Skalmierzyce is a large urban village. It is inhabited by about 4,000 inhabitants and forms a team with the city Nowe Skalmierzyce. It is located in the southern part Greater Poland Voivodeshipin the northeastern part Ostrów County and is the seat of the commune Nowe Skalmierzyce. The town is located about 8 kilometers south-west of Kalisz.
Drive
An old national road runs through Skalmierzyce no 25Kalisz - Ostrow Wielkopolski and district roads intersect here. In November 2009, the newly built "Ring Road of New Skalmierzyce" was opened and the main transit traffic runs along it. The train station is located in Nowe Skalmierzyce and passenger trains on the route from Ostrów to Kalisz stop there.
Worth seeing
The village has been known since 1357. Until the partitions, it was the property of the Gniezno chapter. The biggest monuments are:
- St. Catherine's Church - from 1791-92, in 1873 the western part with a tower was added. There are two stained glass windows in the presbytery Włodzimierz Tetmajer from 1907-08. There is a bas-relief under the main altar last Supper a folk artist from Skalmierzyce - Jan Wawrzyńczak (1843-1917). To the right St. Joseph from 1791, on the left chapel of the Virgin Mary from 1621, with an altar from around 1630 with a painting Our Lady of Skalmierzycka with the Child. Among the votive offerings, a silver tablet, donated in 1634 by the king Władysław IV Waza. At the "Way of the Cross" church from 1977 and other religious sculptures and the heir's tombstone Plum - Jan Nepomucen Niemojowski (1803-72) - officer of the November Uprising.
- Church park - The trees in the church park in Skalmierzyce deserve attention. There are 2 linden trees, an ash tree, and 3 pedunculate elm trees which, due to their old age and impressive size, are classified as natural monuments. A beautiful specimen is the common ivy that grows in front of the rectory and in the cemetery.
- Catholic house - This building comes from the beginning of the 20th century, it is built on the plan of the letter T. As the plaque placed on one of the walls says: "This house, erected in 1909, was the seat of the distinguished People's Bank, the focus of Polishness, in November and December 1918 the center of preparations for an armed detachment of the insurgent Skalmierzyce and the surrounding area. An oak grows next to the Catholic House, planted on the first anniversary of independence (November 11, 1919).
Descriptions of the places and the above-mentioned objects come from the Natural-Sightseeing Map "Powiat Ostrowski" (author: Paweł Dolata) and from the website of Galeria Wielkopolska p. Aleksander Lieberta [1].
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