Greater Poland Voivodeship - Województwo wielkopolskie

Greater Poland Voivodeship
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Greater Poland Voivodeship - voivodeship in central-western Poland, na Greater Poland Lake District and The South Wielkopolska Lowland, in the basin of the central Warta; is divided into 4 cities with poviat rights - Poznań, Kalisz, Leszno and Konin, 31 poviats and 226 communes, and the seat of the voivodeship authorities and the voivodeship marshal is Poznan. The Greater Poland Voivodeship is far from Warsaw.

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Wielkopolska Voivodship Office in Poznańal. Niepodległości 16 / 1861-713 Poznań NIP 778 10 12 911, REGON 000514331 Marshal's Office of the Wielkopolska Province in Poznań Niepodległości 34, 61-714 Poznań, e-mail: [email protected]

The office is open from Monday to Friday, 7:30 - 15:30

Office Information Point (main hall) phone: 61 626 66 66

Registry office fax: 61 626 69 69

Characteristic

Geography

The Greater Poland Voivodeship is situated in the Greater Poland Plain and in the Greater Poland Lakeland. The main rivers of the region are: Guard, Noteć, Prosna and Obra. The northern part of the region is a part of the South Pomeranian Lakeland and the Toruń-Eberswaldzka Glacial Valley, the middle one is the Greater Poland Lakeland and the Warciańsko-Odrzańska Glacial Valley, and the southern part belongs to the Leszczyński Lakeland, the South Wielkopolska Lowlands and the Trzebnicki Embankment. The area of ​​the region was shaped mainly by the Scandinavian ice sheet, which gave way to 12-10 thousand. years ago - hence numerous (especially in the western and northern part of the region) lakes.

Contrary to popular opinion about the province. Greater Poland as a flat region, as much as 40% of the area is hilly, 50% - undulating, and only 10% are flat plains. The highest point of the region is Kobyla Góra in the range of the Ostrzeszowskie Hills (282 m above sea level), the lowest point is in the Noteć valley near Krzyż (31 m above sea level).

fauna and Flora

Forests cover 25.3% of the area of ​​the Greater Poland Voivodeship, which is slightly below the national average of 28.4%. The least forests are in the Koło poviat (10.8%), while the greenest is the Czarnkowsko-Trzcianecki poviat (50.4%). ) The largest forest complexes extend between the Warta and the Noteć. This area covers The Noteć Forest. Large complexes are also located north of Piła, north of Zbąszyń, between Krotoszyn and Ostrzeszów, as well as north and south of Poznań, where The Zielonka Forest and Wielkopolski National Park. Coniferous stands dominate in the voivodship.

Climate

The climate of the Wielkopolskie voivodeship is characterized by lower temperature fluctuations than in other regions of Poland. The summers here are warm and the winters are mild. The voivodeship is one of the driest areas of the country. The annual rainfall is on average 500-550 mm. In the east of the region, there is even less rainfall, i.e. 450 mm. This results in steppe terrain in this area. The vegetation period in the Wielkopolskie voivodship is long. It is on average 210-220 days.

History

The Greater Poland Voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999 from the voivodeships of the previous administrative division:

   Poznań (in full) Konin (except the communes of Uniejów, Grabów and Świnice Warckie), Piła (except the communes of the Wałcz poviat), Leszczyński (except the communes of the Górowski and Wschowa poviats), Kalisz (except the communes of the Wieruszowski and Oleśnicki poviats) of Zielona Góra (only the communes of Wolsztyn, Siedlec and Zbąszyń ) Gorzowski (only Międzychód and Miedzichowo municipalities) Bydgoszcz (only Trzemeszno municipalities).
Fara in Poznan

Drive

St. Stanislaus in Kalisz

By train

The main (which does not mean that the only) railway junction of the region is Poznan, where you can get from almost every corner of Poland. More important long distance connection:

St. Families in Pile

In addition to Poznań, the most important nodes are:

saw - from here we get to:

  • Gorzów Wielkopolski in Lubuskie (sometimes with a change in Krzyż) and further on in Kostrzyn, where it is possible to change to Berlin
  • Kołobrzeg / Koszalina / Słupska in the West Pomeranian and Pomeranian Regions (more connections in the summer season)
  • Bydgoszczy / Toruń / Włocławka in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship - a few people in a hurry a day, also quite numerous passengers to Bydgoszcz

