City of Leszno
The town belonged to the Leszczyński family from the 14th to the 18th century. In the 16th and 17th centuries the town was an important centre of the Reformation with the famous grammar school of Amos Komeński and a thriving printing centre. It owed its development to the openness of the town's owners, who settled here the Bohemian Brethren, Lutherans and Jews, and nurtured the development of crafts and trade stimulated by an appropriate tax policy. Destroyed many times by fires and foreign invasions, it was rebuilt many times, gaining a modern face with numerous valuable buildings within the modern fortifications. At the time of the partitions, it was to become an agricultural base for the Prussian state. However, it was still the largest publishing centre for Polish publications next to Poznań.
