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CZEMPIN

Commune Council
ul. 24 Stycznia 25
64-020 Czempin
tel. (061) 28 26 703
fax (061) 28 26 302
e-mail: czempin@agrotur.com.pl


Commune area: 142.5 km2
Population: 11474


The Commune of Czempin occupies an area of 142.2 km2, inhabited by 11,000 people. It includes the town of Czempin and 22 villages. Some important communication routes cross the commune, eg the railway line Poznan-Wroc3aw and the international road No 5 from Gdansk via Poznan, Wroc3aw to Prague.
At present, Czempin is a small centre of agriculture and food processing as well as handicraft. The seats of The "Agros" Czempin Agricultural Corporation plc, The Czempin Agriculture Co-operative Enterprise, The Poznan Cuisine plc in Jarogniewic are situated in the commune. An interesting scientific institution centre is the only in Poland Research Centre of the Polish Hunting Association.



MOST INTERESTING MONUMENTS


CZEMPIN

Market Square developed from an oval market settlement, surrounded with two-storey houses from the 19/20th century.

Erratic block with a plaque commemorating Florian Marciniak, erected in fron of the school building in 1982.

St Michael Archangel's Church built in 1895-99 in place of an earlier one, Neo-Romanesque style, with a tall tower. A Gothic sculpture of St Mary with the Infant Jesus (about 1420) in one of the altars in the type of Beautiful Madonnas.

Palace of the Szo3drski Family from the 18th century, thoroughly renovated in 1975-86, Baroque, with rich decorations of the elevation in the Regency style, sculptures symbolizing four parts of the world in the attic. Some monuments of nature in the well kept landscape park from the 18th century: three lindens with circumferences of 460-380 cm, an oak tree with a circumference of 460 cm and a chestnut tree with a circumference of 430 cm.

St Simon's, St Juda's and St Mary's of Czestochowa Palace Chapel from 1782, with a tower from the 19th century, at present a parish church.

BOROWO

Palace from the early 20th century in the shape of a Baroque villa. Many monumental trees in the landscape park: chestnut tree with a circumference of 410 cm, four oaks with circumferences of 380-320 cm. Col. J. Mojaczewski's obelisk, transferred from the palace, near the palace. The palace and park complex is the seat of The Plants Cultivation and Acclimatization Experimental Centre.

School from 1878, later extended, Neo-Gothic, outside a plaque commemorating Józef Wojciechowski from 1989.

GOLEBIN STARY

St Mary's Assumption Church from 1670, wooden construction, with a square tower from the west and a Neo-Renaissance Tomb Chapel of the Szo3drski Family from 1881.

Shrine with a Baroque St Jan Nepomucen's stone figure from about 1730, situated in the extensive landscape park from the 18th century.

Granary from the late 19th century, with a pinnacle and brickwork-wooden porch in the form a gallery, situated in the grange area.

School from the 1st half of the 19th century, later rebuilt, outside Florian Marciniak"s plaque from 1969.

GORZYCZKI

Palace from 1868, Neo-Renaissance, with a tower in the corner and a dining room with rich stucco decorations. Around it an extensive landscape park with many monuments of nature, like a plane-tree with a circumference of 650 cm, eight oaks with circumferences of 400-280 cm, two spires with circumferences of 215 and 125 cm and others.

Manor house from the 18th century, rebuilt in the 19th century with a display and a small portal.

GORZYCE

Erratic block with a plaque (1994) in the form of Polish scouts' cross, put in the place of a non-existing house - Florian Marciniak's (founder of the Polish scouts organization) place of birth.

JAROGNIEWICE

Palace from 1792, rebuilt in 1893-1904, French Classicistic style, a portico with columns in the front elevation. Two annexes adjoin the palace: one Neo-Baroque with a mansard roof and a pinnacle from 1904, the other is Classicistic, two-storey, with a forehead roof from 1792-90. A Neo-Gothic gardener"s house from the first quarter of the 19th century and a shrine with St Jan Nepomucen"s late Baroque figure from the second half of the 18th century in the landscape park from the 16/17th century. The palace and park complex is the seat of an institution for the blind.

PIOTRKOWICE

Manor house from 1820, rebuilt in 1872, Classicistic.

GLUCHOWO

St Catherine"s Church from 1751, extended in 1904, late Baroque with a four-sided tower on the west side and Neo-Baroque chapels. Inside fragments of late Gothic altars from the early 16th century: quarter with the depiction of St Apolonia's Martyrdom and a predella The Carrying the Cross. Many epitaph plaques outside.

Palace from the early 18th century, rebuilt in 1882, Classicistic, with a portico with columns from the 2nd half of the 18th century. Many trees with monumental sizes.