It has several holiday sites and sailing clubs, and a significant number of mainly detached houses.

After signing the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807, Napoleon created the Duchy of Warsaw in whose borders Kiekrz found itself.

The defeat of Napoleon and later the provisions of the Congress of Vienna caused Kiekrz to fall under the jurisdiction of the King of Prussia as part of the Grand Duchy of Poznań in 1815, where it remained until the 1850s.

At the end of World War I Kiekrz along with the villages on the north-western shore of the lake became part of Gmina Rokietnica.

The general of the division of the Red Army that entered Kiekrz organised a meeting to appoint a local militia.

The image of Kiekrz in February 1945 was a saddening one with huge losses caused by the Nazi occupation.

On 1 January 2011 the borders of the Kiekrz Housing Estate were changed according to the 2010 Poznań reform of auxiliary units.

The former village church (St. Michael the Archangel and Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) is located in the centre; its provost is the Rev.

The original church of St. Michael, built on the highest point in Kiekrz (92.7 metres above sea level), was made out of wood.

At the end of the sixteenth century the local landowners, the Kierscy family, built a brick church consecrated by Bishop Suffragan of Poznań in the year 1591, as the church of St. Michael the Archangel and Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

A painting of St. Michael (original by Raphael), the patron saint of the parish, adorns the altar.

A painting of the Holy Family and that of Anthony of Padua (eighteenth century) adorn the walls of the presbytery.

The side altars feature paintings of the Assumption of Mary and St. John of Nepomuk (eighteenth century).

The only remaining part of the original Kiekrz Manor from before the demolition is the outbuilding from the eighteenth century.

It is a brick building one-storeyed house, with a basement and an attic with a steep hip roof with dormers.

Their estate consisted of fields, forests, the lake and a small river known then as the Ford (Bród).

One can therefore assume that the Kiekrz Park, now the property of the Rehabilitation Hospital for Children, owes its current appearance to its German owners.

The Ciechanowscy family funded a shrine in honour of the Virgin Mary by a special path in the park.

In 1928 the Ciechanowscy family sold the mansion and the surrounding estate to the health maintenance organization of the city of Poznań.

A preventorium for children was then built there which functioned until the outbreak of World War II.

The Polish Army did not get the chance to use it, because German forces entered Kiekrz without fighting in the first days of September.

In February 1945 the Urban Social Committee in Poznań turned the pre-war preventorium into an orphanage.

As of a 1 January 1950 decision of the Ministry of Health, the State Sanatorium Against Tuberculosis in Kiekrz was created, which could house 150 patients.

The sanatorium owned a small holding where pigs were kept for the nutritional requirements of the patients and staff.

The landscape park – with an extensive clearing in the middle on the slopes, on which old isolated trees grow – was renewed circa 1900.

The park probably also existed as part of the old manor and outbuildings in the second half of the nineteenth century.

The valleys of these lakes were formed by melting glaciers thousands of years ago.

It is a very important reservoir for water sports, mainly sailing and iceboats in the winter season.