Opole, Poland - Polish Venice
Opole is a city located in southern Poland on the Oder River. It is the capital of the Opole Voivodeship and, also the seat of Opole County.
With it long history dating back to the 9th century, Opole is considered to be one of the oldest towns in Poland. The origins of the first settlement are connected with the town being granted Magdeburg Rights in 1217 by Casimir I of Opole, the great-grandson of Polish Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth. During the Medieval Period and the Renaissance the city was known as a centre of commerce due to its position on the intersection of several main trade routes, which helped to generate steady profits from transit trade. The rapid development of the town was also caused by the establishment of a seat of regency in Opole in 1816. The first railway connection between Opole, Brzeg and Wrocław was opened in 1843 and the first proper manufacturing plants were constructed in 1859, which greatly contributed to the city's regional significance.
During its existence Opole belonged to Poland, Bohemia, Prussia and Germany. Prior to World War II it was located in eastern Germany and was one of the largest centres of Polish minority in the entire country. In 1945, according to Yalta and Potsdam Agreements, the region was assigned to Poland. Many German Upper Silesians and Poles of German ancestry still live in the Opole region; in the city itself, however, ethnic Germans make up less than 3% of the population. It was also the capital of the historical region of Upper Silesia.
Today there are four higher education establishments in the city: The Opole University, Opole University of Technology, a Medical College and the private Higher College of Management and Administration. The National Festival of Polish Song has been held here annually since 1963 and each year new regular events, fairs, shows and competitions take place.
Opole is sometimes referred to as Polish Venice, because of its picturesque Old Town and several canals and bridges connecting parts of the city.
Radom - 3D - Polish cities - ♪♪♪
Radom is a city in central Poland with 220,602 inhabitants (December 31, 2011). It is located 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw, on the Mleczna River, in (as of 1999) the Masovian Voivodeship, having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship (1975--1998). Despite being part of the Masovian Voivodeship, the city historically belongs to Lesser Poland. For centuries, Radom was part of the Sandomierz Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland and the later Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was an important center of administration, having served as seat of the Crown Council. The Pact of Vilnius and Radom was signed there in 1401, and the Nihil novi and Łaski's Statute were adopted by the Sejm at Radom's Royal Castle in 1505. In 1976, it was a center of anti Communist street protests.
The city is home to the biennial Radom Air Show, the largest and best-attended air show in Poland, held during the last weekend of August. Radom is also the popular unofficial name for a semiautomatic 9 mm Para pistol of Polish design (the Model 35/ViS-35) which was produced from 1935 to 1944 at the national arsenal located in the city. The Łucznik Arms Factory (still located in Radom) continues to produce modern military firearms.
Poland online tour, Szczecin City in Poland
Szczecin (Polish: [ˈʂtʂɛtɕin] ; German: Stettin [ʃtɛˈtiːn], Swedish: Stettin [stɛˈtiːn]; known also by other alternative names) is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major seaport and Poland's seventh-largest city. As of June 2018, the population was 403,274.[1]
Szczecin is located on the Oder, south of the Szczecin Lagoon and the Bay of Pomerania. The city is situated along the southwestern shore of Dąbie Lake, on both sides of the Oder and on several large islands between the western and eastern branches of the river. Szczecin is adjacent to the town of Police and is the urban centre of the Szczecin agglomeration, an extended metropolitan area that includes communities in the German states of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
The city's recorded history began in the 8th century as a Slavic Pomeranian stronghold, built at the site of the Ducal castle. In the 12th century, when Szczecin had become one of Pomerania's main urban centres, it lost its independence to Piast Poland, the Duchy of Saxony, the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark, and became completely German speaking by the 14th century. At the same time, the House of Griffins established themselves as local rulers and the population was Christianized. After the Treaty of Stettin in 1630, the town came under the control of the Swedish Empire and became in 1648 the Capital of Swedish Pomerania until 1720, when it was acquired by the Kingdom of Prussia and then the German Empire. Following World War II Stettin became part of Poland in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement, resulting in the almost complete expulsion of the pre-war population.
