Podkowa Le na [p t k va l na] (literal meaning - "Horseshoe Grove", in full: Miasto-ogród Podkowa Le na - "Garden-City Podkowa Le na") is a town in Grodzisk Mazowiecki County (Masovian Voivodeship) of Poland and located on the owicko B o ska Plain within the territory of the M ochowskie Forests. City status - from January 1, 1969. The city holds also the status of gmina, meaning "commune". Population - ca. 4000. Founded in 1925. On September 1, 1939 bombs fell on Podkowa Le na that the Luftwaffe had intended for Warsaw. On January 17, 1945 the Soviets entered Podkowa Le na. Forests surround the city from three sides (the east, the south, and the north). Grodzisk Mazowiecki County (Polish: powiat grodziski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.