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The neoclassical building located along the west wing of the central complex replaced a wooden structure that had been used by municipal police since the early eighteenth century. It was erected in the years 1786-1787 to the design by a renowned Warsaw architect Jan Chrystian Kamsetzer. The initiative was undertaken by Kazimierz Raczyński, the governor of Wielkopolska, who also financed the project. Raczyński's coat of arms (the Nałęcz) commands the attic alongside the coat of arms of Poland and Poznań.

Until World War II, the guardhouse adjoined butcher's stalls on the east that had existed there for almost seven hundred years. Today it houses the Museum of the Wielkopolska Uprising 1918-1919, a branch of the Wielkopolska Museum of Independence Struggles.