Brodnica is a village in à Ârem County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Brodnica.
Brodnica was first mentioned in medieval documents in 1230, when it was part of fragmented Piast-ruled Poland. It was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Koà Âcian County in the Poznaà  Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. It was the ancestral home of the Brodnicki family of à Âodzia coat of arms.
Polish jurist, poet, political and military activist Józef Wybicki, best known as the author of the lyrics of the national anthem of Poland, was buried in the village before his remains were relocated to the Church of St. Adalbert in Poznaà  in the interbellum. Wybicki's old gravestone is preserved and his wife is still buried in Brodnica. Other landmarks of Brodnica are the Maà Âkowski Palace with the adjacent park and the Saint Catherine church.