Bratków, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Bratków is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bogatynia, within Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is located in a Polish salient between the Czech Republic and Germany.

It lies approximately 10 km north of Bogatynia, 17 km south of Zgorzelec, and 148 km west of the regional capital Wrocław.

History
In the Early Middle Ages, Bratków was a stronghold of the Bieżuńczanie tribe, one of the Polish tribes. Since the 11th century, the settlement was under Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Saxon rule, and from 1871 to 1945 it was also part of Germany. After the defeat of Germany in World War II in 1945, it became again part of Poland.