Szczecin is the administrative and industrial centre of West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is the site of the University of Szczecin, Pomeranian Medical University, Maritime University, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin Art Academy, and the see of the Szczecin-Kamień Catholic Archdiocese. From 1999 onwards, Szczecin has served as the site of the headquarters of NATO's Multinational Corps Northeast.
Poland: Wadowice
Wadowice's history ... The history of the town of Wadowice can be traced back to the 13th century. First it belonged to the princedom of the Silesian Piasts, next to form a part of the Principality of Oswiecim that would morph later into Principality of Zator. In 1482 the short-lived Principality of Wadowice was created that lasted 11 years. Returned to the Zator statelet, in 1495 Wadowice was bought with it by Poland and incorporated to the powerful kingdom. During the first partition of Poland in 1772 the Austrian Empire annexed the southern part of the Krakow province, including Wadowice. In 1867 the town was made the capital of a county, which brought it new prosperity. In 1918, after the Great War, Wadowice returned to Poland reborn as a republic. At the outset of the Second World War, when the Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Wadowice was annexed to the Third Reich. Since the end of the WWII the town has been Poland again.
The Birthplace of Pope John Paul II ... Wadowice has gotten international recognition as the birthplace of Pope John Paul II. Born in 1920 as Karol Wojtyla, the future Pontiff lived in Wadowice till 1938 when he moved to Krakow to study at its ancient Jagiellonian Univesity. Yet to his last days the late Holy Father remembered fondly his Wadowice youth and places associated with it, the schoolmates, his teachers, and other local folks he had used to know. Also, he tried to include the town, when possible, in his visits to Poland.
Tourists seek in Wadowice sites connected with Pope John II. Their first obvious choice is the house at 7 Koscielna Street with flat where the future Vicar of Christ was born and raised. The place has been turned to a museum and exhibits comprise the Wojtyla family's former possessions such as an oven, a shelf, a table, tableware, a laundry basket, family pictures as well as personal belongings of Father Karol Wojtyla -- skis, a rucksack, a cap, a prayer book, etc., plus photos from his three visits to Wadowice as the Pope. The building is situated in the town's heart, next to the baroque church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the central square.
The church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is perhaps most iconic in the life of the Pontiff. The future John Paul II grew up in its shadow, was baptized a Catholic and later confirmed in it, served as an altar boy and prayed daily here before its miraculous picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The church's Gothic chancel dates from the 15th century while the late-Baroque nave and aisles were built in the 1790s. The left aisle contains a baptismal font where the baby Karol Wojtyla was baptized.
Świętokrzyskie Poland
In August 2017 I traveled to Poland to visit family and to take in the amazing sites that the country has to offer.
Apart from traveling to various cities, majority of my time was spend in the Świętokrzyskie Region.
With the summer coming to an end and the overcast skies becoming more frequent it gave me the perfect opportunity to put together a few time lapse sequences.
Majority of the scenes were from around the city of Kielce and the final scene was taken from Chęciny Castle.
All photos taken with the Sony A6000 and processed in Adobe Lightroom.
Final render was done with Adobe Premiere Pro.
Music :Time Passing By.
