Wagrowiec

Wagrowiec is a town in northwestern Poland, 50 kilometres from both Poznan and Bydgoszcz. Since the 18^th century it's been the seat of a powiat. It is presently connected to the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The town is situated in the middle of the ancient place of Paluki and the Chodziez lake vicinity, at the river Welna and its tributaries Nielba and Struga, in addition to at the shorelines of Durow Lake. The metropolis turned into based as a small village known as Prostynie by the Cistercian monks from the monastery in Lekno in 1319.

In 1381, the name of Wagrowiec is referred to for the first time in connection with the location. By that point the metropolis obtained city legal guidelines, most probable modelled after the Magdeburg Law. At the stop of the 16^th century, King Wladyslaw Jagiello gave the metropolis the privileges of marketplace and truthful, and in 1396 the Cistercian monastery became moved in.