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The district is cut through by national road No. 10 leading from Szczecin to Warsaw. This road connects Wyrzysk with Pila (37 km) and Bydgoszcz (55 km). The railway station in Osiek nad Notecia also provides a railway connection with Pila (39 km) and Bydgoszcz (48 km).
The district lies in Krajna Plateau . Its southern border is formed by the River Notec with its tributary, the Lobzonka, which cuts through the picturesque moraine hills rising over the wide valley of the Notec. One of these hills, Debowa Góra, reaches a height of 192 metres above sea level and is the highest elevation of the Krajna Region. Over 60 per cent of the district is protected as an area of scenic beauty.
Conditions favourable for human settlement occurred in the present Wyrzysk Region in the postglacial period. Its relics are now left on the moraine hills along the Notec River. Archaeological excavations in the village of Zulawka revealed that humans arrived here as early as nine thousand years ago. Soon they built a permanent crossing over the Notec. Those wooden bridges in the vicinity of present Zulawka were maintained by people settling in this area for the following 3,500 years, which is a unique example of engineering skills in prehistoric Europe.
In the Middle Ages the Notec became a natural border between the regions of Greater Poland and Pomerania, which long resisted the expansion of the Polish Piast dynasty, German margraves, and since the 13th century also the Teutonic KnightsThe Teutonic Order ( German: Deutscher Orden Latin: Ordo domus Sanctae Mariae Theutonicorum was a crusading order of knights under Roman Catholic religious vows which was formed at the end of the 12th century in Palestine to give medical aid to pilgrims t. With time, people adopted the name Krajna for the area to the north of the Notec. The Polish prince Boleslaw the Wrymouth (1106-1138) conquered the castles on the Notec and incorporated Krajna into his state. Over the following centuries, Krajna was connected with Greater Poland.
The first preserved mention of Wyrzysk dates back to 1326Events Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Osman I ( 1299-1326) to Orhan I (1326- 1359) Births Pope Gregory XII Deaths November 25 Prince Koreyasu, 7th Kamakura shogun of Japan 1326.; the name of the place was then recorded in the so-called Greater Poland Codex. Wyrzysk was probably granted the royal charter before 1450Events March French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, in Caen April 15 Battle of Formigny. French troops under the Comte de Clermont defeat an English army under Sir Thomas Kyriel and; in 1565Events March 1 the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded April 27 Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. August 28 St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), established. It is the oldest remaining European it became a town under the so-called Magdeburg law. As a result of series of wars in the second half of 17th century16th century 17th century 18th century more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601- 1700. During this period, the power of England and the United Provinces increased; while that of and beginning of 18th Wyrzysk became in fact a village. Wyrzysk was annexed by PrussiaThe word Prussia ( German: Preussen (Preussen Polish: Prusy Lithuanian: Prusai Latin: Borussia has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia in 1772 following the first Partition of Poland. The city rights were renewed in 1773 by the Prussian King Frederick the Great who made the town a centre administering the construction of the Bydgoszcz Canal and the regulation of the Notec. From 1807 to 1815 the town was a part of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw and subsequently it was given back to Prussia as a result of Congress of Vienna. It remained Prussian until the end of First World War.
In 1772, after the first partition of Poland, Krajna was incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia. The Prussian ruler and his successors aimed at fast Germanisation of the captured land. The methods which served this purpose included the introduction of Prussian administration and education, encouraging and supporting Prussian settlement and purchase of estates from the Polish gentry. Thus Wyrzysk was sold by Karol Rydzynski to King Frederick II himself as early as 1773. In 1807-1815 the Wyrzysk area belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 it was recaptured by the Prussians. In 1818 Wyrzysk became the seat of a county in the Grand Duchy of Poznan.
The period of Prussian rule accelerated the economic development and progress, especially in agriculture, in which the Prussians abolished the law of corvée at the beginning of the 19th century. The conflict arose especially during the Kulturkampf period. However, the pressure of Germanisation encountered the growing resistance of the Polish population of Krajna, which stuck doggedly to its native language and the Roman Catholic religion. This found expression in establishing Polish associations, choirs, sports clubs, banks and self-help organizations.
Wyrzysk was given to new re-born Poland by Treaty of Versailles, although 53 percent of its population were Germans at that time. Most of them preferred to move to Germany as so called optants. From 1939 to 1945 the city was occupied by Germany and was put into the new created province of Danzig-West Prussia. Wyrzysk has been recovered by Poland in 1945.