unseco heritage jawor (jauer) + easter in poland

a short easter visit to poland (PL). our stops this time:

• jawor (jauer) - unseco heritage wooden timber-framed evangelic peace church built in 1654 + 1655. there have been three such churches, which the victorious catholics granted to the evangelic population after the end of the Thirty Years' War 1618-1648 (just from wood, built wihin 1 year, self financed, outside of the city center, etc ... as long as i remember the story abt the 2nd peace church from nearby schweidnitz / swidnica we've seen last year correctly. the 3rd one in glogau (glogow) was destroyed by fire in 1758). anyway, we love lower silesia 💕 and spent every year few days here at our way to lodz (2018 + 1993).
• alexsandrow lodzki + ruda bugaj
• lodz (2023) - manufaktura 
• lasow castle ~ palac lasow ~ schloss lissa, built 1593 in the renaissance style - in this cheap workmen accommodation i could feel & see the former majestic beauty and the lack of money needed to restore this wonderful object direct at the german-polish border close to the higway cross at görlitz / zgorzelec close to the nysa river (neisse)
• zgorzelec (görlitz) + border at the nysa river (neisse) ~ i've been to the german part of görlitz in saxony many years ago and can still remember its nice rectangular old city square. i've no digital memories, pictures or the like i could link here. sorry for that.

unesco heritage evangelic church in jawor (jauer), built 1654-1655

unfortunatelly closed in the winter months, 

the friedenskirche jauer (westfälischer frieden, 1648)

coat of arms. jauer's patron holy martin shares his coat with a beggar

on the road ... easter eggs at the market square in jawor (jauer)

on the road ... easter bunnies 😄

cafe augusta in one evangelic church's building

cafe / restaurant / bar augusta

on the road in today's jauer (jawor)

the catholic church in the city center

rathaus jauer - town hall in jawor - ratusz w jaworze

town hall. at least no ukrainian & israeli flags like in so many german cities

main market square

the city center looks/feels completely like the bigger hirschberg / jelenia gora, my dears.

i 💖 arches

town hall's restaurant, jawor (jauer), PL

town hall jauer, ratusz jawor, PL

town hall again and last time as well 😉

beautiful colors out there ...

colors, colors, colors ...

the currency says a lot about a country, you know? what we see is that poland's zloty

 and europe/germany's euro are developing quite similar (screenshot form 26.03.2024)

highway bridge in wroclaw (breaslau). 

you still remember the dwarfs of wrocLOVE?

on the road .. tired ...

colors, colors, colors ...

lodz, manufaktura

easter time in poland

lodz, hospital ... my mother in law inside

ruda bugaj

the school in ruda bugaj. the ukraine war is close, isnt it?

palace to sell in lodz at the lake arturowek in park lagiewniky

 lasow castle (palac lasow, schloss lissa) at the DE-PL border close to görlitz

lasow castle is a cheap workmen accomodation today.

schloss lissa at the DE-PL border close to görlitz

breakfast in one of the rooms in main house

this hall is closed in winter time as it is to expensive to heat it

the courtyard in lasow castle

i've seen 2 or 3 deer in castle's park in the morning ...

i love old castles. can you see + feel it? i've to told ya s.th., ok? my wife wanted

to stay in a highway hotel directly at the border cross instead, because it would

be sooo convenient to continue the journey in the morning. shame on her! 😇

lets explain the WWII created border at nysa river (neisse) by means of the cities zgorzelec, PL + görlitz, DE. i will use the picture/engraving from 1575 below. the major part of görlitz (saxony) was behind the nysa river, a small part which protected the bridge on the other side. the city developed over the centuries further and there is quite a big new görlitz from the other side, too. then the ugly WWII came, ended and the german survivors had to leave their homes + move to parts of germany, which stayed german after the unconditional capitulation of hitler's wehrmacht. they have been replaced by poles who themselves were expelled from polish settled parts of today's lithuania + ukraine. so sad for both nations, isnt it? thus lets STOP WARS, my dears 😇

Colorized engraving of 1575 showing the city of Görlitz in Saxony (Germany).

View from the east. Author Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590). source wikipedia public domain

zgorzelec, PL

zgorzelec, PL

house of the culture in zgorzelec, PL

nysa + zgorzelec, PL

nysa river (neisse) is the border DE-PL between

germany (left side) and poland (right side) after WWII

neise + görlitz, DE

görlitz, DE

görlitz, DE

it looks like the (much poorer) poland, but it is görlitz, DE, indeed.

görlitz, DE

few more pictures here.