Czeszewo (Września County) - Czeszewo (powiat wrzesiński)

Czeszewo
Forest Education Center in Czeszewo, Jarocin Forest District
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Country	Poland
Region	Greater Poland Voivodeship
Population	720
Area code	( 48) 61
Postal Code	62-322 Orzechowo Post Office

Czeszewo - village in Poland, located in Greater Poland Voivodeship, in Września poviat, in the commune of Miłosław; 20 km southwest of September. Known for the historic wooden church of St. Nicholas from 1792, a former inn from the 18th century and a forester's lodge from the end of the 19th century. It is located in the Żerków-Czeszewski Landscape Park.

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History

The first mention of the village Cessewo can be found in a document from 1257, Czeszewo is a former duke's estate, which was then in the hands of the knight Janek of the Zaremba coat of arms, successively the voivode and castellan of Kalisz, and finally the voivode of Poznań. The Zaremb family were closely related to Prince Bolesław the Pious, who gave Janek Czeszewo with people and forests. The owners changed frequently, at the end of the 18th century the owner of the village was Prince Antoni Barnaba Jabłonowski, the voivode of Poznań and the last castellan of Kraków, who resided here until 1808 (then he moved to the nearby Mikuszewo). From 1808, Czeszewo was owned by the Prince of Orange, in 1838 - by the Dutch king, and at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries - by the princes of Saxony-Meiningen. Foreign owners led to the settlement of the Germans, who in 1880 constituted 20% of the population.

On December 8, 1918, the local parish priest, Fr. Franciszek Nowak proclaimed the founding of the Republic of Czeszew, and after the outbreak of the Greater Poland Uprising (December 27), he mobilized and dragged "his army" to September.

During World War II, the Germans displaced Poles in the town. On January 17, 1940, the Gestapo and the German Police displaced 15 Polish farmers, settling German colonists on their farms as part of the German colonization action "Heim ins Reich".

In the years 1975-1998, the town belonged administratively to the then Poznań Province.

Geography

Czeszewo is located on the Września Plain (315.56), a physico-geographic mesoregion in the central-west Poland, constituting the southern part of the Greater Poland Lake District. The town is located on the right bank of the Warta River.

Climate

The region is influenced by the oceanic air masses, which contributes to the mild climate. The area is located in the agri-climate district of Wielkopolska and Silesia. The average annual temperature is around 8 ° C. The growing season is one of the longest in Poland. Annual rainfall ranges from 500 to 550 mm. The town can be visited at any time of the year.

Historical monuments

• Wooden church

St. Nicholas in Czeszewo - a historic wooden parish church in Czeszew, in the Września poviat, in the Greater Poland voivodship. Built in 1792, funded by the castellan of Kraków, Antoni Jabłonowski, by the carpenter, Johan Adam. Renovated after World War II. Oriented, single-nave church with carcass construction. The presbytery is narrower than the nave, closed on three sides with a side sacristy on the north side. A porch by the nave from the south. A two-ridge roof, shingled with a four-sided turret for a spire, topped with a baroque tin cupola with a lantern. Inside, a flat ceiling is common for the nave and the chancel. The main altar and two side late baroque altars from the end of the 18th century. In front of the presbytery there is a rood beam with a Passion group with late Gothic figures from the first half of the 16th century, a late Baroque crucifix from the end of the 18th century and the date of construction 1792. Inside there is a baptismal font and a confessional from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, a late Gothic sculpture of the Mother of God with a Child from approx. 1440, epitaph of an insurgent Juliusz Łukaszewicz who died in the Battle of Książ in 1848. A musical choir from the main entrance. Polychrome from the beginning of the 20th century with floral ornaments and representations (in medallions) of Saint Wojciech and Stanisław. A free-standing wooden belfry - stand - from around 1792, covered with a shingled gable roof. Near the church, a rectory from 1843 and a parish house from 1931.

• A historic half-timbered inn (plastered) from the end of the 18th century at the main intersection (now an inn).
• The Forest Education Center (manor house) in Czeszewo is located in a historic, historical building. In the 19th century it was a salt warehouse on the Warta River. Then it housed the office of the Prussian Forest Inspectorate, and from 1918 the office and seat of the State Forest Inspectorate in Czeszewo.

The adaptation of the building of the former State Forest Inspectorate in Czeszewo allowed for the creation of a modern educational center.

