Jarocin - Definition and Overview

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

Jarocin Festival

The town became famous in the 1980s thanks to the Jarocin Festival, one of the first rock and punk music festival in the Eastern Bloc countries.

Education

• Wielkopolska Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna

Famous people

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

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