Rogowo is a village (formerly a town) in

Żnin County __NOTOC__ Żnin County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pass ...

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

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...

(administrative district) called Gmina Rogowo. It lies approximately south of

Żnin Żnin (; , 1941–45: ) is a town in north-central Poland with a population of 14,181 (June 2014). It is in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (previously Bydgoszcz Voivodeship) and is the capital of Żnin County. The historical town, initially es ...

and south-west of

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Kuyavia. Straddling the confluence of the Vistula River and its bank (geography), left-bank tributary, the Brda (river), Brda, the strategic location of Byd ...

. The village has an approximate population of 2,000. Its history can be traced back to 1311, but it was in 1380 when Rogowo received town rights. These rights were lost on March 23, 1933. Rogowo is home to the

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

team Ludowy Klub Sportowy (LKS) Rogowo. Many of its players played in the Polish National team in many international events. Rogowo is surrounded by many lakes, which offer great attractions mostly to fisherman and campers. The biggest attraction is the newly established Dinosaur Theme Park, Zaurolandia, which opened in April 2007.

Church of Saint Dorothy

Church of Saint Dorothy is a Roman Catholic church situated approximately 700 meters from city center. Building was finished in year 1831, and was consecrated in year 1906. Construction was led by Józef Korytowski. On March 30, 2014, roof and pipe organs of the church got burned in a fire. Nothing inside has been burned, but water used to extinguish the fire, damaged some of church's equipment. As of Today, nobody knows why church caught on fire.

External links

Gminny Portal InternetowyLKS RogowoTown's Public SchoolZaurolandia - Dinosaur Theme Park

References

{{Gmina Rogowo, Żnin County Villages in Żnin County