Owińska

Despite Owinska is a small village, it has several interesting sights :

Post-convent church of Cistersian nuns, nowadays a parish church of St. John the Baptist. From the Ist half of XVIIIth century. It’s been erected according to the project by Pompeo Ferrar, but the previous romanesque and gothic walls have been used as well. Rich baroque interiors, very precious wooden stalls, carved rokoko confessionals and wall-paintings done by a Poznan master from Fransiscan order : Adam Swach who originally had come from southern Bohemia. It’s worth to pay attention to the main altar with six carved columns and the statue of Our Lady on the seventh one.

The cistersian Convent, erected according to the project by George Cattenazzi. Nearby – in the park next to Warta flow, 500-years-old oak tree circumference 770 cms. Nowadays the convent places a school for blind children.

The classicistic palace – the work of the famous Berlin architect Friedrich Schinkel, next to it – an English Park 16 hectares located in the place of previous oak forest with the wet alder-tree part, established in the first years of XIXth century by Paul Lenne, the creator of e.g. gardens in Potsdam