Leszno - access to:

  • Zielona Góra in Lubuskie (via the Lower Silesian Głogów)
  • Gostynia
  • they stop here all trains (also Ex and IC) on the route Poznan – Wroclaw - Wrocław Główny in Lower Silesia
The building of the Polish Post in Leszno

Ostrow Wielkopolski - possible access to:

  • Lodz and further to the capital Of Warsaw - several trains a day (fast trains from Wrocław, passenger trains from Poznań to Łódź)
  • Wroclaw - 3-person, some hurried ones
  • Zgorzelec by Wroclaw and Legnica
  • in the season to Kudowa-Zdrój near the Czech Republic through Wroclaw – Kłodzko and to Suwałki

By car

National road No. 8 from the province. Świętokrzyskie, and the only city through which this road leads is Kępno.

By bus

By plane

The region's only passenger airport is Poznan - Ławica Airport Henryka Wieniawskiego is located only 7 km from the city center (hotels, railway station, Poznań International Fair) and offers over 20 destinations (4 normal-cost, the rest are low-cost airlines), including 3 domestic (Warsaw, Kraków, Szczecin). The port in Poznań is one of the most modern in Poland, and access to the Poznań Old Town (7 km) takes an average of 20-25 minutes. Others include Łódź, Wrocław, Warsaw and Katowice-Pyrzowice.

Town Hall in Turku

Regions

Greater Poland is a relatively cohesive region, but there are (as in other parts of the country) historical districts:

  • Proper Greater Poland - covering the center of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, with Cognition if Leszno
  • Eastern Wielkopolska - region Gniezno, Horseflesh, Kalisz - the remnant of the Piast division (12th-13th century) of Greater Poland into the Poznań and Gniezno-Kalisz lands, additionally reinforced by the division into Poznań and Gniezno dioceses existing since 1000.
  • the so-called "Region of the Goat" - from the regional name of the musical instrument "bagpipes" - surroundings Wolsztyn and Nowy Tomyśl
  • Pałuki - a historical region on the border of Wielkopolska and Kujawy. Today it is the capital of its Greater Poland part Wągrowiec.
  • Krajna - north-eastern holes of the Wielkopolskie voivodeship - surroundings Saws, Złotów, sometimes already included in Eastern Pomerania

It should also be mentioned that since the introduction of the new administrative division in 1999, beyond the administrative borders of Wielkopolska there are, among others: Gorzów Wielkopolski in Lubuskie, the eastern part of the Lubuskie region (Wschowa, Sulechów) in Lubuskie or its vicinity Strzelna – Mogilna – Zninthat have fallen Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Counties

The following poviats are distinguished in the Greater Poland Voivodeship:

31 poviats in the Greater Poland Voivodeship

Towns and poviats

St. Bartholomew in Konin
Cathedral of St. Gniezno

Land counties

St. Martin in Jarocin
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Złotów

Cities

The main cities with poviat rights in the region are - apart from Poznań - the former voivodeship cities that make up the larger Wielkopolskie Voivodeship:

as well as poviat cities:

And other major poviat cities are: Wed, Turkish, Kościan, Wheel, Rawicz if Chodziez.

Fara in Sremie

Other localities

Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows Queen of Poland (Our Lady of Licheń) Lichen Stary
St. John the Baptist in Krotoszyn
Wrocławska Street in Ostrów Wielkopolski

Villages

Town Hall in Kępno
St. Cross in September
Szeroka Street in Grodzisk Wielkopolski

