Rożnowo | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Greater Poland |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Oborniki |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Oborniki |
Coordinates: | 52.6811°N 16.8678°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Population Total: | 1500 |
Rożnowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oborniki, within Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5km (03miles) north-east of Oborniki and 320NaN0 north of the regional capital Poznań.
Rożnowo is best known as the birthplace of Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski, a military leader and brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was a first cousin to composer Frédéric Chopin.