Jarocin

Infobox Settlement
name = Jarocin

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imagesize = 250px
image_caption = Town Hall
image_shield = POL Jarocin COA.svg
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pushpin_label_position = bottom
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Greater Poland
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Jarocin County
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Gmina Jarocin
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Adam Michał Pawlicki
established_title = Established
established_date = 13th century
established_title3 = Town rights
established_date3 = 1257
area_total_km2 = 14.44
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 25834
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd = 51 | latm = 58 | lats = | latNS = N | longd = 17 | longm = 30 | longs = | longEW = E
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 63-200
area_code = +48 62
blank_name = Car plates
blank_info = PJA
website = http://www.jarocin.pl/ Jarocin [IPA-pl|j|a|'|r|o|ć|i|n] ( _de. 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).

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.

Education

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People

*Eduard Lasker (1829-1884), politician
*Stanisław Taczak (1874-1960), general from Mieszków, near Jarocin
*Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006), opera singer

External links

* [http://www.jarocin.pl/ Site of Jarocin's Municipal Office]