Janków Zalesny - Janków Zaleśny

Janków Zalesny is a village of about 550 inhabitants, located in Greater Poland Voivodeship, in the western part Ostrów County and in the southwest Raszków commune.

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The first mention of the village dates back to 1246 - known as Iancovo - property of the archbishopric of Gniezno. From the second half of the 15th century, a royal village in the Odolanów starosty. A small river flows through the village Kuroch.

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It is located about 15 km west of Ostrów Wielkopolski and is situated by the district road Raszków - Daniszyn.

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Worth seeing

• Eclectic St. Wojciech from 1905-1908, brick, neo-Romanesque, basilica on the plan of a Latin cross, from the east a stepped portico and a four-sided tower with a spire; the presbytery is closed in a semicircle, above the nave there is a turret with a bell. Inside there is a polychrome Wacław Taranczewski from 1945. There is a painting in the main altar Mother of God with the Child from the 17th century, a painting in the left altar St. Joseph from the 18th century.
• In the neighbourhood Monument to Greater Poland Insurgents from 1932, destroyed by the Germans and rebuilt in 1948. In the nearby cemetery there is a tomb of 5 who died in the wars of 1919-21.
• It is also worth paying attention to the school building from 1854, later expanded.
• In the meadows between the church and the school, on the west bank of the river Kuroch is located settlement conical with a diameter of about 25 meters, active in the 14th-15th and 17th-18th centuries. Second in the forest 4 km east of the village settlement with a circumference of 190 meters and embankments up to 3 meters high.

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