Boczków - Boczków

Bacon is a village located in the southern part Greater Poland Voivodeship, in you will say Ostrów, in the northern part of the commune Nowe Skalmierzyce. The village is located about 2 kilometers north of New Skalmierzyce by the district road Skalmierzyce - Biskupice. With about 400 inhabitants, the characteristic old buildings are interesting - the red brick buildings stretch along the main road crossing the village.

Worth seeing

The village has been known since 1403.

• The main attraction is Court from the mid-nineteenth century, which was later expanded. It is built on a T-shaped plan, with a four-column front portico and a central wing on the south side. The condition of the building itself can be described as a progressive ruin, getting worse every year. Directly adjacent to the building landscaped park with an area of ​​1.7 ha and the remains of a farm with buildings from the end of the 19th century.

• At the main intersection there is statue in 1982, at the place of death Jan Mertka, a soldier of the Border Battalion from Szczypiorno near Kalisz. He was shot by the Germans on December 27, 1918, a few hours before the outbreak of the Greater Poland Uprising. In response to the attack, the Poles took Boczków, which became the first liberated town in Greater Poland.

Descriptions of the above historic buildings come from the Natural and Sightseeing Map "Powiat Ostrowski" (author: Paweł Dolata) and from the website of Galeria Wielkopolska p. Aleksander Lieberta [1].