Lewków is a large village of about 1,400 inhabitants, located in Greater Poland Voivodeshipin the middle Ostrów County and Ostrów Wielkopolski commune.
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There is a village near Lewków Michałkówwhere the airport is located Ostrowski Aero Club - summer outdoor events and air shows are often held there.
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It is located approximately 6 km northeast of Ostrów Wielkopolski (connection by public transport buses), by the poviat road to Ice axes - Still. There is a train station at the southern end of the village Ice axeswhere passenger trains on the Ostrów route stop KaliszThe village has been known since 1401 and the river flows through it Bear.
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- Lipski Palace - classicist palace built in 1786 - 1791 for Wojciech Lipski and his wife Salomea née Objezierskich. It is considered one of the most magnificent buildings of this type in Wielkopolska. Its construction was based on the designs of the palace in Siekierniki Jan Christian Kamsetzer. It is an object with a uniform, rectangular body with a columned, recessed Ionian portico topped with a triangular pediment. The inscription on the front "To myself, to my friends, to my descendants". On the southern facade there is the date 1791 and female figures supporting cartouches with the letters SL and the coat of arms of the Objezierski family. The building is covered with a simple hipped roof. The courtyard is closed on the sides with two outbuildings (one of them now houses a kindergarten). Representative interiors are decorated with rich ornaments and illusionist painting decorations Antoni Smuglewicz. In the years 1973-89, the building underwent a major renovation with the purpose of being a museum of palace interiors, a function it serves to this day. The museum has gathered, among others. period furniture, Sarmatian portraits and a collection of paintings with patriotic content. The polychromes of the landscape salon, the second salon and the boudoir have survived to this day.
- Landscaped park - stretches around the palace. It comes from the end of the 18th century, covers an area of 8 ha, there is a picturesque pond and monumental trees. The palace courtyard is closed by two square, two-story outbuildings from 1792-95. It is also worth paying attention to farm buildings from the nineteenth century.
- St. Adalbert's Church - was erected in the years 1844-1846 on the site of the previous wooden temple, funded by Salomea Lipska and her grandson Wojciech Lipski. It was built in an eclectic style with neo-renaissance interior fittings. In the main altar there is a painting of St. Anna Samotrze with St. Jan, it is a copy of the painting Bartolome Murillo made by Leon Kapliński. Presbytery with 19th-century polychrome, stucco walls and a marble tabernacle. An interesting element of the interior is a wrought iron grille at the transition from the porch to the church. It was purchased in 1817 from the Cistercian church in Ołobok. It is adorned with a regency-style ornament with the date 1732 and initials Katarzyna Pawłowska. The church gate is decorated with figures of saints.
Descriptions of the village and the above-mentioned objects come from the Natural and Sightseeing Map "Powiat Ostrowski" (author: Paweł Dolata) and from the website of Galeria Wielkopolska p. Aleksander Lieberta [1].
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