Wierzenica - village of the village administrator in Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship, in poviat of Poznań, in in the Swarzędz commune, on the right bank of the Główna River, to the north east from Swarzędz.
A plate with the name of the town
Information
In the years 1975–1998 the village was situated in the former Poznań Province.
Geographic coordinates: 52 ° 27′42 ″ N, 17 ° 04′05 ″ E
In 2007, the village had 261 inhabitants.
History
The village was mentioned in 1153. He lived here August Cieszkowski (1814-1894), national and social activist, co-founder and long-term president of the Society of Friends of Sciences in Poznań. Wierzenica was visited by a poet who was friends with A. Cieszkowski several times Zygmunt Krasiński.
Historical monuments
- Former half-timbered inn from the 18th century, a bit further Żalnik - a hill with a cemetery from the 5th century BC
A historic inn on the road to Wierzonka
- The parish church of st. Nicholas - wooden, from the second half of the 16th century, later rebuilt. Covered with shingles, a tower with an onion-shaped cupola. Baroque church furnishings (altars, pulpit, baptismal font) from the 17th and 18th centuries, in the main altar there is a painting of the Mother of God with the Child (1636). On the On the wall there is a tombstone of August Cieszkowski in the form of a bronze door, made by a poet and a sculptor Teofil Lenartowicz. Prayer scenes are illustrated on the vertical strip between the door leaves our father (this is also the title of A. Cieszkowski's main philosophical work). The marble bust of Cieszkowski is the work of Antoni Madeyski, known for his royal sarcophagi at Wawel.
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