Kwilcz is a

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Międzychód County __NOTOC__ Międzychód County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pa ...

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, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Kwilcz __NOTOC__ Gmina Kwilcz is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Międzychód County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Kwilcz, which lies approximately east of Międzychód and west of the regio ...

. It lies approximately east of

Międzychód Międzychód (, ) is a town in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, the administrative seat of Międzychód County. It is located on the southern shore of the Warta river, about west of Poznań. Population is 10,844 (2010). History The town w ...

and west of the regional capital

Poznań Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...

Distribution of the villages

*Kwilcz - a large village (about 2500 inhabitants), The National Road 24, which is the most important center of village councils and village community. * Orzeszkowo - a village on the national road No. 24, with more than 200 inhabitants;and smaller settlements and hamlets. *Dąbrówka - otherwise known as Dabrowa, chalet located south of Kwilcz. *Kozubówka-foresterForester-settlement forest on Provincial Road 186, located on the northern shore of Lake Kwileckiego. *New oak-with about 42 inhabitants (2003) village situated 3 km south of Kwilcz. *New Mill-uninhabited forest lodge near the village forester. *Pólko-hamlet at the national road No. 24, with about 20 people. *Mill-lodge located in the reserve Beech Ostrow, near the village Mościejewo.

Sights

*Classical parish church. St. Michael the Archangel (1766-1782), a tower with a helmet in the shape of an obelisk. The church altars with paintings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the pulpit, gravestones Kwilecki from the late eighteenth century. The historical record also includes the fence with sculptures and two baroque chapels. *The palace complex, which consists of: palace Kwilecki of about 1830, two outbuildings with two mid-eighteenth century landscape park, stables and carriage house away and a wooden gazebo park. *Farm team, which includes, among others distillery in 1872, granary, Steward's House and carpenter from the late nineteenth century.

Born in Kwilcz

Walerian Borowczyk Walerian Borowczyk (21 October 1923 – 3 February 2006) was a Polish film director described by film critics as a "genius who also happened to be a pornographer". He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. Borowczyk settled in Paris in 1959. A ...

- film director; co-founder of the Polish school of the poster and the Polish school of animation.

References

Villages in Międzychód County {{Międzychód-geo-stub