WÄ growiec has several important high-class monuments :
a late gothic parish church from XVIth cent, built upon older, romanesque fundaments with three-aisle, hall interior. The most important person linked with this church is priest Jakub Wujek a later rector of the Jesuit College in PoznaÅ â the person, who made the first Bible translation in polish. One can find Wujekâs monument in from of the church â itâs a reconstruction, the original one was destroyed by Nazi Germans during WWII.
the post-Cistersian church and monastery, existing in its present form since XVIIth cent, earlier monastery buildings have burnt in 1744. In the interiors : a precious altar with a baroque relief, nearby a high-school building, where in 1899 Stanislaw Przybyszewski A famous polish poet of that epoque took his final exams.
A Regional Museum â in the so-called abbot-house, rebuilt after a fire in 1987, with historical and ethnografical collection of PaÅuki a region on the borderland of Greater Poland and Kujawy, with a usual, but unique collection of match-etiqettes, coins and orders.
a bifurcation â that means simply a river-crossing, of two small river flowing throughout WÄ growiec : WeÅna i Nielba. The crossing is man-made,. The fisrt canal was built by Cistersian monks in the Middle Ages to improve the city defensive system. Later on â in 1880 â during meliorating works, a new cala leading southwards was dug foriming a crossing that way. An interesting thing is, that â despite of the artificial character of the crossing - only appr. 15% of waters of the two rivers mix, the rest flow in their own river-beds.
The Lakinski Piramide - a grave of captain of horse from the Napoleon Army, Franciszek Lakinski in the shape of a piramide
