Gnojno, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship

Gnojno is the most preferred in the north county ( a rural community ) and the main town in the district of Busko -Zdrój in Poland in the Province of the Holy Cross about 35 km southeast of Kielce and 18 km north-east of the county town of Busko -Zdrój. The population of the municipality was in 2007 4735th

History

The settlement history goes back to Roman times. Gnojno lay on the Amber Road. In historical times Gnojno first mentioned in connection with the Tartar invasion in 1341, when the local church was burned. The country was then under the rule of the Gnoiński family. Krzysztof Gnoiński left in 1540 to build a manor in which the center is housed on welfare today.

1795 fell Gnojno with the Third Partition of Poland to Austria. 1809 came to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 to the Kingdom of Poland. After the end of World War II, the place came back to the newly formed Poland.

Community

To Gnojno include the districts Balice, Bugaj, Falki, Glinka, Gorzakiew, Grabki Małe Janowice Poduszowskie, Janowice Raczyckie, Januszowice, Jarząbki, Kostera, Maciejowice, Płośnia, Poręba Pożogi, Raczyce, Ruda, Rzeszutki, Skadla, Bokrzycka Wola Wola Zofiowska, Wólka Bosowska, Zagrody, Zawada and Zofiówka. The community is dominated by agriculture; prevalent is the cultivation of potatoes.

Attractions

• The single-nave church of St. John the Baptist ( John the Baptist ) and St.. Thekla from the period around 1470, built 1596-1598 and baroque style from 1677, with a front tower and transept.
• The estate in the Renaissance style from the period around 1540.
• The Classicist manor in Balice from the 19th century.