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KSI!? WIELKOPOLSKI

Town Council
ul. Wichury 11a
63-130 Ksi?? Wlkp.
tel. (061) 28 22 017
fax (061) 28 22 724
e-mail: ksiazwlkp@agrotur.com.pl

Commune area: 147.9 km2
Population: 8547


The town has well developed crafts and services. In Ksi?? Wlkp.'s vicinity rich deposits of clay were found. These resources present good conditions for the development of ceramic industry and an economic boom. The exploitation of these resources depends on investing large financial means.



MOST INTERESTING MONUMENTS


KSI!?

St Mary's Assumption Church from 1755, extended in 1948-49, with a tower from 1981, Baroque, with more modern interior decorations. Next to the church, St Lawrence stone figure on a socle from the late 19th century.

Presbytery from 1847, extended in 1983.

St Antony's Church from the late 18th century, rebuilt in 1914, Neo-Baroque tower with a clock. It used to be a Lutheran church.

Market Square (pl. Kosynierów) surrounded with houses from the turn of the 20th century. In its central part, the monument (1948) of executed inhabitants in 1939. On one of the buildings, a plaque (1935) commemorating Major Florian D?browski, commander-in-chief of the insurgent's camp in Ksi?? in 1848.

Graves of the insurgents fallen in the battle of Ksi?? in 1848 - in the form of two mounds with crosses, overgrown with pines, the monument of Polish insurgents (scythemen) from 1948 between them.

Graveyard with tombstones: insurgents fallen in 1848, Wielkopolska insurgents (1929) and the victims of the execution (1988) on the Market Square in Ksi?? Wlkp. in 1939.

CHWA?KOWO KO|CIELNE

St Michael Archangel Church from 1819, in place of a former, wooden one, with a Neo-Gothic choir (1891) and tower (1904). The interior decorations include among other things fragments of a late Gothic bas-relief with The Greeting of Three Wise Men and a predella with the scene of Laying to the Grave from about 1500.

Manor house from the first half of the 19th century with an annex from the early 20th century.

Inn from the first half of the 19th century, in 1900 converted into a family house.

Wielkopolska Insurgents Monument with the figure of Jesus' Heart in the graveyard.

CHRZ!STOWO

Manor house from about 1850, in 1954 converted into a school. Around it, a partly preserved landscape park with old trees. Near the grange buildings three impressive oaks with circumferences of 610-450 cm.

GOGOLEWO

Holy Cross Heightening Church from 1779, wooden construction, with uniform Baroque interior decorations. Next to the church, a wooden shingle-covered belfry from the late 18th century.

Manor house from the 18th century with a forehead roof and a more modern porch.

Shrine with St Jan Nepomucen's Baroque wooden figure from the 18th century.

JAROS?AWKI

Manor house from the third quarter of the 19th century, rebuilt in the early 20th century, with a small landscape park.

KO?ACIN

Manor house from 1912, later converted into a family house.

Windmill from the late 18th century.

MCHY

St Martin's Church from 1575-1616, late Renaissance, with a tall Baroque tower with a clock. Inside a late Renaissance wall tombstone of Stanis3aw and Katarzyna Sapinski (after 1588) and a plaque commemorating Archbishop Antoni Baraniak (1977).

Palace from the late 18th century, Classicistic, with a portico with columns and richly stucco decorated interiors, at present a school. Around it, a landscape park from the early 19th century with monumental trees, eg a red beech with a circumference of 310 cm, a maple plane - 320 cm and an ash-tree - 307 cm.

Shrine with St Lawrence's Baroque figure and St Jan Nepomucen bas-relief.

W?O|CIEJEWKI

St Mary's Immaculate Conception Church from the early 16th century, late Gothic, with a stair gable from the front elevation. The painting of St Mary's with the Infant Jesus from the mid 18th century in the Neo-Gothic main altar. The painting is believed to be miraculous. In the eclectic chapel a plaque (1883) commemorating the 200th anniversary of the battle of Vienna. Outside, a built-in stone with footprints, connected with many legends.

Manor house of the Niegolewski family from the first quarter of the 19th century, extended with one wing at the end of the 19th century. Around the house, a landscape park from the late 16/17th century with monumental trees, like two plane-trees with circumferences of 490 and 320 cm, eight oaks with circumferences of 590-320 cm, four lindens with circumferences of 480-340 cm and many others.

Former late medieval settlement, conical, with traces of walls of the manor house of the Pasikon-W3o?ciejewski family, on it a birch with a circumference of 480 cm and a willow with a circumference of 440 cm.

ZABOROWO

Manor house from the late 19th century with a landscape park.