Rawicz

Rawicz is a metropolis inside the province Wielkopolskie, within the Rawicki poviat the seat of the poviat government the seat of the urban rural commune of Rawicz. During the Second Polish Republic and inside the years 1945 to 1975, the metropolis changed into administratively part of the Poznan province and from 1975 to 1998 it belonged to the province. According to facts from March 31, 2011, the metropolis had 21,183 populations. The town became founded in 1638 by using Adam Olbracht Przyjemski in the village of Sierakowo for therefore referred to as raw root. The beginnings of the 18^th century become a black period within the records of Rawicz.

First, the hearth that broke out in 1701, then the wonderful Northern War, which delivered the Swedish occupation in 1704 to 1705 King Karol XII stayed here for several months and the march of Russian troops. Subsequent losses introduced the live of the Saxon troops in 1733. The city's populace decimated the plague in 1710 to 1711. Around the middle of the 18^th century, the city started to revive. The construction of the palace now nonexistent was finished, and in the years 1753 to 1756 a remarkable town hall became built, on which 1783 one of the first lightning rods in Poland was mounted.