Żerków ' is a town in Jarocin County

Jarocin County

Jarocin 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 Jarocin, which lies...

, 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

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, with 2,076 inhabitants (2004). Zerkow was used by the Germans during WWII as a resort spot for soldiers during the war, which is located 53 kilometers east of the Polish Industrial City of Poznań, Poland.

In 1962 a telecommunication tower of reinforced concrete similar to that at Piatkowo was built.

People

• Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz
  Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz
  Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz was a Polish pathologist who was born in Żerków. In 1873 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Breslau, where he was a student-assistant to physiologist Rudolf Peter Heinrich Heidenhain...
  
  
• Giovanni Catenazzi, architect
• Jan Nepomucen Chrzan
• Heinrich Graetz
  Heinrich Graetz
  Heinrich Graetz was amongst the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective....
  
  
• Adam Mickiewicz
  Adam Mickiewicz
  Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature...
  
  
• Jakob Steinhardt