Kalisz is a city with county rights in the central-western Poland, situated on the Plateau Kalisz, over the Prosna, at the mouth Swędrni; the historical capital of Wielkopolska , the capital of Kalisz, the second largest center of the Wielkopolska Province, the seat of the Kalisz poviat, one of the two main centers of the Kalisz-Ostrów agglomeration andKalisko-Ostrowski Industrial District; headquarters of the curia of the Kalisz diocese.
From 1314 until the Second Partition of Poland, Kalisz was the capital of the Kalisz Voivodeship. Kalisz has obtained the right to store in the 1496 year. In the time of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in Kalisz, there was a tax stewards’ office for Wielkopolska. Then he became the capital of the Kalisz department in the Duchy of Warsaw, in the Kingdom of Poland, the capital of the province (until 1837), later (in the years 1837-1845 and 1867-1918) the capital of the governorate. In the years 1975-1998 he was the capital of the Kalisz Voivodeship.
There are theaters, museums, philharmonics, numerous galleries and festivals. Developed media market – numerous local newspapers, radio, television.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the city center of Kalisz (95% destroyed in 1914) was reconstructed. The Main Market Square was rebuilt and the town hall with a high tower, reminiscent of the Renaissance tradition, was erected in the city for the third time. On the Main Square there is a so-called a tenement house with medallions depicting the bas-reliefs of four outstanding Kaliszans: Adam Asnyk, Maria Konopnicka, Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński and Maria Dąbrowska. Distinct features include: monastery complex o. Franciscans funded in 1256 by Prince Bolesław the Pious, the cathedral of St. Nicholas, fragments of city walls with the Dorotka tower from the fifteenth century, the late – renaissance Rector’s church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary from 1607 in the Bernardine monastic complex, which in 1919 took the Jesuits, Orthodox church. Saint Apostles Peter and Paul, collegiate basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Sanctuary of St. Józef of Nazareth, a complex of the Jesuit college from the end of the 16th century, rebuilt in the 19th centuryon the classical office building (since 1999 the seat of the poviat eldership), the Baroque temple of Saint. Wojciech and Saint. Stanisław Biskupa, an urban park in the English style founded in 1798 (24.3 ha), situated on the banks of Prosna amid park greenery – the theater of them. Wojciech Bogusławski, former court of the nineteenth century (now the court), the Stone Bridge (the oldest in Kalisz), a monastic poreformacki complex with the church of St. Józef and Saint. Piotr of Alkantra from 1673, Rogatka Wrocławska from 1828, three historic denominational cemeteries: Evangelical (1689), Roman Catholic (1807), Orthodox (1786), neo-gothic churches dedicated to Saint. Gotarda and Saint. Michał Archanioła, archaeological reserve ” Kaliski Gród Piastów ” and wooden church of St. Wojciech at Zawodzie.
Monuments
During the Kingdom of Poland in Kalisz, among others, Sylwester Szpilowski and Franciszek Reinstein, according to designs, were erected a number of monumental buildings with severe classical forms .
Sacral architecture
St. Nicholas Bishop from 1257, Gothic, with a neo-gothic tower from 1883
Franciscan monastery complex:
St. Stanisław Biskupa from 1257, Gothic with a Baroque peak
the church chapel of the Passion of the Lord, gothic
a monastery from the 14th century, now a baroque one
monastic wall, part of the city walls, partly gothic
Post-Bernardine monastery:
church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary from 1607, currently brick, renaissance, with rococo polychrome
monastery from 1622, baroque
church cemetery with a wall from the 18th century, a column commemorating French soldiers from 1813.
monastery gate, baroque
belfry, baroque
the Jesuit church of Saint. Wojciech and Saint. Stanisław Biskupa, basilica, baroque
Archbishop Karnkowski tombstone of 1611 year.
collegiate Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary from 1353, basilica, baroque with Gothic elements:
gothic polyptych from 1500
rococo side altars
parish house from 1818, classicist
post-reformist monastery complex from 1673:
the church of St. Joseph and Saint Peter of Alcantara – baroque with rococo furnishings and a wonderful painting of St. Families
soldier’s chapel
monastery, baroque with rococo wooden doors
church cemetery with a baroque chapel of St. John of Nepomuk
d. the monastery of the Lateran Canons from 1448, Gothic
St. Wojciecha na Zawodziu, from the 18th century, wooden, with a Baroque altar
Orthodox Church of Saints Peter and Paul the Apostles (parish) from 1929, Neo-Romanesque
Cemeteries
Municipal cemetery (ul.Poznańska 183-187) – search for burial site
Tyniecki cemetery (106 Łódzka St.)
cemetery of Soviet Soldiers (2 Częstochowska Street)
cemetery in Zagorzynek (128 Człopochowska Street)
Żołnierski cemetery (Majków settlement – Żołnierka street)
a group of cemeteries at Rogatka:
the Evangelical-Augsburg cemetery (Lutherka Mountain – 1c Harcerska Street) from the middle XVI in.