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Ireland and Poland 2017
Guinness Brewery- Dublin
Trim Castle- County Trim
Cliffs of Moher-County Clare
King Johns castle- Limerick
Blarney Castle-Cork
Muckross house- Killarney
Bantry Bay- County Cork
Charles Fort- Kinsale
Ashford Castle- Cong
Irish Drift Championship- Watergrasshill, Cork
Glendalough- Wicklow
Smithwicks Brewery- Kilkenny
Old Town Warsaw
Port of Gdynia
Upside down house- Szymbark
Karsin
Malbork castle
Auschwitz-berkineau
St Mary's church- Gdansk
Sopot beach
Nicholaus Copernicus Museum- Torun
Pierniki gingerbread- Torun
Warsaw Castle
Lazienki park- warsaw
Museum of Steele- Warsaw
Warsaw ghetto
Warsaw Zoo
Wieliczka salt mine- Krakow
Wawel Castle- Krakow
Oder river, Wrocław, Lower Silesian, Poland, Europe
The Oder is a river in Central Europe. It rises in the Czech Republic and flows through western Poland, later forming 187 kilometres (116 mi) of the border between Poland and Germany, part of the Oder–Neisse line. The river ultimately flows into the Szczecin Lagoon north of Szczecin and then into three branches (the Dziwna, Świna and Peene) that empty into the Gulf of Pomerania of the Baltic Sea. The Oder is 854 kilometres (531 miles) long: 112 km (70 miles) in the Czech Republic, 742 km (461 miles) in Poland (including 187 km (116 miles) on the border between Germany and Poland) and is the second longest river in Poland (after the Vistula). It drains a basin of 118,861 square kilometres (45,892 sq mi), 106,056 km2 (40,948 sq mi) of which are in Poland (89%), 7,217 km2 (2,786 sq mi) in the Czech Republic (6%), and 5,587 km2 (2,157 sq mi)in Germany (5%). Channels connect it to the Havel, Spree, Vistula system and Kłodnica. It flows through Silesian, Opole, Lower Silesian, Lubusz, and West Pomeranian voivodeships of Poland and the states of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. The main branch empties into the Szczecin Lagoon near Police, Poland. The Szczecin Lagoon is bordered on the north by the islands of Usedom (west) and Wolin (east). Between these two islands, there is only a narrow channel (Świna) going to the Bay of Pomerania, which forms a part of the Baltic Sea. The largest city on the Oder is Wrocław, in Lower Silesia. The Oder is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as the town of Koźle, where the river connects to the Gliwice Canal. The upstream part of the river is canalized and permits larger barges (up to CEMT Class IV) to navigate between the industrial sites around the Wrocław area. Further downstream the river is free flowing, passing the towns of Eisenhüttenstadt (where the Oder–Spree Canal connects the river to the Spree in Berlin) and Frankfurt upon Oder. Downstream of Frankfurt the river Warta forms a navigable connection with Poznań and Bydgoszcz for smaller vessels. At Hohensaaten the Oder–Havel Canal connects with the Berlin waterways again.
Near its mouth the Oder reaches the city of Szczecin, a major maritime port. The river finally reaches the Baltic Sea through the Szczecin Lagoon and the river mouth at Świnoujście. he river in Germania Magna was known to the Romans as the Viadrus or Viadua in Classical Latin, as it was a branch of the Amber Road from the Baltic Sea to the Roman Empire (see via). In German language it was and is called the Oder, written in older records as Odera or Oddera in Medieval Latin documents. It was mentioned in the Dagome iudex, which described territory of the Duchy of Poland under Mieszko I of Poland ca. 990, as a part of duchies western frontier. Before Slavs settled along its banks, Oder was an important trade route and towns in Germania were documented along with many tribes living between the rivers Albis (aka Elbe), Oder and Vistula. Centuries later, after Germanic tribes were long gone, the Bavarian Geographer (ca. 845) specifies the following West Slavic peoples: Sleenzane, Dadosesani, Opoloni, Lupiglaa, and Gоlеnsizi in Silesia and Wolinians and Pyrzycans in Western Pomerania. A document of the Bishopric of Prague (1086) mentions Zlasane, Trebovyane, Poborane, and Dedositze in Silesia. In the 13th century, the first dams were built to protect agricultural lands. The Finow Canal, built for the first time in 1605, connects Oder and Havel. After completion of the more straight Oder–Havel Canal in 1914, its economic relevance decreased. The earliest important undertaking with a view of improving the waterway was due to the initiative of Frederick the Great, who recommended the diversion of the river into a new and straight channel in the swampy tract of land known as Oderbruch near Küstrin. The work was carried out in the years 1746–53, a large tract of marshland being brought under cultivation, a considerable detour cut off and the main stream successfully confined to a canal.
Zamość Old Town Poland, stare miasto rynek | 4K movie drone footage, DJI Mavic Air
Zamość is a city with poviat rights in the southern part of the Lubelskie Voivodeship. It is one of the biggest cultural, educational and tourist centers of the voivodeship, especially the Zamość region.
