Chelmno

The first written mention of the city dates back to 1065 .

The name of the city means "city on a hill" ^[1] .

From 1772 to 1920 (with a break in 1807 - 1815 ) and in 1940 - 1945 it bore the German name Kulm (Culm).

The appearance and development of Kulm law is connected with the city.

Well preserved medieval city ​​walls with a length of 2270 meters (XIII-XIV centuries, reconstructed in the XVI century). 17 fortress towers have been preserved, some of them are ruins ^[2] . The most famous are the Grudziad Gate ( XIII century ), the oldest Merseburg Gate, open for tourists to the Maiden Tower (in the alley on May 3rd) and the Powder Tower (end of the XIII century). On the Market Square is one of the most beautiful Polish Renaissance town halls , built in 1567-1572 on the site of the old Gothic tower of the 13th century.

In the city there is a female Cisterian - Benedictine monastery , a Gothic chapel of St. Martin, a church of the Holy Spirit of the 13th century, a Franciscan church of St. James and Nicholas, rebuilt in the 19th century in neo-Gothic style , a neo-Romanesque garrison church of the Czestochowa Mother of God of the 19th century, a Dominican church of St. Peter and , Cathedral of the Assumption Cathedral of the XIII century, the oldest in Pomerania, which became the model for the construction of the Koenigsberg Cathedral and cemetery of Soviet soldiers , which lie 1284 dead soldiers t and officers.

• Erkert, Rodrig Fedorovich (1821-1900) - Russian ethnographer and cartographer.
• Guderian, Heinz Wilhelm - military figure
• Wach, Adolf (1843-1926) - German lawyer.

• The official page of the city .