Bełsznica

Bełsznica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gorzyce, within Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the Czech border.

Location
Geographically, Bełsznica lies near the hills of the Rybnik Plateau. From the hill located 256m above sea level one can see the valleys of the Olza and Odra rivers, as well as the Moravian Gate. Historically, the village is located in Upper Silesia. In the village there also lies the Bełsznica Train Stop. It lies approximately 4 km north-west of Gorzyce, 7 km west of Wodzisław Śląski, and 55 km south-west of the regional capital Katowice.

Naming
The name of the village probably comes from a plant of the same name. In an alphabetical list of towns released in Wrocław in 1830 by Johann Georg Knie the village is named in German as Belschnitz and in Polish Belśnice.