Zheleznitsa (Brest region)

The village is located 16 km north-west from the center of Baranavichy . The area belongs to the Neman basin, through the village flows the river Myshanka (tributary Shchary ). The Gorodishche -Baranavichy highway passes through the village, the road to Mitskevichi branches off from it in Zheleznitsa. The nearest railway station Mordychi (line Baranavichy - Lida ) is located 6 km from the village.

The estate is known from the middle of the XV century, when it belonged to the Sapieha . In the first half of the 16th century, it passed to the Kezgaylo family, which soon died away. Later belonged to Chodkiewicz , Zavisham . In 1763, the estate was bought by Joseph Kashchits, Mstislavsky kravchy ^[2] .

After the second section of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1793), the town became part of the Russian Empire.

For participation in the uprising of 1830, the estate was confiscated from Kaschitsey and was transferred to the Volskys. In 1839 the Orthodox Holy Protection Church was built (died during the Great Patriotic War) ^[3] . In the second half of the XIX century, Wolskie rebuilt and expanded the estate, in particular, they erected an ancestral tomb at the Catholic cemetery ^[2] .

According to the Riga Peace Treaty (1921), the village became part of interwar Poland , where it belonged to the Baranavichy district of Novogrudok voivodship . Since 1939, the village in the BSSR .

• The tomb of Wolski. The only surviving building from the former noble estate. The chapel is in an abandoned and partially destroyed state.

• Zheleznitsa on the site globus.tut.by
• Zheleznitsa on the site radzima.org