Greek Orthodox cemetery (Greek Mountain – 2 Górnośląska St.) from 1787
Catholic cemetery (Municipal Cemetery – 1 Górnośląska St.) from 1807
Ukrainian Cemetery (ul.Ukraińska 1)
New Jewish cemetery in Kalisz
Public buildings
Town Hall from 1924, neoclassical
Theater Wojciech Bogusławski from 1923, no-catechist
Pałac Trybunalski from 1824, classicist
bank of the Kalisz Mutual Credit Society (1912-1913)
Rogatka Wrocławska from 1822, classicist
Provincial School from 1819, classicist
shelter of Saint Spirit from 1855
prison from 1846
Fortifications
defensive walls from the 14th century:
tower Dorothy
Polish field reinforced concrete shelters from 1939, 18 preserved
Barracks
d. barracks of the Godebski School from the beginning of the 19th century, classicist (almost completely destroyed in a fire in May 2006)
d. military barracks from 1842, classicist
d. Cadet Corps:
drill room from 1825.
Industrial buildings
Benjamin Repphan’s factory, 1825
fullfilm of Benjamin Repphan and weir in Prośnie, 1822
Arnold Fibiger’s Piano and Piano Factory, 1899
Piano factory Teodor Betting
Meissner’s factory, around 1900
Wincenty Przechadzki’s workshop, 1824
Palaces
Puchalski Palace (Puławski) from 1820/1829, classicist
Palace of the Kaliski Voivodeship Committee
Other monuments
Old Park, the oldest public city park in Poland, founded in 1798
Stone Bridge, the oldest bridge in Kalisz, built in the years 1825 – 1826
aleja Wolności, marked out in 1800
Bridges
Nad Prosna
bridge of Princess Jolanta
railway bridge
bridge of St. Wojciech
Teatralny bridge (pedestrian)
The Tribunal Bridge
Stone bridge
bridge on Chopin street
bridge on the avenue of the Polish Army
bridge on Szewska street (pedestrian)
bridge on Piłsudskiego street
Over the Bernardyński Canal
Stadionowy Bridge (pedestrian)
Red bridge (pedestrian)
the Warsaw bridge
the Bernardyński bridge (formerly Żelazny)
bridge on the avenue of the Polish Army
Majkowski bridge
bridge on ulica Bernardyński
Over the Rypinkowski Canal
Rypinkowski bridge
Bankowy bridge
Reformacki bridge
On Swędrnia
Tyniecki bridge
bridge on Rajskowska street
bridge on Saperska street
bridge on Pontonowa street (pedestrian)
Amber bridge
bridge on ulica Sportowa
Other bridges
4 bridges in the City Park (walking)
bridge in the Friendship Park (pedestrian)
several bridges over Krępica
a few bridges over Peony
Monuments
Adam Asnyk’s monument (Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, 1960)
monument to Maria Konopnicka (Stanisław Horno-Popławski, 1969)
Book Monument (Jerzy Sobociński, 1978)
a statue of John Paul II (Jan Kucz, 1999)
Parks and greens
city park
Sports Park
Friendship Park
Park in Majków
Park at Krępica
Park in Szczypiornie
Park I. Paderewski
Park in Sulisławice
Planty
Mars Fields on the Dobrzec P estate
Winery Forest on Wineries
Numerous squares (including Eligiusz Kor-Walczak, Sybiraków)
nature reserve, Torfowisko
Archeological reserves
archaeological reserve at Zawodzie:
fortified settlement from the 9th-10th centuries
foundations of the collegiate church of St. Paul the Apostle
fragments of the tomb of Mieszko the Old
architectural and archaeological reserve Castle
Religion
Roman Catholic church
Collegiate Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Śródmieście)
Cathedral of St. Nicholas Bishop (Downtown)
Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Gardens)
Bl. Michał Kozal (Winiary)
Divine Mercy (Skulls)
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Zagorzynek)
Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Śródmieście)
The BVM Queen of Poland (Majków)
Providence of God (Kaliniec)
Of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Szczypiorno)
ss. Poor Clares (Piwonice)
St. Barbary (Szczypiorno)
St. Gotarda (Rypinek)
St. Michał Archanioła (Dobrzec)
St. Peter and Paul (Dobrzec)
St. Families (Downtown)
St. Stanisław Biskupa and Martyr (Downtown)
St. Wojciech (Profession)
St. Wojciech and Saint. Stanisława Biskupa (Downtown)
The Orthodox Church
Orthodox church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Protestant Churches
Evangelical-Augsburg Church, parish: ul. Niecała (the chapel is located at Wale Staromiejski)
Baptist Christian Church, church: ul. Podgórze 1
Pentecostal Church, church: ul. Stawiszyńska 8
Church of God in Christ, church: ul. Towarowa 1
Christian Church “Sword of the Spirit”, ul. Poznańska 45
Cemeteries
Evangelical Cemetery (Rogatka)
Communal Cemetery (Poznańska Street)
City Cemetery (Rogatka)
parish cemetery (Dobro)
parish cemetery (Zagorzynek)
orthodox cemetery (Skulls)
Tyniecki Cemetery (Tyniec)
military cemetery (Majków)
Cemetery of Soviet Soldiers (Śródmieście II)
an old Jewish cemetery and a new Jewish cemetery
Ukrainian Military Cemetery (Szczypiorno)
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