Rakoniewice
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Rakoniewice r is a town in Grodzisk Wielkopolski County
Grodzisk Wielkopolski County
Grodzisk Wielkopolski County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is...

, Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Wielkopolska Voivodeship , or Greater Poland Voivodeship, is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Poznań, Kalisz, Konin, Piła and Leszno Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998...

, Poland
Poland
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, with 3,576 inhabitants (2006).

The settlement was recorded in 1252, a town since 1662. Location Rakoniewice in the 17th century was associated with the settlement of so-called dissenters who favored property owners. The city became a center of craft - the commercial.

In the years 1869-1872 his first medical practice conducted here by Robert Koch.

In the years 1901 - 1906 the town was the scene of school strikes. Division of Rakoniewice took part in the uprising in 1919, Greater postwar history is associated with economic development and expansion of the city infrastuktury.

Until 1975 was part of a municipality Rakoniewice Wolsztyn county.

As from 1975-1998 belonged to the province. Poznań.

Despite the historical, geographical, economic reasons to merge with the reconstituted municipality in 1999 wolsztyńskim district and opposition of local residents of the villages for a better location for Wolsztyn, village Rakoniewice joined the county Grodzisk.
Sights [edit]

* Timbered church from the 18th century, now Greater Fire Service Museum
* Arcaded houses from the 18th - 19th century
* Eclectic palace from the 19th century

Transportation [edit]

Through the city runs the national road No. 32 Stęszew - Wolsztyn - Zielona Góra - Gubin and the railway line No 357 Wolsztyn - Grodzisk Wielkopolski - Lubon near Poznań - Poznań.

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