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KrajenKa

We are the group of teachers and

students from Krajenka gimnazjumschool working on the Comenius

project Lets get to know eachother through photographytogether with schools from Ger-

many, Greece, the United Kingdom,Portugal and Spain.

You are welcome to our municipal-ity gmina and a town Krajenka.We would like to invite you for

a short tour of our region. We hopethat our picturesquely located area

will affect you enough to visit us

in the near future.

r e g i on Dear all

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Okonek

Lipka

ZakrzewoZotw

Tarnwka

Krajenka

Jastrowie

Gmina Krajenka lies in northern part ofWielkopolska Province. It is surrounded by

gminy Zotw, Jastrowie, Okonek, Lipka,Tarnwka i Zakrzewo. It is a part of a big-ger administrative unit Powiat Zotw.It covers an area of 191.8 km2. As regardsthe area, in Poland it is considered to bea medium gmina.

Where we are

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administrative and economic centre ofgmina is a town Krajenka. 7,466 people

live in the area of gmina Krajenka, 3,804of whose live in a town Krajenka. One ofthe main historic attractions of Krajenka is

St Anns and St Nicolas church. It comesfrom the end of the 18th century. Thereare 4 altars inside, rococo pulpit in the

shape of a ships bow, organ dated 1886and a detached belfry. The founder of thechurch was Anna Sulkowska, the owner of

Krajenka properties.

Te main

Signs of bike routs in Dolnik;by Robert Pietroaj

Fire Brigades Brass Bands Festival

The Czerwonokrzyska Song Festival

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Another historic building is a palaceand a park from the18th / 19th centuries.

The palace was built in 1825 as a propertyof Sukowscy family. At present there isa middle school inside Gimnazjumim. dr. Wadysawa Brzeziskiego.Another attraction is a historic water-milland historic house from the19th centuryat Myska Street. The town has a kin-dergarten, a primary school, a middleschool (gimnazjum) and a secondaryschool - vocational school Zesp SzkSpoywczych.

Krajenka has also its cultural and touristattractions. One of them is Czerwonokrzys-ka Song Festival, organized always in Mayfor nearly 22 years. Another significantevent is Fire Brigades Brass Band Festivalthat is held every year in June. In July 2006

the town organized 2nd European Week ofTourism. By that time many marked bikerouts had appeared in the region.

St. Anna and Nicolas Church; by Robert Pietroaj

The half-timbered house and a historic mill;by Robert Pietroaj

The Sulkowskich Palace, now gimnazjum school;by Ewelina Wruk

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is a village, 7 km south of Krajenka witha population of about 500 people. The firstmention of Gubczyn comes from 1350.The village between 1st and 2nd WorldWar was situated on the Polish Germanborder. The Polish society resisted Germaninfluence. Polish leader against Germaniza-

tion was a priest Maksymilian Grochowski.Gubczyn has got a primary school, anda kindergarten. There is also St. John theBaptists church and the remains of anevangelical church. The historic attractionis a burial ground from the PomeranianCulture period, with graveyards, urns andpractical pottery that was discovered not farfrom the village, by the Gubczyn May lake.

Gubczyn

Primary school in Gubczyn;by Klaudia Bbiska

Gubczyn; by Klaudia Bbiska

St. John the Baptist Church;by Joanna uk

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is a small village with 165 people, thatlies 4 km south of Krajenka. The villagehas typically rural character. Social lifeconcentrates in a Voluntary Fire Brigade

House where all social events are held.Another attraction is a private oil paintinggallery Warehouse of Freckles run by theMaeccy family.

Augustowo

The Voluntary Fire Brigade House;by Klaudia Bbiska

The Maeccy Art Gallery; by Joanna uk

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is the smallest village in Gmina Krajenka

with the population of 35 people. Duringthe interwar period it was the only village

that belonged to Poland. It is situated onthe hilly grounds with two lakes: GubczynMay and Gubczyn Wielki. The only his-toric attraction is a palace, built in the 19thcentury, preserved to our times in goodcondition.

Maryniec

A palace in Maryniec,by Klaudia Bbiska

Gubczyn May lake;by Klaudia Bbiska

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is a village that lies on the way Krajenka

Margonin. A population of the villageis about 500 people. In the 18th and

19th centuries, being under German rulePodrna manifested its Polish identity.It cultivated national traditions. Polish

choir Dzwon was active here, Polishschool was found in 1929. Famous Polish

linguist Wadysaw Brzeziski, the authorof Podrnas local dialect dictionarywas born here. Krajenkas middle school gimnazjum has been named after him.

Now Podrna is a neat and tidy villagewith 30 farms.

Podrna

Three-class primary school in Podrna;by Mariusz Wjcik

Wadysaw Brzeziskis house;by Mariusz Wjcik

Podrna; by Mariusz Wjcik

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is a village with a population of about500 people. The village has typically rural

character. Besides, it has a horse stud run

by Danuta and Marian Gyewscy who keephorses of Wielkopolska race. In the villagethere is also a three-class school, a chapel

and a kindergarten.

miardowo Krajeskie

A horse from the stud of the Gyewscyfamily; by Ola Gyewska

Harvest in miardowo Krajeskie;by Ola Gyewska

Three-class primary school in miardowoKrajeskie; by Robert Pietroaj

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is the biggest village in Gmina Krajenka.Its about 12 km south west of Krajenka,with a population of about 590 people.

The village has its own primary schooland a kindergarden. There are also a fewcompanies, like Transpil-Spedition orMiralex. Skrka lies at the Gomia river,by which an old mill has been convertedinto a beautiful hotel. The village is sur-rounded by picturesque forests and lakes,thats why many people from neighbouringtown Pia live here, commuting to work.

Skrka A former mill changed into a hotel;by Tomek Bieniek and Mikoaj Dbrowski

A primary school in Skrka; by TomekBieniek and Mikoaj Dbrowski

Gomia river; by Tomek Bieniek and

Mikoaj Dbrowski

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are two small, neighbouring villages ontwo sides of the road. 450 people live in

Paruszka and about 170 in Dolnik. In thevillages there arent any schools. There isa kindergarten in Dolnik. A historic attrac-tion of Paruszka is a brick church, previ-ously (in 17th century) a small woodenchapel. It was built by Protestants whoused to live here. The forests surroundingthe villages are rich in mushrooms the

great attraction for, especially, touristsliving in big cities.

Paruszka and Dolnik

The church in Paruszka;by Tomek Bieniek

A road from Paruszka to Dolnik;by Tomek Bieniek

Beautiful mushrooms in Paruszkas forest;by Tomek Bieniek

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Niniejszy informator jest sfinansowany ze rodkw uzyskanych z Komisji Europejskiej w ramach programu Comenius

Uczenie si przez cae ycie. Komisja Europejska, jak rwnie Fundacja Rozwoju Systemu Edukacjinie bior odpowiedzialnoci za tre oraz nie odpowiadaj za wykorzystanie informacji zawartych w informatorze.

The authors of the photographs and thedescriptions of this brochure are:

Robert Pietroaj, Joanna uk, Iwona

Tonderys, Klaudia Bbiska, TomekBieniek, Filip Brefka, Natalia Brzeziska,

Julita Bucaw, Micha Daszkiewicz, MikoajDbrowski, Paulina Graduszewska, AniaKowalik, Sylwia Martyn, Marta Sobczak,

Michalina Witkowska, Mariusz Wjcik,Ewelina Wruk and Jdrzej ujew.