Krześlice is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Pobiedziska __NOTOC__ Gmina Pobiedziska is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Pobiedziska, which lies approximately north-east of the regional capital P ...

, within Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of

Pobiedziska Pobiedziska (german: Pudewitz) is a town in Poznań County, Poland, with 8,209 inhabitants as of the year 2004. It is also the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Pobiedziska. The town's name comes from the word ''pobieda ...

and north-east of the regional capital

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

. The name of the village was first documented in 1396 in reference to a certain "Piotr of Crzyślice". During the sixteenth century the village was the property of the Przecławski family. In 1623 the village was the site of a banquet in honor of the son of the Polish king, Władysław (later king of Poland as well). By the eighteenth century the village was in decline but saw a revival in the nineteenth, when the "

gothic revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

" palace of the Radoński family was built, in 1860 (on the basis of an earlier estate. However, in 1888, the

Prussian Settlement Commission The Prussian Settlement Commission, officially known as the Royal Prussian Settlement Commission in the Provinces West Prussia and Posen (german: Königlich Preußische Ansiedlungskommission in den Provinzen Westpreußen und Posen; pl, Królewska K ...

(see

Prussian Partition of Poland The Prussian Partition ( pl, Zabór pruski), or Prussian Poland, is the former territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth acquired during the Partitions of Poland, in the late 18th century by the Kingdom of Prussia. The Prussian acquis ...

) dispossessed the owner of the palace, Zygmunt Radoński, and gave the palace to an ethnic German noble, Georg von Littiechau (Radoński was "compensated" with land in

Congress Poland Congress Poland, Congress Kingdom of Poland, or Russian Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It w ...

). After Poland regained its independence the palace was purchased by an industrialist from

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...

. During the

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, there was a nearby military airport. After

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the palace was taken over by the communist authorities and fell to ruin, while the village itself became part of a state owned farm (PGR). After the fall of communism the palace was bought out by private investors and turned into a hotel and a restaurant.

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Villages in Poznań County {{Poznań-geo-stub