GDANSK

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GDANSK
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GDANSK

• Gdansk is the most important city on the Baltic
  coast, creates a whole with Sopot and Gdynia
  called Tricity, is also the capital of Pomerania
  and part of the Gdansk agglomeration. It lies at
  the Gulf of Gdansk, at the mouth of the Vistula
  river and Moltawa. It is very important hub of
  communication with the port of Gdansk and the
  North at the forefront. In the city there are
  shipyards, a university with a long-standing
  tradition and historical diversity within the
  remnants of the city. Gdansk, together with other
  cities in the Tri-City, lies at the intersection
  of a few, important international routes. The
  most important and most interesting monuments are
  located within the Main and Old Town. Other
  important places are also Westerplatte, Olive
  team cathedral, and Fortress Wisloujscie. In the
  area of the capital of Pomerania there are
  numerous museums, galleries, theaters and the
  philharmonic.

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HISTORY

• The first traces of settlement at the mouth of
  the Vistula River are dated to about 2000 BC. Its
  convenient location has made it a dynamically
  developing the settlement.        For the first
  time in the history of Gdansk emerged as the urbs
  Gyddanyzc more than 1,000 years ago in connection
  with the arrival here of Saint Adalbert in the
  997 on going up to Chrystianic Prussia mission.
  Even then, as a Pomeranian fortress at the border
  with pagan Prussia, it was a city where you could
  meet people of different nationalities and
  religions. Gdansk was then a major port
  settlement, surrounded by massive wooden
  fortifications. Excellent location at the mouth
  of Motlawa, at the mouth of the western part of
  the Vistula River and the fact that it was the
  capital of the Duchy of Pomerania District,
  allowed the rapid development of the city and
  port. It was a trade-craft businesses colony,
  which gave Duke Svatopluk Pomeranian, probably
  around mid-thirteenth century, a town (Lübeck).
  At that time there were already two colonies,
  probably an urban village centered around the
  church of St. Katarzyna at today's fish markets
  and the second covering the southern part of the
  Main Cities of the port along Motlawa between
  Green Gate and cranes. Gdansk was united with
  the Kingdom of Poland in 1294, as a result of
  giving out Gdansk in his will by the last prince
  Msciwoj II to the future king Przemyslaw II.

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CULTURE

• Gdansk is one of the largest cultural centers in
  the northern Poland. There are a few theaters
  here , seven cinemas, the Opera, and philharmonic
  orchestra. For tourists equally important is the
  possibility of visiting the vast amount of
  museums, documenting the stormy past of the town.
  Gdansk is also an important choir center in
  which several groups actively work. City prestige
  is enhanced by various types of festivals and
  events ranging from Shakespeare Festival, the
  Market of St. Domenic, to the Festival of the
  Good Sense of Humor.

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ECONOMY

• Gdansk is one of the most important economic
  centers in the Baltic Sea region. Already the
  first records proved the existence of the town in
  "St. Adalbert's Life" in 997, they tell us about
  the castle, the city, so Gdansk had to be an
  inhabited settlement. Het settlement ran
  trade-fair activities, fishing, amber gatherering
  and sea port. In 1235 Gdansk was a town as a
  result of strong growth in the days Svatopluk.
  The best trade relations Gdansk mainained with
  Lübeck where salt and broadcloth were imported
  from, and grain and wood were exported to.

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POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION

• Gdansk is the capital and the largest city of
  Pomeranian Region. City administration is not
  only the Town Office, but also many other
  organizational entities reporting to the
  authorities of the city. These include, among
  others such entities as Management of Roads and
  Greenery, Urban Transport Management Board,
  Municipal Guard, Office of Development of Gdansk
  (planning), Department of Social, Historical
  Museum of the City of Danzig, Town House of
  Culture. In addition, the city is subject to more
  than 200 educational institutions.
• Administrative divisions
• Gdansk, the City Council, is divided into 30
  units called neighborhoods. Residents of
  neighborhoods have the right to form auxiliary
  units municipalities - Council of Settlements. In
  Gdansk operates 10 Rad Settlements. Created in
  the districts Brzezno, Kokoszki,
  Krakowiec-Western Hills, Letnica, Mlynska,
  Olszynka, Osowa, Rudniki, Strzyza and
  Sobieszewska Island.