Interesting places

  • Dziewicza Góra (Greater Poland Lake District) - a hill 144.9 m above sea level in the Greater Poland Lake District, located in Poland, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The relative height is about 90 m. The highest elevation in the Puszcza Zielonka Landscape Park. The area of ​​the hill is covered by a special area of ​​habitat protection "Uroczyska Puszczy Zielonki". The hill is the second highest in the hill band of the terminal moraine of the Poznań stadial.
  • Kobyla Góra (Ostrzeszowskie Hills) - the highest elevation of Wielkopolska (284 m above sea level) located in the range of the Ostrzeszowskie Hills. At its peak since 1999, there is the so-called Wielkopolski Cross to which the PTTK routes lead. On the top there are also commemorative stones and a bell. John Paul II - a gift from the inhabitants of the Ostrzeszów region.
  • The Zielonka Forest - a large forest complex to the north-east of Poznań, numerous hiking and biking trails, many lakes with bathing areas and fisheries. On the outskirts, there are numerous wooden churches and other monuments - for example the post-Cistercian palace and monastery of St. Owińska.
  • Stobnica - a small village on the south-western edge of the Noteć Forest with one of the few wolf farms in Poland (run by the Department of Zoology at the Poznań Agricultural University)
  • Śmiełów - a settlement known for the Museum of Adam Mickiewicz, housed in a classicist palace where Adam Mickiewicz stayed in the summer of 1831.
  • In the village Brzostków church of st. John the Baptist visible from afar is the most interesting, though not the only noteworthy object. It was erected in 1840 on a hill leveled for this purpose. The recently renovated classicist manor house, built before 1781, is interesting. The building has a rectangular plan, one-story, with a basement. With a high mansard roof with dormers. In both elevations there are two-storey apparent projections topped with triangular pediments. Around a landscape park (5 ha) with a pond and monumental trees, incl. 400-year-old oak. There is also a remnant of a farm with an unusual, neo-Gothic granary built around 1830 in the form of a defensive structure with windows imitating arrowslits, and octagonal corner towers topped with battlement (architecturally one of the most interesting buildings of this type in the country), also a former smithy and czworak from the 19th / 20th century. Today they are in private hands and you can watch them from behind the fence. Colonel Ludwik Szczaniecki, adjutant of General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, participant in Napoleonic campaigns, commander of the 2nd Kalisz cavalry regiment during the November Uprising was buried here.
  • Pawłowice - a village located in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, in the Leszno poviat, in the Krzemieniewo commune, approx. 105 km south of Poznań. The main monuments of Pawłowice are the baroque-classicist palace of the Counts Mielżyński (including: a pillared hall, a silk room, heirs' apartments), as well as the church of Our Lady of the Snow, where, among others, is buried. general Stanisław Kostka Mielżyński.

Transport

Rail

The basis of transport in the region is definitely rail. The main and most important node is Poznan, slightly fewer connections are offered by regional nodes: Leszno, Ostrów Wielkopolski or Piła. The most important line in the region is the route from Warsaw via Konin, September, Poznań towards the western border and then to Of Berlin. Other trunk lines are:

  • Szczecin – Poznan – Leszno – Wroclaw
  • from the province Pomeranian by I drank – Poznan - Jarocin - Ostrów Wielkopolski and further or through Kalisz down Lodz or further south to Katowice
  • from the Tri-City or Olsztyn (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship) through Inowrocław - Gniezno to Poznań
  • With Bydgoszcz (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship) by I drank to Krzyż and further Gorzów Wielkopolski (Lubuskie Voivodeship) and Of Berlin (Germany)
  • from Ostrów Wielkopolski through the southern fields of the region to Leszno and further to Głogów (Dolnośląskie Voivodeship)

The network of main lines is complemented by local lines, which in the voivodeship Wielkopolska is probably a bit better off than in other parts of the country (approximate number of connections per day in brackets)

  • saw - Wałcz (6)
  • Piła - Złotów - Chojnice (5 to 6)
  • Poznan – Wągrowiec - Gołańcz (8 to 10)
  • Poznan - Grodzisk Wielkopolski – Wolsztyn (7 to 9)
  • Gniezno – September - Jarocin - Krotoszyn (and further Wroclaw) (3 to 5)
  • Jarocin - Leszno (4)
  • Ostrow Wielkopolski - Krotoszyn - Leszno (5 to 8)
  • Leszno – Wolsztyn (5 to 6)
  • The famous pre-war Coal Magistral runs along the eastern fields of the region, which is currently of little importance in tourism, the more so as only 4 pairs of passenger trains a day, plus long-distance trains in the summer season.

On routes from Wolsztyn down Poznan (departures from Wolsztyn around 5:30 and around 11:30, and from Poznań around 9:30 and 15:30) and from Wolsztyn to Leszno (departure from Wolsztyn around 6:00 am, return from Leszno around 3:30 pm) run - as the only scheduled steam trains in Poland. (The hours are given as "around" due to changes in the timetable, resulting in particular from the works carried out at the Poznań junction).

