Lewin Brzeski [ˈlɛvʲin ˈbʐɛskʲi] ⓘ (German: Löwen; Silesian: Lwy) is a historic town situated in Brzeg County, Opole Voivodeship, southwestern Poland.

Located along the medieval trade routes from Silesia to Hungary,[2] by the Amber Road and the Eastern Neisse river, the town of Lewin first developed in the Middle Ages as a market town, located within the Piast-ruled Kingdom of Poland and as a result of the fragmentation of Poland it became part of the duchies of Opole, Brzeg and Legnica.

The town was built around a rectangular marketplace, and surrounded by a rampart with a palisade with a ditch below it that could, if necessary, through the opening of a lock could be filled with water from the Eastern Neisse.

In 1333 the town was granted new rights and privileges, such as the brewing of beer and the holding of Wednesday markets, by Duke Bolesław III the Generous.

[4] In the final stages of World War II, in January 1945, the Germans evacuated most of the population, leaving only the elderly in the town, and recruited many inhabitants into the Volkssturm.

[4] Following the flight and expulsion of Germans during and after World War II, the town was transferred to Polish control and its historic name Lewin was restored, with the adjective Brzeski added after the nearby city of Brzeg.

It was repopulated by Poles expelled from former eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union, in particular from pre-war southeastern Polish regions of Stanisławów and Lwów.

In the years 1950–1953 a secret anti-communist organization Podziemny Orzeł Wolności ("Underground Eagle of Freedom") operated in the town.

[11][12] Surrounding the town there are five former gravel pits, now infilled by water, are a popular attraction for locals and people in the region alike.