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EDUCATION

• In Gdansk and its surroundings next to its
  headquarters is more than a dozen universities.
  In them there are around 60,000 students, making
  Gdansk one of the most important academic centers
  in Poland. The most important universities
  University of Medical Sciences, Academy of Music,
  the Academy of Fine Arts, University of
  Technology, University of Gdansk

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Monuments and other tourist facilities in Gdansk

• Gdansk is one of the most historic places in
  Poland, despite the fact that almost all the
  historical downtown was rebuilt after the last
  war, and much of the relics were destroyed or
  dispersed. At the end of the Middle Ages, Gdansk
  became the most important artistic center in the
  region. Also during the Renaissance and Baroque
  eminent artists performed here, for example
  Willem, Abraham and Isaac van den Blocke Antoni
  van Obberghen, Andreas Schlüter.
•  Gdansk most important monuments are in the main
  city (City Hall Main Town, Arthur's Court, the
  Uphagens House) and Old Town (Great Mill, the Old
  Town City Hall, the Church of St. Catharine), the
  main routes are located along the Royal
  representative street of Gdansk Long Street. In
  the main city there is also the Basilica of the
  Assumption of Our Lady Mary's the largest
  medieval brick temple in Europe. To 1939 there
  was Great Synagogue there. Among the important
  places in Gdansk should also be Westerplatte, the
  Fortress Wisloujscie and Oliwa, where there is
  the cathedral. Sthe monuments of Gdansk are on
  the European Track of Brick Gothic.

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CITY OF OLD TOWN HALL

• The main entrance to City Hall from the Long
  street. Two specific staircase form an artistic
  whole with the work of Daniel Eggert the porch
  from the years 1766-1768. An interesting things
  is Gdansk coat of arms supported by two lions,
  placed above the entrance to City Hall. It is the
  only of its kind, due to the fact that the two
  lions heads are looking toward the Golden Gate,
  instead of looking at each other. According to
  tradition it was the directions where from the
  king of Poland was to arrive to help Gdansk in a
  difficult moment in the citys history.

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Artus Court

• Artus mansions traditions date back to Middle
  Ages., from the knights the ethos in Europe. The
  common name comes from the name of mansionsof
  legendary Celtic leader Arhtur. In the Middle
  Ages it was the model of chivalric virtues of a
  'round table', at which he sat with his brave
  companions - a symbol of harmony and equality.
  The Arthus Mansion in Gdansk is one of ten
  objects that were built over the Baltic Sea since
  the beginning of the sixteenth century and the
  only one preserved in its original state to the
  end of the twentieth century. The most important
  monuments of the manor is the largest tile
  heating stove in Europe, the level of 10.64
  meters, consisting of 520 richly decorated tiles
  . The museum complex of Arthus Court also
  includes a historic patricius house with its
  interior, where the decor comes from the XVII and
  XVIII c. At present the Arthus Court gathers
  collections that illustrate the history and
  functions of the entire complex on the background
  of economic and public life of the city, and
  shaping the culture of Gdansk secular bourgeoisie.

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Great Mill

• Great Mill - in the Old Town of Gdansk one of the
  largest industrial facilities of medieval Europe.
  It was built with bricks by the Teutonic Knights
  in the fourteenth century and served as the mill
  initially equipped with 12, while later in 18
  large water wheels driven by Radunia Channel.

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Church of Sts. Katarzyna

• Church of St. Catharine - the oldest parish
  church in the Old Town of Gdansk. It was built in
  the years 1227-1239, the founders were leaders of
  the Gdansk Pomerania. It was developed in the
  fourteenth century. Between 1555-1945 it belonged
  to Protestants. The church tower, measuring 76
  m, is crowned by a baroque cupola made by Jacob
  van den Block. In the hall there are paintings by
  Anton Moeller and Isaac van den Block, as well as
  Baroque epitaphs and funeral stela of the
  astronomer John Heweliusz from 1659. A
  particular monument is located there, the image
  of Our Lady Bolszowiecka from Bolszowic. In The
  church there is the Museum of Tower Clocks, a
  branch of the Historical Museum of the City of
  Gdansk.

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Westerplatte

• Westerplatte - a peninsula in Gdansk, at the
  mouth of Dead Vistula River. In the years 1926-39
  a military transit depot, which defense in
  September 1939 became one of the most famous
  symbols of the Polish resistance. It fought
  alone, only German sources gave the information
  about the live torpedo attack toward Westerplatte
  battering position in the New Port. Currently,
  in the park there is the Monument of Defenders of
  Coast. It is 25 meters high (not counting the
  base, which is a 20-meter mound). Het jagged
  shape of the monument recalls a bayonet stabbed
  into the ground.

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GALERY