Kwilcz 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 ...

Międzychód County __NOTOC__ Międzychód County ( pl, powiat międzychodzki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish lo ...

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, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Kwilcz __NOTOC__ Gmina Kwilcz is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Międzychód County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Kwilcz, which lies approximately east of Międzychód and west of the region ...

. It lies approximately east of

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and west of the regional capital

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. The village has a population of 2,746.

Distribution of the villages

*Kwilcz - a large village (about 2500 inhabitants), The National Road 24, which is the most important center of village councils and village community. * Orzeszkowo - a village on the national road No. 24, with more than 200 inhabitants;and smaller settlements and hamlets. *Dąbrówka - otherwise known as Dabrowa, chalet located south of Kwilcz. *Kozubówka-foresterForester-settlement forest on Provincial Road 186, located on the northern shore of Lake Kwileckiego. *New oak-with about 42 inhabitants (2003) village situated 3 km south of Kwilcz. *New Mill-uninhabited forest lodge near the village forester. *Pólko-hamlet at the national road No. 24, with about 20 people. *Mill-lodge located in the reserve Beech Ostrow, near the village Mościejewo.

Sights

*Classical parish church. St. Michael the Archangel (1766-1782), a tower with a helmet in the shape of an obelisk. The church altars with paintings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the pulpit, gravestones Kwilecki from the late eighteenth century. The historical record also includes the fence with sculptures and two baroque chapels. *The palace complex, which consists of: palace Kwilecki of about 1830, two outbuildings with two mid-eighteenth century landscape park, stables and carriage house away and a wooden gazebo park. *Farm team, which includes, among others distillery in 1872, granary, Steward's House and carpenter from the late nineteenth century.

Born in Kwilcz

*Luke Ciepliński "plow" - Polish Army officer, an activist of the Polish Underground State, a soldier of the Home Army and President of the fourth Board of the "WiN". *

Walerian Borowczyk Walerian Borowczyk (21 October 1923 – 3 February 2006) was an internationally known Polish film director described by film critics as a 'genius who also happened to be a pornographer'. He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. Borowczyk sett ...

- film director; co-founder of the Polish school of the poster and the Polish school of animation. *Andrew Kwilecki - sociologist. *Francis Brodniewicz - the pre-war Polish cinema actor.

References

Villages in Międzychód County Poznań Voivodeship (1921–1939) {{Międzychód-geo-stub