Thursday, January 2, 2025

tczew (dirschau) + leczyca, poland, PL

on the way back from the polish baltic sea, we have visited tczew nad wisla (dierschau, zursau) an der weichsel - a city in historical western prussia (in pomerania aka pommern) in northern poland, PL. according to wikipedia, here we are 30 km from the baltic sea and 16m above the sea level. the wisla river itself is just 3m above the sea level here. nice for tczew, the folks build up a dyke (damm), so there were no floods in the recent years ... unlike the many floods in the young years of the waitress we spoke to in the riverside restaurant 😄

enjoy few pictures from this originally slavic (polish), after its conquest by the teutonic knights german and today again polish settled city, will you?

the market place in tzew (dierschau), northern PL
nice colors in the suburbs of tczew 😃
a windmill in tzew - dierschau, PL
the 1st nice bridge in tczew.
this one is over railway tracks.
many red-brick houses here in the north, you see?
the neo-gothic post office building
the city hall - town hall, tczew
the market square in tczew (dierschau), northern PL 
weichselbrücke, the prussian bridge over
the vistula river in 1858 (source wikipedia)
the 2nd nice bridge in tczew (dirschau), isnt it?
wisla river one hour later ...
still tczew or somewhere further down the road? who knows?

WC wisdom #1
leczyca, coat of arms with devil diabel boruta 👹, who was and still
is appointed to guard the castle's gold treasure, central poland, PL
leczyca castle, central poland, PL
town hall + market square, leczyca

there was not much open for food at that late evening in leczyca, so we stayed in a central asian kebab house with dark statures inside and outside of it like in berlin-kreuzberg ... we were worried if this guys would steal or break our car 🚗, but nothing happened 😄. well, strange foreigners are normal in western europe these days, but not so common for poland, if you asked me ... 

few more pictures here.

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