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.

castle tuczno (tütz) + northwest poland (westpreussen), PL

we take a two nights break in castle tuczno (tütz) + northwest poland (western prussia / westpreussen) before we continued from lodz via poznan to the baltic sea.

 castle tuczno

castle tuczno (schloss tütz, former name tietz) was 400 years the possession of the family von wedel (1338 bis 1739) in western prussia (westpreußen)

on the road in northern poland (western prussia + pomerania)

it was really cold there in the castle and my wife and me were the most time the only guests in the hotel. of course, there was no party planned, we knew that before .... but yes, if your car s is the only vehicle at the customer parking place and your steps the only sound in the empty corridors, you will probably think if this is the right place to be, wouldn't you? anyway, the castle ghosts were on vacation. probably at the nearby magic hill, where all objects roll up the hill (see pictures below).

we have spend the New Year's Eve (silvesternacht) in front of a fireplace. it was sooo cold in the castle, anyway ...

enjoy few pictures from the castle and the western prussia ...

huta, restaurant mlyn (mill) 

 castle tuczno

 

 looking for the castle ghosts in the warehouse at the top floor

good-bye, dear ghosts. good-bye, old castle ....

the mill in tuczno

the church in tuczno

 the are 3 lakes in tuczno, we walked around the smallest one

 ... coming back to our castle hotel

 our car is the one and only on the customer parking place => good-bye, tuczno :-)

magic hill, where all objects roll up the hill

city of walcz

leaving prussia and moving forward to pomerania (pommern)

entering the city center of gryfice (greifenberg in pommern)

good-bye, gryfice

more pictures here
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