Rychwał Town and Commune
RYCHWAŁ TOWN AND COMMUNE OFFICE
Plac Wolności 16
62-570 RYCHWAŁ
phone: +48/63/ 248 10 01
fax: +48/63/ 248 10 55
Mayor - Stefan Dziamara
Chairman of the Town Council - Roman Drewniacki
www: www.rychwal.pl
e-mail: sekretariat@rychwal.pl
An-urban-rural commune located in the southern part of the county within the Rychwalska Plain area. Consists of 23 villages. The commune's area is 11,7 square kilometers and it is inhabited by 8,4 thousand people, including 2,3 thousand people living in Rychwał. The commune is located along the main road No 25 connecting Konin to Kalisz and thus ensuring easy access to the A-2 motorway.
Favorable location of the commune had ensured that for a long time Rychwał has been a local administration and economic centre. At the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, on the territory of Rychwał commune, a fortified castle (so-called tenement house at mound) with porches and enclosed with deep moat was constructed. We can see some fragments of the castle remaining even today. It was Marcin Zaremba's from Sławsk property. He had purchased Rychwał along with surrounded villages and probably earned Rychwał its municipal rights (before 1459). After his son's death, his grandson Wojciech, known as the bandit knight (earned that title by attacking the merchants traversing the Kalisz-Poznań track), took over the whole property. In 1525, at the request of Albrecht von Hohenzollern - last great Teutonic master, who came to pay homage to Polish Ruler, Zygmunt Stary King granted him a loyal pardon. After the pardon, he did not desist from this shady business. After being captured, he was executed by beheading. Other residences worth seeing are: Halszka’s Donjon in Szamotuły, Vault in Jarocin and recently identified tenement house in Przyjma.
Other interesting monuments include the Holy Trinity parish church built in 1476 and expanded between 1790 and 1800, which is the home of, among others: a 15th century crucifix, a 17th century stoup and the Renaissance tombstone of the founder – Gabriel Złotowski.
In Dąbroszyn village there remainsa former noble manor, now falling into disrepair. Kuchary Kościelne village also has its jewel; it is wooden temple, where one can see gravestones of Gałczyńskis’ family, which was closely related to Kossaks’ - famous family of artists, painters and writers.
The commune has large areas of mixed forests, making it a good place for rest and recreation. In the vicinity of the town there is an area with a unique place of mud flora named "Bagno", and in Rybie village there are scots pines which are around 200 years old (nature monuments).
The commune's economy is dominated by the agriculture. The agricultural land is 8,6 thousand hectares, of which almost 80,1% is arable, the remaining part is pasture. The crops consist mainly of cereals and potatoes. The livestock consists mostly of pigs and cattle. In the Rychwał commune, there are about 1 300 individual farms.
There are also about 330 non-agricultural businesses, employing 420 people.
