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The lake and a beach in Kneblowo

The lake is situated in the neighbourhood of Zielnowo and Radzyń Chełmiński. A small lake with a swimming area, surrounded by fields, trees and bushes. When the weather is hot and sunny lots of people come here to sunbathe and swim, as well as spend a great time with their families and friends.

The Gate in Dębieniec

The Gate was built in a classicist style, made of brick and stones, and originally plastered. The passage includes a pair of columns and pillars tightened with semi-columns supporting entablature with frieze on which a stucco plant decoration is visible. A low front includes a ruined coat of arms cartouche and is topped with a flower vase.

Saint Lawrence’s Chapel in Dębieniec

The Chapel was built at the pond on an artificial peninsula in 1862. The Neo-Gothic chapel is made of brick and plastered, with a three-sided east-oriented apse and a squared porch on the west. There are stepped gables on the west side and in the niche, a stone statue of Saint Lawrence. Above the porch entrance, a stone bas-reliefs of a head of an angel, two griffins supporting an IHS monogram with a date 1688 and an illegible surname are visible. Inside the Chapel there are three Rococo altars, including the main altar and two side altars. Moreover, two tin candlesticks and a baroque painting of Our Lady of Sorrows can be found in the Chapel.

A Palace in Dębieniec

A two-winged building made of brick and plastered. On the eastern side, at the front of the building there is a ground floor part with a terrace and a turret and on the southern side, a storied wing added in 1910. In both wings there are hallways adorned with coffered ceilings with stucco rosettes supported by pillars. On the exterior part of the building cornices with wooden corbels and coffered rosettes under eaves are visible. The tower with four pinnacles is topped with a domed canopy. A saddle roof is covered with steel sheets and ruberoid roofing materials.

A building at 6 The Dąbrowski Street

The oldest house in town, made of wood and plastered, dating back to the half of the 19th century. In his adolescent years, a Polish social-cultural activist, journalist and editor Wiktor Kulerski stayed here. Therefore the building gained a name “the Kulerski house”.

The Dąbrowski Street

Once there was a date 1899 carved on the wall as the year of the erection of the building. When the Russian Army occupied the town, the basements of the building were converted into prison. Here, people under the sentence of deportation to Siberia were imprisoned. The commanding officer of NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs) lived upstairs.

The Dąbrowski Street (on the corner of John Paul II Street)

A school building erected in Prussian times after 1871. After France was defeated in a war, pursuant to the peace treaty of Frankfurt signed on 10th May 1871, Prussia received huge war reparations. Money was used to build different new buildings, including school. During the II World War a hospital was situated in the building, therefore John Paul II Street was previously named Szpitalna Street (Hospital Street).

A building at 24 Piłsudski Street

At the end of January 1945 general Pavel Ivanowich Batov, the commander of the 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, stayed in that building. He had chosen that building because of its perfect location to watch the area on the north. To facilitate the observation, two holes in the roof were made and special periscopes were installed.

A building at 10 Piłsudski Street

The building was erected in 1906. Once, as in Roman buildings, there was a bath on the ground floor and a library on the first floor. In the 1950s, a Polish writer Eugeniusz Paukszta, often visited this place and wrote there his historical novel about the Thirteen Year’s War titled “Znaki ogniste”.

A building at Plac Towarzystwa Jaszczurczego 18

The building was erected in 1909 by the director of the primary school named Krause. Around 1920 he left Radzyń Chełmiński and went to Sopot and the building became a residence of the nuns from Pleszew, who were brought in by the priest named Mańkowski.