Witaszyce is the largest industrial and village village in Poland. It has nearly four thousand inhabitants and covers an area of 1,376.3 ha. It is located on the premises Jarocin Commune in Greater Poland Voivodeshipis only 4 km away from Jarocin, with which it has public transport connections. no.11 down Ostrów Wielkopolski and no.12 down Kalisz. There is a train station in the village, where local passenger trains stop at the route Jarocin – Ostrow Wielkopolski.
History
Traces of early settlement in Witaszyce (according to archaeological research from 1929, then conducted by Dr. Z. Rajewski) date back to the 4th - 5th century AD. The first mention of this village, then called Wythassyce, dates back to 1350 in the documents of the Poznań bishops. In the years 1873-1875, a railway line was built on the Poznań - Kluczbork route, and in 1901-1902 the Jarocin County Narrow Gauge Railway in Witaszyce. national road No. 42, connecting directly Wielkopolska and Upper Silesia. In 1892 a brickyard was built, and in 1897 a sugar factory (later the Sugar Factory and Refinery "Witaszyce").
At home and abroad, Witaszyce was known for high-class construction ceramics and sugar cast cubes (the only producer in the world), exported entirely to Arab countries.
Worth seeing
- church of st. Trinity - a classicist, brick building. The wooden, timbered belfry comes from the first half of the 19th century. Around 1683, after restoration, it was consecrated. The salary book (Liber beneficiorum) from 1510 mentions as many as four patronal titles of the church in Witaszyce, that is: st. Trinity, Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Michael and St. Ursula.
- Neo-baroque palace in Witaszyce was built in 1899 for Willy Dulong by a German architect Louis Otte. The main body on a rectangular plan, multi-storey with an attic, covered with a high mansard roof. The facade is symmetrical with an entrance on the axis, above which there is a top with a coat of arms.