Therapeutic activities

In 1975, sources of curative thermal waters were discovered in Czeszewo. In 1989, the Society for the Use of Thermal Waters and Natural Values ​​of the Czeszew Region was established, the aim of which was to use the healing properties of water for the rehabilitation of the disabled. On December 1, 2003, on the initiative of the Society for the Use of Thermal Waters and Natural Values ​​of the Czeszew Region, an Occupational Therapy Workshop was launched in Czeszewo Joy for 30 mentally and physically disabled people from the area of ​​the Miłosław commune. On June 1, 2006, the Society launched the Horse Hippotherapy and Rehabilitation Center in Czeszewo for children and adolescents up to 25 years of age from the Września poviat.

Nature

On the left bank of the Warta there are magnificent riparian forests, classified as one of the most interesting forest complexes in Greater Poland. It is also there the nature reserve "Czeszewski Las" (with an area of ​​222.62 ha), created in 2004 from the merger of the existing reserves: "Lutynia" and "Czeszewo" and the areas located between them. You can get to the reserve by a ferry running at the southern edge of the village. Near the crossing, on the left bank of the Warta, in the vicinity of oaks with a trunk circumference of up to 620 cm, there is a boulder with a plaque from 1999 reminding that Henryk Sienkiewicz was there in 1899. , established in 1994 on the area of ​​15 640 ha.

contact

There is no tourist information point in the Miłosław commune. Matters of promotion are managed by the Department of Promotion and Culture of the Poviat Staroste in Września, ul. Chopin 10, room. 110, phone: 61 640-44-95.

Where next

In the immediate vicinity of Czeszewo, there are the following towns, which can be another destination:

• Miłosław - a city known for the biggest battle fought during the Greater Poland Uprising in 1848 (Spring of Nations), the first statue of Juliusz Słowacki in Poland from 1899 and as a place of presenting the Kościelski Prize - Polish literary award, awarded since 1962 by the Foundation. Kościelski, the former owners of the town. Located partly in the Żerków-Czeszewski Landscape Park,
• Bugaj - a place known for the historic Hunting Castle "Bażantarnia" from the 19th century, located in the Żerków-Czeszewski Landscape Park,
• Sarnice - a forest settlement in the Czeszewsko-Miłosławskie forests, near Orzechowo, the "Dwunastak" nature reserve (area 9.12 ha) nearby, protecting a natural complex with the features of low-hornbeam forest, riparian forest and mixed forest. In the village, a small monument commemorating three Soviet scouts who died here in the fall of 1944, surrounded by a German raid (their bodies were buried in a mass grave in the cemetery in Czeszewo),
• Pyzdry - a royal city, founded in 1257, known from the battle of Poles with the Teutonic Knights in 1331 and the victory of the insurgent troops of the January 1863 Uprising with the Russian army. In the years 1817-1918 the westernmost city of the Russian Empire; seat of the regional museum,
• Winna Góra - a place associated with Jan Henryk Dąbrowski - a general, participant in the Kościuszko Uprising, creator of the Polish Legions in Italy, who died and rests in this town. The baroque palace from 1760-1770 and the baroque church of St. Michael from 1766 with the Dąbrowski crypt,
• Środa Wielkopolska - a poviat town, known for its land assemblies for the former Poznań and Kalisz voivodeships, which took place here from 1419 to the partitions; the preserved historic urban layout of the old town, the late-gothic parish collegiate church from around 1423-28 and the narrow-gauge Średzka Poviat Railway,
• Śmiełów - a place known for its classicist palace from the 18th century, which was hosted in 1831 by Adam Mickiewicz - considered the greatest poet of Polish Romanticism; the seat of the Adam Mickiewicz Museum (branch of the National Museum in Poznań) is located in the Żerków-Czeszewski Landscape Park.

Education

There is a Primary School in Czeszewo. Jan Bogumił Sokołowski

Boarding

The inn - "Oberża" in the center of the village, at the main road crossing, is a historic half-timbered inn (plastered), probably built at the end of the 18th century. Greater Poland. After 1970, it was thoroughly renovated and modernized (the original eyelid window above the entrance and the chimney above the ridge were removed), received a stylish interior and still serves as an inn called "Oberża".

Security

Health

The nearest hospital is the County Hospital in Września, ul. Słowackiego 2, tel. 61 437-05-00.

Police

The nearest Police Station is in Miłosław at Pałczyńska Street.

Fire brigade

There is a Volunteer Fire Brigade in Czeszewo, which is located at Słoneczna Street.