Krotoszyn: Cycling Routes, City History and Regional Museum

The “Wokół Krotoszyna” cycling route starts in the market square and passes through several places before returning to Krotoszyn. The “Dąbrowy Krotoszyńskie” cycling route also starts in Krotoszyn and follows its own sequence of places. For a walk, there are paths in Wojska Polskiego Landscape Park. The Regional Museum’s permanent exhibition is devoted to the history of Krotoszyn from prehistory to the present, as well as the region’s folk culture in the 19th and 20th centuries.

“Wokół Krotoszyna” starts in Krotoszyn’s market square. The route passes through Osusz, Trafary, Staw Węgielnik, Zduny, Chachalnia, Ujazd, Wodników Górny, Sulmierzyce and Chwaliszew before returning to Krotoszyn. The sequence of places makes the route easy to follow and specifies both its starting point and its return to the town.

The “Dąbrowy Krotoszyńskie” cycling route starts in Krotoszyn. It passes through Jasne Pole (Sędziszew), Rozdrażewek, Leśn. Sokołówka, Os. Leśn. Dąbrowa, Roszki, Orpiszew, Leśn. Borowina, Chruszczyny and Chwaliszew. If you compare cycling routes by the places they pass through, you can distinguish this route from “Wokół Krotoszyna”: each has its own sequence of places, and only the first is explicitly described as returning to Krotoszyn.

If you would rather take a walk than go on a cycling tour, you can use the park paths in Wojska Polskiego Landscape Park in Krotoszyn. This offers cycling and walking as distinct options alongside the town’s cultural attractions.

The Regional Museum’s permanent exhibition covers two subject areas with different time spans. One explores the history of Krotoszyn from prehistory to the present. Another focuses on the folk culture of the Krotoszyn region in the 19th and 20th centuries. Visitors interested in the town’s development will find a different focus from those whose attention is drawn to regional folk culture.

The exhibition occupies six rooms and a monastery corridor. The museum is housed in a former Trinitarian monastery building. This building was erected around 1733 on the site of a church cemetery. The museum’s location therefore has its own architectural history, while the exhibition covers both the city’s distant past and folk culture from the 19th and 20th centuries.

The butchers’ guilds in Krotoszyn were established shortly after the town was founded, at the beginning of the 15th century. The town hall combines Baroque and Neo-Renaissance elements. The Church of Saints Fabian and Sebastian contains an architectural altar dating from the second half of the 18th century. These details offer different ways into the town’s history: they concern early guilds, the design of the town hall, and a specific furnishing in a church.

The name “wędzonka krotoszyńska” has been known since the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. It derives from the county town of Krotoszyn on the Kalisz Upland. This regional name adds another dimension to the town’s history and the cultural topics to explore in Krotoszyn.

If you would like to compare more destination pages, you can also find Smolice, Zduny, Kobylin, Sulmierzyce, Brzoza and Perzyce here.

Where does the “Wokół Krotoszyna” cycling route start?

It starts in Krotoszyn’s market square and passes through several places before returning to the town.

What subjects does the Regional Museum’s permanent exhibition cover?

It covers the history of Krotoszyn from prehistory to the present, as well as the region’s folk culture in the 19th and 20th centuries.

What architectural styles does the town hall combine?

Krotoszyn town hall combines Baroque and Neo-Renaissance elements.

Since when has the name “wędzonka krotoszyńska” been known?

It has been known since the turn of the 1950s and 1960s.

For the broader travel overview: Krotoschin.