It is also worth mentioning the narrow-gauge railways. Most of them serve only a tourist destination (summer and weekend courses, etc.), but a regional curiosity is the first, independent of the Polish State Railways and private railway line in Poland: a 23-kilometer section from Stary Bojanów (Poznań-Wrocław line) via Propeller to Wielichowo. A dozen or so trains set off here every day. Schedule: http://www.skpl.kalisz.pl (The operator also operates some other narrow-gauge routes - see below) In addition, narrow-gauge trains (often only freight trains, but with the option of ordering a cruise course) run on the following routes:

  • Stare Bojanowo - Śmigiel (SKPL) [1]
  • Środa Wielkopolska - Zaniemyśl
  • Pleszew - Pleszew City (SKPL) [2]
  • Opatówek - Turek (SKPL) [3]
  • Gniezno - Witkowo [4]
  • Białośliwia region (near Piła) mailto: [email protected]
  • a part of the Krośniewicka Koleje Accessowa (SKPL) route runs through the completely eastern part of Wielkopolska

Trip

IN Holy Cross province, Sandomierz

Worth seeing

The pearls of the region are the first Polish capitals (plural!) From the 10th-11th centuries with numerous monuments from the period of the first Piasts:

Other large cities in the region worth spending a few hours there are:

Smaller cities with interesting monuments and traditions include:

  • Kórnik (18 km south-east of the city of Poznań) with a neo-Gothic (although older in its genesis) castle, a dendrological garden and the Kórnik Library rich in exhibits
  • Rogalin (16 km to the south) with a baroque-classicist palace, with the famous painting collection of the Raczyński family, a coach house and no less famous oaks: Lech, Czech and Rus.
  • Puszczykowo (15 km to the south) with the Arkady Fiedler travel museum, the headquarters of the management Wielkopolski National Park (along with a nature museum) and beautiful villas in the watershed Warta valley
  • Swarzędz (just outside the city limits, at the exit towards Konin-Warsaw) with one of the few open-air museums of beekeeping in Europe
  • Nowy Tomyśl with the largest basket in the world and the Museum of Wicker and Hops
  • Szamotuły with the amazing Museum of Icons, Halszka Tower and the collegiate church

In the Greater Poland Voivodeship, it is definitely worth taking off the main routes somewhere to the side to see, for example:

  • Dobrzyca
  • Śmiełów
  • Gołuchów
  • Antonin
  • Kiszewo
  • Owińska
  • Szreniawa (15 km south-west of Poznań) with the Agricultural Museum and the Bierbaum observation tower
  • Lusowo (12 km west of the city) - a wooden church and a private museum of the Commanders of the Greater Poland Uprising 1918-1919
  • Chludowo (15 km north of the city) - the missionary museum of the Verbist Fathers, this is where the recently deceased Fr. Zielazek came from
  • Uzarzewo (15 km north-east of the center) - with the Museum of Hunting and Hunting
  • Kazimierz Biskupi
  • Kłodawa
  • Kobylniki (Szamotuły District) it is mainly a palace erected by Zygmunt Gorgolewski for Tadeusz Twardowski, the second ordinate (son of Teodor) in 1886, bristling with towers, turrets and high chimneys, today it gives the impression of a fabulous residence. Maintained in very good condition, it houses a hotel and a restaurant.
  • Weł with the oldest wooden church with Saturdays in the region and the neighboring Jaracz with the Milling Museum
  • Tarnowo Pałuckie with the oldest preserved wooden church in the country (older than Dębno)
  • Land with one of the most beautiful post-Cistercian complexes in Poland
  • similar churches and monasteries after the Gray Brothers in south-west Greater Poland in Przemęt, Zaobrzański and Obra

Active tourism

An interesting idea to spend a few or even a dozen or so days in Greater Poland may be visiting the region from a bicycle seat. The entire province offers many local or regional marked routes for cyclists, and all routes prepared by the Marshal's Office of the Wielkopolska Province have a GPS track established since 2008.

