Brzezie (German: Hohenbirken) is a dzielnica (district) of Racibórz, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.

It became a seat of a Catholic parish in Żory deanery of Diocese of Wrocław, established probably in the second half of the 13th century,[1] first mentioned in 1335 as Birkindorf in an incomplete register of Peter's Pence payment composed by Galhard de Carceribus.

[2] Politically the village belonged initially to the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz, within feudally fragmentated Poland, ruled by a local branch of the Silesian Piast dynasty.

From 1521, it was part of the reunited Duchy of Opole and Racibórz, remaining under the Piast dynasty until 1532, when it was integrated with Habsburg-ruled Bohemian Crown.

During the German occupation, the occupiers operated three forced labour subcamps (E414, E415, E550) of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village.