Grodzisk Wielkopolski

Grodzisk Wielkopolski is a city in western Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship with a populace of 13,703. It is 43 kilometers south west of Poznan, the voivodeship capital. It is the seat of Grodzisk Wielkopolski County, and also of the smaller administrative district referred to as Gmina Grodzisk Wielkopolski. The suffix Wielkopolski distinguishes it from the town of Grodzisk Mazowiecki in eastern Poland. The agreement changed into first cited in 1257 with the aid of the name of Grodisze in a document with the aid of Przemysl I of Greater Poland. It became known as a village belonging to the Cistercians.

The precise date while the town received its charter is unknown. Documents say that the town certainly had its city charter in 1303. The first Jews settled in the city at the beginning of the 16^th century. The first files to back this up become in 1505, mentioning the Jew Abraham of Grodzisk in Yiddish and Hebrew, the town is called Gritz or Gritza. In 1563, the Stanislaw Ostrorog School changed into founded. In 1593, the census for Grodzisk Wielkopolski said that the population was about 1,160.