Our school

There are 200 students in our school. This is secondary school and a vocational school, with students’ ages ranging from 16 to 19. They have partical lessons at small private firms and they learn many different occupations.

GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION AND CHARACTER OF THE COMMUNITY OUR CITY

Town and Community Krzywiń are situated in the south-west part of Wielkopolska Region, since 1 January 1999 - in Kościan District. Until recently the community had an agricultural character and private farms were a basis for inhabitants' economic activity. For a few years tourism has been developing quickly. The community lies in an extremely picturesque area of the range of Dolskie Hills with numerous forests, fields and lakes.

HISTORY

The history of Krzywiń goes back to 1070. The then settlement belonged to Komes Michał from the house of Awdaniec, and later on it became the property of the Benedictines who had arrived from Leodium (at present the city of Liege in Belgium). The Krzywiń Land was situated on the important route joining Wielkopolska and Silesia. In the middle of the 12th c., in Lubiń, situated 5 km from Krzywiń, the Benedictines erected a Roman church, monastery buildings and fortifications crowned with donjons. The monastery, extended in the Gothic and Baroque epochs, is now one of the most valuable places of interest of the Christian culture in Poland. Krzywiń itself, as the former seat of the castellan’s court, can be proud of its 760-year-old history. The Gothic church dated from the 15th c. with its rich Baroque interior shows how important the town was centuries ago. Krzywiń also participated in the country's fight for independence. The history of the voluntary campaign of 1918 and the memories of the soldiers who fought with the invader in 1939 are still very much alive among the inhabitants of Krzywiń.

EDUCATION AND SPORT

Young people from Krzywiń attend four primary schools and the Group of Secondary and Vocational Schools. The educational institutions, managed by the local government are provided with modern didactic equipment and teaching aids. Teaching foreign languages and computer science is an issue of great importance.

ECONOMY

The area of Community Krzywiń amounts to 17,749 ha in total, including 12 thousand ha of arable land and nearly 3 thousand ha occupied by forests. Over 9 thousand ha are managed by individual farmers. There are 15 agricultural companies, e.g. the most famous producer of high-quality seeds, the partnership "Danko". Its Seed Institute, located in Kopaszewo is working on the cultivation and introducing new sorts of crops on the market. The community area has also become a home for the branches of Leszno companies, running ecologically harmless business concerned mainly with agriculture and construction industry. The main values of the community are: a modern telecommunication network, a network of high-quality roads, the proximity of famous transport routes and a competitive price of land. Communal investments serve not only the inhabitants but also the investors who set up their business in the community.

GENERAL ECONOMIC OFFER

There are great economic opportunities as far as tourism, service and construction industry are concerned. There are three swimming pools situated on the lakes which are meant for a recreational-touristic complex in the plans of spatial management. The opening of a narrow-gauge railway line joining Kościan and Gostyń will probably increase the demand for service business in the surroundings of Kopaszewo, Jerka, Krzywiń, Lubiń, Bieżyn and Bielewo.

COMMUNITY IN NUMBERS

The community occupies the area of 177 sq km subjected to landscape protection. Its population is 10,096 people, including 1,576 inhabitants of Krzywiń. There are 443 registered economic entities and 151 unemployed (28 of them are town inhabitants). There are 200 telephones in 1,000 inhabitants. In the community area there are 120 bed places but the number can be trebled in summer season. There are five lakes. There are neither ecological endangerments nor serious sources of pollution in the community.

TOURISM

The Krzywiń Land is attractive for the lovers of swimming, surfing, sailing, canoeing and for anglers. Apart from the huge historic Abbey of Benedictines in Lubiń, pilgrims may be extremely interested in the Kopaszewska Way of the Cross that has been willingly visited for nearly 100 years. Hikers are provided with 54 km of tourist routes and guidebooks. There are also numerous routes, extremely attractive for cyclists. The visitors to the community are expected in the hostels in Łagowo (30 bed places), Lubiń (40 bed places), Cichowo and Krzywiń. The number of agrotourist farms is increasing.

INVESTMENT AREAS - COOPERATION WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Krzywiń cooperates with the Hungarian Community Pomaz. In 1997 we signed an agreement on twin cooperation with the French Community Le Beny The offer of the community for the next few years encompasses the organization of a boarding, recreational and sports base. There is much demand for a high-standard camp site and investments in the field of environment protection. The plots for detached houses in Krzywiń are put out to tender by the community. The local plan of spatial management provides for the construction of a detached houses estate and small service shops in Krzywiń. In the surroundings of the estate a 20-hectare area is being prepared by the local government, meant for modern, ecologically trouble free industry and sports and recreational structures.