kluczbork (kreuzburg), upper silesia, PL

at our way home from the polish baltic sea, we've visited the city kluczbork ~ kreuzburg (also creutzburg, creuzburg) in upper silesia (schlesien, slask), poland, PL

 

we've had lunch in the town hall's building in a historic style restaurant and then enjoyed shopping and sightseeing out there ... why town hall? i love the town halls' cellar restaurants and we've been in many different already. this time it was not in the city hall's cellar but 'just' at the ground floor, but at least it was the town hall's restaurant, wouldnt you say? ... why shopping this time? well, my wife coerced me to buy 2 jackets + 4 shirts as she thinks my clothes at home are already kaput. as we have joint accounts, it is rather a question of conviction than question of money, you see? at least we've got a nice tie for free from the pretty shop assistant 👩

what abt some history? well, there were the celts, vandals, slavic folks (esp. polish), germans, ... in 1252 bought the bohemian & austrian knights of the cross with the red star (crusaders of the red star) some lands in wrocLOVE (wroclaw, breslau) and silesia, thus is 1253 (or in some sources 1252) the year of kluczborks birth. this military order was the worldwide only male order founded by a woman, the bohemian princess holy agnes of bohemia (agnes von prag). a princess with a quite interesting CV, which tells so much abt the european medieval king families.

enjoy few pictures:

a nice church in the very city center

town hall + market square in kluczbork (kreuzburg)

on the road to kluczbork

kluczbork castle

town hall + market square in kluczbork (kreuzburg)

city's guardian?

two of us?

castle + red-brick houses

knights of the cross with the red star

few moe pictures here.

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.