Jarocin

Jarocin
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See also: Jarocin, Subcarpathian Voivodeship

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Jarocin

Town Hall

Coat of arms

Jarocin

Coordinates: 51°58′N 17°30′E / 51.967, 17.5

Country

Poland

Established

Town rights

1257

Government

- Mayor

Adam Michał Pawlicki

Area

- Total

14.44 km² (5.6 sq mi)

Population (2006)

- Total

25,834

- Density

1,789.1/km² (4,633.6/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

- Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

Postal code

63-200

Area code(s)

+48 62

Car plates

PJA

Website: http://www.jarocin.pl/

Jarocin jaˈrɔt͡ɕin (German: Jarotschin) is a town in central Poland with 25,700 inhabitants (1995). It is situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in Kalisz Voivodeship (1975-1998).

1 History
2 Jarocin Festival
3 Education
4 People
5 External links

History

Jarocin was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in the 1793 Second Partition of Poland and administered within South Prussia. It was part of the Duchy of Warsaw from 1807–13 during the Napoleonic Wars, but was restored to Prussia afterward.

The town was included within the Grand Duchy of Posen from 1815 and the Province of Posen from 1848. It became part of the German Empire in 1871. In 1889 it was included within the newly-created Jarotschin District of the Province of Posen.

Jarocin participated in the Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919) and had the first soldiers' council in the Province of Posen. It was subsequently included in the Second Polish Republic.

The town was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1939 during World War II and administered within Reichsgau Wartheland. Many Poles, especially Jews, were expelled and replaced with ethnic Germans from the Baltic states, Volhynia, and Bukovina. Jarocin was restored to Poland with the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Jarocin Festival

The town became famous in the 1980s thanks to the Jarocin Festival, one of the first rock and punk music festivals in communist Eastern Bloc countries. The first one was organised in 1980.