They celebrated Anna Pleszewska’s identify day. There was no scarcity of points of interest [ZDJĘCIA]

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Information The Girls’s Membership Bench No. 4 as soon as once more organized the identify day of Anna Pleszewska in Pleszew. Amongst different issues, a herstory stroll, a celebration sport and a live performance happened. The women need the vacation to grow to be a everlasting fixture within the Pleszew calendar of occasions.

This yr’s celebrations started with a gathering on Święty Ducha Road. On the bench erected a yr in the past by Anna Pleszewska, this time the princess herself sat (this position was performed by Klaudia Kaczor from the Virtually Nice Theatre in Kowalewo, already recognized to the residents of Pleszew from the Youngsters’s Day within the metropolis park). Then a stroll started via the streets of Plac Powstańców Wielkopolskich, Tyniec, Kraszewskiego, Rynek and Sienkiewicza.

Through the deliberate stops, the historian Agnieszka Słupianek-Winkowska instructed the individuals about activists related to Pleszew – Anna and Maria Suchocki, Kaźmierze Sobczak, Pelagia Michałowicz, Zofia Plecińska Tadrzyńska, Maria Radomska, Albina and Pelagia Kolipiński, Maria Białasik and Teresa Gościniak. Because the information emphasised – all of them have been characterised by the need to find and get to know the world.

– They have been efficient, lively, enterprising and open to the wants of different folks – she enumerated.

Among the many walkers, voices of shock could possibly be heard as they realized concerning the subsequent figures of the ladies from Pleszew. It was a journey via 5 centuries of the historical past of our metropolis.

A number of points of interest on the Tradition Depot throughout Anna Pleszewska’s identify day

The subsequent a part of the celebrations happened on the Tradition Depot. It was led by Patricia Walerowicz-Wojtkowiak. There was, amongst others, a lecture by Dr. Maria Molenda from the Nomina Rosae Basis entitled “Renaissance Lady and Style”, opening of the exhibition of works Violetta Tarka “Flowers for Anna”, the social sport “matched” or the live performance of the Huge Band Po Godzinach band. Everybody might discover one thing for themselves. These keen to take part might even discover “Aneczka’s cookies” or devices with the picture of Princess Anna. The shock was the studying by Aldona Janczak a poem titled “We Girls”, written particularly for this particular identify day.

The Affiliation would love these to grow to be a everlasting fixture within the Pleszew occasions calendar.

– We would like it to be an annual celebration in the course of summer season. We intend to market it to a wider space, to our area – she mentioned enigmatically Monika Matyjaszczykmembership president.

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Girls from Pleszew uncover the tales of girls from Pleszew. “We owe it to them”

The Affiliation of Girls’s Membership Ławka No. 4 was established within the fall of 2022. The ladies related in it work for the local people, invite to conferences and occasions they manage, focus on what to do to make the ladies of Pleszew reside higher. They efficiently write herstory (this time period means historical past approached from a feminist perspective, with specific emphasis on the historic position of girls).

An instance is the reminder of Anna Pleszewska and the story of her contribution to the event of our metropolis. It’s price noting that along with Anna’s identify day, this yr’s Youngsters’s Day has already taken place “at Anna’s court docket”, within the metropolis park, and within the autumn the princess would be the matron of the race as a part of the Women’ Carriage organized within the Pleszew district.

It began with a journalist Irena Kuczyńskawho, whereas studying concerning the historical past of Pleszew, got here throughout Anna Tęczyńska Raciborska.

– I described her on my weblog. When the membership was based, I instructed the women that there was a lady right here who, at first of the sixteenth century, for 30 years, was the proprietor of Pleszew, and from the inspiration of Zygmunt Stary, she based the Holy Spirit Church with a hospital. I used to be on this determine, as a result of in historical past, wars are primarily described – causes, course and results – and the profiles of males – says Irena Kuczyńska

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Anna Tęczyńska, also referred to as Anna Pleszewska, rapidly grew to become the matron of Bench No. 4.

– She was a unprecedented girl, ideally suited to our occasions. We are able to imitate her empathy, dedication, entrepreneurship, and company. She cherished touring. She was a Renaissance girl – emphasizes Monika Matyjaszczyk.

Agnieszka Słupianek-Winkowska from Brzezie, a member of the Pleszew Girls’s Membership, graduated in historical past and safety of cultural property. She is a regional historian. She researches the historical past of villages within the Pleszew district (she wrote, amongst others, “The historical past of the village of Brzezie within the gentle of sources”). She says that for a while now, defending girls’s heritage has been a precedence for her. In Pleszew, she has already led two herstory walks.

– I’ve been accumulating details about the historical past of girls from the Pleszew district for over 2 years. Earlier than, I felt unhappy on this space. Whereas delving into the historical past of Brzezie, Kajewo, Cieśli and Wszołowo, I began to suppose that we all know little about these girls. In 2018, on the event of the one centesimal anniversary of Poland regaining independence, folks began speaking extra concerning the position of girls in historical past typically. I assumed that since I’m researching my small homeland, I wish to do one thing about it regionally – she says.

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She says that there are nonetheless many profiles of the ladies of Pleszew left to be found and described.

– This work is primarily performed in state and church archives. Nevertheless, that is by no means sufficient, it’s supplemented by essential area analysis, i.e. info obtained from households via interviews – explains the historian.

On this means she managed to put in writing down, for instance, the story of Zofia Plecińska Tadrzyńska.

– Within the archive in Kalisz I found that the Folks’s Council consisted of three girls from the Pleszew district. Two have been well-known – Maria Radomska and Anna Suchocka. No person knew something about Zofia Plecińska. I discovered that it was Zofia Tadrzyńska – the one from Czerminek. Nevertheless, I nonetheless did not know a lot. I attempted to search out her descendants on Fb, I despatched messages to many individuals. One in every of them replied and it was her great-granddaughter. Due to the household I gained loads of worthwhile info. They have been very glad as a result of they did not know that their grandmother was a social activist, she labored for ladies, on the board of many associations – recollects Agnieszka Słupianek-Winkowska.

Members of the Pleszew Girls’s Membership emphasize that they’re the heirs of activists from previous centuries.

– It seems that we, girls of the twenty first century, usually are not the one ones who’re enterprising and resourceful. These earlier than us have been very creative and lively, regardless of the turmoil of wars or partitions. We’re their surrogates, descendants. We owe it to them to pave the way in which for ladies’s destinies – she says Monika Matyjaszczyk.

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The women will definitely not permit any extra girls from Pleszew to perish within the abyss of time – simply as they saved Anna Pleszewska from oblivion. Irena Kuczyńska reveals that she is already engaged on describing the story of one other extraordinary girl.

– On the finish of the 18th century, when Poland was on the breaking point, Stanisław August Poniatowski allowed settlers to come back in. On this means, Ludwika Gorzeńska, the then proprietor of Pleszew, created three villages – Zielona Łąka, Dobra Nadzieja and Ludwina. The identify of the latter village comes from her identify – zagaja.