Chojna - Chojna

Chojna is a city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship on the Soldiner Lake District.

background

Chojna (speak keuna), formerly Koenigsberg in the Neumark, is a city in western Poland. The beginnings go back to the 10th century. The town charter was granted after 1200. Since 1270 the city belonged to the Electorate of Brandenburg, from 1701 to the Kingdom of Prussia. Königsberg (Neumark) had been the district town since 1809. 80% destroyed in World War II, the city came after 1945 as Chojna to Poland.

getting there

By plane

By train

• Railway station with connection to the Polish network. Several times a day regional trains from Kostrzyn (40 minutes) and Stettin (50 minutes), twice a day TLK (one of them at night) from Wroclaw (5½ hours) via Zielona Góra (2:25 hours) and from Swinoujscie (2:25 hours) .

By bus

• Connection to the domestic bus network

In the street

• by car or bike across the border crossings Hohenwutzen and Schwedt

mobility

Gas stations

• Orlen petrol station at 41 Jagiellonska Street
• Gas stations on the frontier market in Osinow Dolny (Niederwutzen) at the Hohenwutzen border crossing

Tourist Attractions

Churches, mosques, synagogues, temples

• Parish Church of St. Mary
• Trinity Church in the former Augustinian monastery

Buildings

• Brama Brankowska City Gate (Barnikow Gate)
• City gate Brama Swiecka (Schwedter Tor
• Parts of the city wall
• Old Town Hall (Ratusz)
• Former Augustinian monastery

kitchen

• restaurant Rycerska in the vaulted cellar of the old town hall
• restaurant Piastowska at ul.Jagiellonska 30

accommodation

security

• Police station at ul. Jagiellonska

health

Practical advice

• Tourist information office at ul Jagiellonska 2

• Post office at ul.Roosevelta 2

trips

literature