1590s establishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Category:Populated places established in 1599 Category:Massacres of Poles