Kamieniec, Grodzisk Wielkopolski County
Kamieniec ( German stone village; 1943-1945 Wiesenstein village) is a village and seat of the rural community in the powiat Grodziski in the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
History
The village was first mentioned Kamieniec 1303 existed in 1510 there already a church. Former name of the place were Kamencz or Kamones.
In the period 1871-1918, when this area was part of the Prussian province of Posen, the villages of the rural community Kamieniec belonged predominantly to the then district Schmiegel.
Even if temporarily, the German name stone village was introduced for Kamieniec the time of the German occupation from 1939 to 1945, is nowhere proves that the name Kamieniec kamień from the Polish word meaning stone derives ( even though Kamieniec the word, a verb that exists with the German meaning " petrify "). The earlier names have nothing to do with it. In the years 1975 to 1998 was under the local administration of the then province Leszno.
Community
The administrative center is the village Kamieniec. On 30 June 2004 lived in the rural community of 6,482 people, including 3,250 women and 3,232 men, which corresponds to a ratio of 50.1 % women to 49.9 % men. The population density was 49 inhabitants / km ².
In 2002, the rural community Kamieniec had used an area of 132.23 km ², 81 % agricultural, 9% forest. The municipality covers 20.54 % of the total area of the circle Grodzisk Wielkopolski, or about one-fifth.
The average income of the population in 2002 amounted to PLN 1415.68.
Community leaders is Piotr Andrzej Halasz.
The following 24 villages belong to today's rural community Kamieniec:
Partner church in Germany is Dahmetal in Brandenburg.
Neighboring communities of Kamieniec are
In a circle Grodzisk Wielkopolski: Granowo, Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Rakoniewice, Wielichowo
In a circle Kościan: Kościan, Stęszew, Śmigiel