Attractions and Places To See around Ostrów Wielkopolski - Top 20

A beautiful wooden church worth seeing

Church of St. Nativity N.P. Mary from 1785-86. Expanded in 1927 - extension of the nave. Renovated in 1929, 1959, 1985 and 2001-02. Wooden church, single-nave, log structure. Oriented. The smaller presbytery from the nave, closed on three sides, with the adjacent brick sacristy and the wooden tomb chapel of Wanda Tyszkiewiczowa. Porch on the side of the nave. Double-ridge roof, covered with shingles. In the central part there is an octagonal turret with a turret. Topped with a tin, onion-shaped Baroque helmet with a lantern. Above the front entrance, the eaves are supported by wooden poles. The interior is plastered with wainscoting in the lower part of the walls. Flat ceilings with facets common to the nave and chancel. The choir is supported by four pillars, has a straight window sill and a baroque organ. Polychrome by Wiktor Gosieniecki from 1929 on the ceiling of Our Lady with the Child. Forms of ceiling lamps, coffers, medallions with floral and geometric ornaments. The main Rococo altar from the end of the 18th century is of the cupboard type. Two Rococo side altars from the end of the 18th century with a painting of the founders and Our Lady of Śnieżna from 1637. The tombstone of Władysław Czaski, a colonel of the Polish infantry and a soldier of Napoleon fighting in 1812 near Moscow. Wooden bell tower of a pole structure from 1948 with a flag from the previous one with the date "1804". Built on a square plan, covered with a shingle tent roof with two bells from 1948 and 1976.

Town hall in Ostrów Wielkopolski

Renovation works were carried out in 2018–2021, so it is worth seeing the facility in its current form, after revitalization. The museum is open to visitors from October 3, 2022.

Renovation works were carried out in 2018–2021, so it is worth seeing the facility in its current form, after revitalization. The museum is open to visitors from October 3, 2022.

The palace in Lewków was built in 1788-1791. The founder of the palace, Wojciech Lipski - a hunter from Kalisz, from 1776 he was adjutant general of King Stanisław August Poniatowski, by whom he was awarded the Order of St. in 1790. Stanisław. This order was established by the king in 1765, as the second Polish order after the Order of the White Eagle. The palace in Lewków was probably designed in the classicist style by Jan Christian Kamsetzer - the court architect of Stanisław August. It belongs to the first series of classicist residences in Greater Poland and is a faithful copy of the palace in Sierniki near Wągrowiec. The palace is made of brick, two-story, on a rectangular plan with a four-column, deep Ionic portico topped with a triangular tympanum. The palace houses a museum. It presents, among others: period furniture (including the deposit of the Lipski family from the former palace furnishings), a collection of Sarmatian portraits and memorabilia of former landowners.

Parish Church of St. Saint Stanisław, Bishop and Martyr was built in the years 1905-1907 according to the design of Sylwester Pajzderski, modified by Roger Sławski, in the Neo-Romanesque style (with a clear Rhine provenance). The church was built thanks to the efforts of the parish priest, Fr. Walenty Śmigielski and the parishioners, with the material support of the collector, Prince Ferdynand Radziwiłł. The cornerstone for the new church was laid in 1904. The new church was consecrated on September 30, 1906. The temple was consecrated on October 6, 1906 by Bishop Edward Likowski, later Primate of Poland in 1914-1915. With the establishment of the Kalisz diocese, it was raised to the rank of co-cathedral in the bull of John Paul II "Totus Tuus Poloniae Populus" announced on March 25, 1992. Because the temple was built in a marshy area, a meter-thick concrete slab was poured under the church, and 200 piles were driven under the tower to a depth of 8 meters. The church is 67 m long and 33 m wide (in the transept), the height of the main nave is 14 m. The tower rises to a height of 55 m. The temple can accommodate 4,000 people. faithful. The facility was built of red semi-clinker brick, while the decorations are made of white sandstone. The Ostrów co-cathedral is a four-span, three-nave basilica with a transept. The extensive, three-sided presbytery is surrounded by a ring of low, semi-circular apses housing a sacristy, a collator's box and auxiliary rooms. These apses are connected by a corridor and covered with mono-pitched and conical roofs. The asymmetrically situated tower is topped with a pointed four-field roof. In the main nave, transept and side aisles. a groin vault was used, and in the presbytery - a conch vault with lunettes. The walls of the main nave and aisles where the vaults rest are reinforced with buttresses, while in the transept the square towers flanking its corners serve as buttresses. The octagonal shape of the presbytery is topped with a pointed pyramidal roof. From the west, the Ostrów co-cathedral is decorated with a portico, a rose window and arcaded niches. In the portico, the bas-relief "Annunciation" placed in the tympanum, made by an outstanding artist from Greater Poland, Władysław Marcinkowski, attracts attention. Under the colonnade of the portico you can see a beautiful sculpture "Pilgrim" from 1890, made of sandstone. The sculpture shows the figure of an old man dressed in a long pilgrim's habit, belted with a rope, with a hat on his back, crouching and hugging a rotten cross. The interior of the church was not initially polychrome, and was colored by beautiful stained glass windows. Currently, the interior is decorated with a polychrome by Henryk Jackowski-Nostitz from 1929. The spacious octagon-shaped presbytery is decorated with a two-level gallery with 30 sandstone columns supporting a domed vault. Figures of Polish saints and blesseds are placed on the vault of the presbytery. In its central part there is a marble altar, made by Stefan Ballenstedt in 1907, with an alabaster figure of the Virgin Mary and Child, which is adored by two angels carved by Władysław Marcinkowski. In addition to the main altar, there are 6 more altars in the church. Left aisle: – Our Lady of Perpetual Help (in the apse). – Saint Antoni. Right aisle: – Sacred Heart of Jesus (in the apse). – Saint Joseph (formerly St. Anna, in a niche). – Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus (in a niche). – Our Lady of Częstochowa (in the side chapel) The interior also includes a marble pulpit on pillars, decorated with a mosaic of St. Peter, holding a key, as well as a marble baptismal font with a forged sheet metal cover. The organ with 33 voices was built ten years before World War II by Józef Stanisławski's company from Poznań.

The Town Hall stands in the middle of the Market Square. It was built in the years 1824-28 thanks to the patronage of Prince Antoni Radziwiłł according to the design of J. H. Haerbelin, an architect from the circle of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. During the reconstruction in 1862, the passage through the inner courtyard was closed. Reconstruction after the war damage, completed in 1948 and carried out according to the plans of architect Kazimierz Ulatowski, completely changed the appearance of the building. Renovated in 1977-87. It is a three-story building, built on a square plan with a small internal courtyard, secondarily roofed. The flat roofs are covered with an attic decorated with pinnacles. The façade is dominated by a turret with a pseudo-baroque dome and two lanterns. The clock with a chime inside comes from the second half of the 19th century. 19th century. Below the clock face there is the city's coat of arms. The facades - decorated with rustication on the ground floor - are crowned with a prominent crowning cornice. The main entrance leads through an arcade supporting a balcony with a stone balustrade. On its sides, on the facade wall, there are two plaques commemorating the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation and the fights of the Home Army units. Inside there is the Ostrów Wielkopolski City Museum and the Wedding Hall.