  • The Hundred Lakes Trail (SSJ) departing from Poznań to the northwest via Kiekrz, Szamotuły and ending in the Międzychodzko-Sierakowskie Lake District.
  • The Piast Bike Trail - starting in Poznań at Lake Malta (the intersection of Jana Pawła II and Baraniaka Streets) and running roughly parallel to the railway route to Gniezno via Ostrów Lednickithe same Gniezno and further through Mogilno to Kruszwica.
  • The Transwielkopolska Bicycle Route - North (TTR-N) connecting the extreme northern parts of the region (Piła, Złotów) with Poznań.
  • The Transwielkopolska Bicycle Route - South (TTR-S), connecting Poznań via Jarocin, Gołuchów, Kalisz with the picturesque Ostrzeszów Hills in the south of Greater Poland
  • The Terrestrial Bicycle Trail - combining what is most typical in Wielkopolska: numerous manors, palaces, former noble and magnate estates. The trail starts in Mosina (18 km south of the city, which can be reached via another trail via Wielkopolski National Park) and leads further south to Rawicz.
  • The Amber Bicycle Trail - connecting towns on the Wielkopolska section of the ancient Amber Route; With Kalisz down Horseflesh.
  • Nadwarciański Bicycle Trail - from Poznań to the south through Mosina (here the beginning of the Ziemiański Trail) and further - mostly along the Warta river embankments to Wheels
  • Lily of the valley Canoe Trail - a picturesque canoeing route through the most beautiful lakes of the Przemęcki Landscape Park - a park located in the south-western part of the voivodeship - 25 km from Wolsztyn with the famous steam locomotive; 40 km from Leszno, one of the main cities of Greater Poland.

Travel plans

It takes about a week to visit the Wielkopolska Province quite thoroughly. The sightseeing plan could look something like this:

Day 1 - arrival to Poznan, a few-hour sightseeing tour of the city (traditional: Ostrów Tumski, Old Town, 19th and 20th-century Poznań). An afternoon spent in a recreational complex in Malta, a visit to the breweries. We end the day with shopping in Stary Browar or coffee and something sweet in one of the many cafes in the Old Town.

Day 2 - we continue our sightseeing of Poznań: St. Wojciech, the Citadel, the Palm House, the "Meteorite Morasko" reserve. Afternoon departure, e.g. to Kicin or Wierzenica (wooden churches), to Swarzędz to the beekeeping open-air museum or to Chludowa to the mission museum of the Verbist Fathers (besides, also a nice wooden temple).

Day 3 - time around Poznań: St. Croissants, castle and aroboretum in Kórnik, Arkady Fiedler's travel museum in Puszczykowo, walk around Wielkopolski National Park down Szreniawywhere we visit the Agricultural Museum and the Birbaum Tower. Alternatively: the sanctuary of Our Lady in a wooden church on Saturday, Return to Poznań.

Day 4 - a full-day (and if you want to do it honestly, it will really be a whole day) trip to the Piast Trail: Ostrów Lednicki, Gniezno and further or the southern branch of the trail: Trzemeszno, Strzelno, Kruszwica or the northern one: Biskupin, Venice, Znin.

Day 5 - we are leaving Poznań for good: departure to the east: a former settlement and Romanesque church in Gieczu, then the post-Cistercian complex in On land, later Konin, Kazimierz Biskupi and finally Kłodawa near the province Łódź with the largest active salt mine in Poland. It is worth going to the vicinity of Kalisz for the night.

Day 6 - spent in the southern province Greater Poland: the palace in Russów, Kalisz, palace w Antonina, castle in Gołuchowie together with the bison reserve and the largest erratic boulder in Greater Poland (St. Jadwiga's Boulder), a wooden church in Burden, 12th-century Romanesque church in Boilers.

Day 7 - we are going towards the baroque Lesznoon the way, full of amazing polychromes and stained glass by Józef Mehoffer, the church of St. Tomorrow. Driving further north-west we reach The rush, then another post-Cistercian abbey in Obra and Wolsztyn with the only active steam engine house in Europe, the Robert Koch museum and an interesting open-air museum in the suburbs.

Day 8 - the end of our trip around the region and the return to Poznań. Along the way, the only one in Poland Museum of Firefighting, St. Rakoniewice, the place of life of the famous inhabitant of the circus car: Michał Drzymała in Drzymałów, the largest basket in the world in Nowy Tomyśl and the private beekeeping museum (we recommend honey !!) and the palace in Wąsowo. And finally Szamotuły with the Halszka Tower.

Of course, the above the route can be freely modified, enriched, shortened, etc., and the purpose of the above text is only to inspire tourists to get to know the province. Greater Poland.

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