Jarocin

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Jarocin(German: Jarotschin) is a town in central Poland with 25,700 inhabitants (1995). Situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Kalisz Voivodeship (1975-1998).

Contents 1 Jarocin Festival 2 Education 3 Famous people 4 External links

[edit] Jarocin Festival

The town became famous in the 1980s thanks to the Jarocin Festival, one of the first rock and punk music festivals in (then under the communist rule) Eastern Bloc countries. The first one was organised in 1980.

[edit] Education

• Wielkopolska Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna

[edit] Famous people

• Eduard Lasker

• Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

• Stanisław Taczak, Polish general and commander-in-chief of the Great Poland Uprising (1918-1919) - born on 8 April 1874 in Mieszków near Jarocin

[edit] External links

• Site of Jarocin's Municipal Office

Coordinates: 51°58′N, 17°30′E