Leniewo

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Leniewo is a small village in north-eastern Poland. It is in Gmina Czyże, Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship. The village was founded around 1540 on the farm of Żuk Leniewicz, the first settler. From the 17th century there have been manor houses; at the end of that century the manor belonged to Wacław na Jeruzalach Jaruzelski (Ślepowron coat of arms) and, by the end of the 18th century, to Wojciech Szepietowski (also Ślepowron). After 1800 a brick chapel with a tiled roof was built near the manor, and the place came to be known as Leniewo Sady. A church record from 1775 shows Leniewo had 109 people living in 28 houses. In the 1921 census, the village had 157 residents: 2 Roman Catholics, 149 Orthodox, 6 Jewish; 11 declared Polish nationality and 146 Belarusian. There were 36 houses. Today Leniewo has about 83 inhabitants.