Nowe Skalmierzyce
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Greater Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Ostrów Wielkopolski | ||
| Gmina : | Nowe Skalmierzyce | ||
| Area : | 1.59 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 43 ′ N , 18 ° 0 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 4817 | ||
| Postal code : | 63-460 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 62 | ||
| License plate : | POS | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Ostrów Wielkopolski - Kalisz | ||
| Rail route : | Łódź – Ostrów Wielkopolski | ||
| Next international airport : | Wroclaw | ||
| Administration (as of 2007) | |||
| Mayoress : | Bożena Budzik | ||
| Website : | www.noweskalmierzyce.pl | ||
Nowe Skalmierzyce (German 1908–20 Neu Skalmierschütz , 1940–43 Neu Skalden , 1943–45 Kalmen ) is a small town in Poland in the powiat Ostrowski in the Greater Poland Voivodeship .
The population of Nowe Skalmierzyce is about 4800. Until 2009, the city was the seat of the town-and-country municipality Nowe Skalmierzyce .
Attractions
The old town of Nowe Skalmierzyce is rich in sights. These include:
- the Corpus Christi Church ( kościół Bożego Ciała ) built between 1925 and 1927
- the neo-baroque former Protestant Church of Our Lady ( kościół Najświętszej Marii Panny Nieustającej Pomocy ) from the beginning of the 19th century
- the 1873 remodeled St. Catherine's Church ( kościół św. Katarzyny ) from 1791 in the district of Skalmierzyce
- the neo-Gothic train station built between 1904 and 1909
- the monument of the Wielkopolska insurgents
- the memorial of the fallen aviators for Karol P. Gębik, Franciszek Jakusz-Gostomski, Ludwik H. Misiak, Wiktor Jabłoński, Kazimierz Pacut, Zdzisław Kuczkowski and Henryk Fojer who died on September 15, 1943 in the crash of a Halifax bomber (No. JD154) of the British Air Force were killed in Nowe Skalmierzyce
- the monument of Pope John Paul II
Web links
Commons : Nowe Skalmierzyce - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ The train station in Nowe Skalmierzyce . From: http://www.noweskalmierzyce.pl , accessed April 28, 2020