Wąbrzeski poviat - poviat in Poland, in in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, created in 1999 as part of an administrative reform. His seat is Wąbrzeźno.
Coat of arms of the Wąbrzeski poviat
An administrative division
The poviat consists of:
Municipal communes: POL Wąbrzeźno COA.svg Wąbrzeźno Rural communes: POL Dębowa Łąka commune COA.svg Dębowa Łąka, POL Książ commune COA.png Books, POL Płużnica commune COA.svg Płużnica, POL Ryńsk commune COA.svg Rynsk town: POL Wąbrzeźno COA .svg Wąbrzeźno
Neighboring counties
POL Grudziądz District COA.svg Grudziądz District POL Chełmno District COA.svg Chełmno District POL Toruń District COA.svg Toruń District POL Golub-Dobrzyński District COA.svg Golub-Dobrzyński District POL Brodnica District COA.svg Brodnica District
Worth seeing
in Wąbrzeźno
Monuments st. Apostles Simon and Jude Thaddeus
The ruins of the castle - the seat of the Chełmno bishops, the ruins of the castle on Góra Zamkowa, built in the first half of the 14th century. Until 1660, the castle served as the seat of the Chełmno bishops. Unfortunately, the war damage and the transfer of the bishop's seat to the residence in Lubawa caused its slow destruction. Currently, a small cluster of castle ruins has been preserved, which in 2010 were subjected to archaeological research. (more information in the article History of Wąbrzeźno)
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Pregnancy - the Church of the Holy Apostles Simon and Jude Tadeusz - built by the Chełmno bishops in the years 1323-1349. In the temple there is a miraculous image of Our Lady of Pregnancy from the 17th century and numerous monuments of sacred art from the 16th-19th centuries. Particularly noteworthy is the recently restored statue of the Mother of God with the Child, transferred from the chapel of the non-existent castle from around 1500. Next to the church, there is a monument to Christ of Warsaw, funded in 1948 by the inhabitants of the city, on the pedestal of which there are plaques with the names of victims of World War II from the area of Wąbrzeźno.
A post-Evangelical church dedicated to Our Lady, Queen of Poland, built in 1836 as an Evangelical church, later the seat of the diocese of this denomination. From 1945, a Roman Catholic church. The interior is decorated with a painting of Our Lady of Crespi, a painting of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, neo-Gothic side altars from 1900 and 1908 and a stained glass window from the 19th century depicting the figures of Peter and Paul.
Town Hall - erected at ul. Wolności, was built in 1892 in the neo-Gothic style, of red unplastered brick. It was built as a copy of the Kiel City Hall. Decorated with decorative bricks and turrets. On the town hall tower there is a clock and the city's coat of arms designed by Ziemowit Maślanka. Currently the seat of the municipal self-government authorities;
Monument of the Polish Soldier - located in the central point of the city on John Paul II Square. Its ceremonial unveiling took place on September 14, 1947. The author of the monument is a famous sculptor from Toruń, prof. Ignacy Zelek, incl. creator of the sculptural decorations of the garrison church of St. Catherine in Toruń. The monument is one of the few examples of secular works by this artist. It shows a soldier of the Polish Army and four figures standing on a pedestal in the form of a flattened cube. The base of the monument is inscribed on the front with a large inscription in three lines: FIGHTERS FOR FREEDOM, BUILDER OF PEACE, 1939-1945, above which there is a silhouette of an eagle. The monument, having an apparently secular dimension, is given a special character by hidden religious symbolism. A Latin cross was carved below the inscription. It is also worth noting that the monument itself is built on a Greek cross plan [13]
numerous tenement houses from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and public utility buildings, including:
Family home of Nobel Prize winner Walther Nernst
pastorówka at ul. Wolności, built in the years 1893-1894 as the administrative seat of the parish, and later of the Evangelical diocese, the court building at ul. Wolności, built in 1880 for the purpose of the seat of the municipal court, the building of the police, at ul. Wolności, built in the first half of the 19th century. Primary School no. 2, at ul. Wolności built in 1914, the building of the poviat starosty for Evangelical students, at ul. Wolności, built in 1890 for the purpose of the poviat authorities' seat, the high school building at ul. Wolności, built in 1896, has retained its original appearance to this day. Currently, it houses the seat of the Zespół Szkół Ogólnokształcące im. Zygmunt Działowski, the post office at ul. 1 Maja, the Klimków house built in 1892 in the neo-Gothic style, at ul. 1 Maja, the building of the County Sanitary and Epidemiological Station, erected at the beginning of the 20th century in the Art Nouveau style, at ul. 1 Maja - formerly the "Victoria" hotel, which belonged to the city's representative buildings, most of the townhouses located around John Paul II Square, were built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of them have retained their original appearance