Thanks to its unique architectural and urban complex, the Old Town is sometimes called the pearl of Renaissance, the city of arcades and Padua of the north.
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Zamość miasto na prawach powiatu w południowej części województwa lubelskiego. Jest jednym z większych ośrodków kulturalnych, edukacyjnych i turystycznych województwa, a zwłaszcza Zamojszczyzny.
Za sprawą unikalnego zespołu architektoniczno-urbanistycznego Starego Miasta bywa nazywany „perłą renesansu”, „miastem arkad” i „Padwą północy”.
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Autumn in Poland (HD)
For this autumn landscape photography week we were touring around some of the most picturesque parts of Poland. We began in Krakow where we explored the old part of the city. After that we headed towards the spectacular Tatra and Pieniny Mountains, close to Poland’s border with Slovakia.
The remains of the Lublin ghetto part 4
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In 1939 Lublin had a population of around 120,000 people, one third of which were Jewish.
The Nazis captured Lublin on 18 September 1939. Whilst still under military occupation, persecution began.
In December 1939 a Judenrat (Jewish Council) was established with 24 members. The head was Henryk Bekker, an engineer who had been a local politician before the war. I have never come across any negative references to Bekker. He was murdered in Bełżec on 30 March 1942. His deputy was Marek Alten who was a lawyer from the region of Tarnów who had been an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army in WW1. He seems to have believed that he could talk to the Germans as equals, particularly if they came from Austria. Within time however it seems as though power went to his head. After the deportations to Bełżec, he became head of the Judenrat and was shot in the ghetto of Majdan Tatarski on 9 November 1942.
The Nazis had a plan of making the Lublin district into a Judenreservat (Jewish settlement area or literally reserve). This policy was discontinued in 1940 after thousands of people from Germany and Austria above all had been brought to small ghettos in the area. Later the Nazis closed some of the smaller ghettos and sent people to Lublin or other ghettos.
The Lublin ghetto as such was set up in March 1941. Even after it was set up, some people who worked for the Nazi authorities were allowed to stay outside the ghetto. The ghetto was formed in the streets around the castle, part of the Old Town and several streets to the north towards where the Yeshiva and Old Jewish cemetery still remain.
The ghetto was not enclosed like at Warsaw, Kraków or Łódż. There were some temporary barbed wire entanglements erected, however for much of the time it was in existence, Jews could live on one side of the street and other people on the other.
People died of starvation in the ghetto but not to the extent that this happened elsewhere as it was possible to bring food into the ghetto. An article in the Berliner Tagblatt of December 1940 had a series of photographs showing people being arrested for trading in foodstuffs.
The reason why people did not escape is clear. They had no documents - where could they go and how would they procure food and shelter?
In the late winter of 1942 the Nazis divided the ghetto in part A for those not working and B which is in the upper part which still survives for those working for the authorities. Thus all the people earmarked for deportation already found themselves in the lower part of the ghetto.
On 16 March 1942, SS-Hauptsturmführer Hermann Höfle informed representatives of Nazi institutions in Lublin that all unemployed Jews would be deported to the last station in Lublin district - a place called Bełżec. The employed would be deported to another ghetto around 3km distant at Majdan Tatarski and from there they would be accommodated in Majdanek. At 22:00 on that day the ghetto was surrounded by SS and Trawniki men. A search light was set up and people forced to attend a roll call. Some, mainly the elderly and ill, were murdered. At midnight Hermann Worthoff from the Lublin Gestapo told the Judenrat that 1,500 people from the lower ghetto would be taken to the east to work and could take only 15 kg of luggage with them.
Those chosen for the journey on this night and every night were put in the Great Synagogue and then marched around 3km to the Umschlagplatz on the periphery of the town.
On 17 March 1942 these people became the first victims of the Bełżec death camp.
Around 1,000 - 1,500 people were taken to Bełżec daily until 14 April 1942. Some people were shot in the Niemce Forest to the north of Lublin.
On 14 April 1942 there were still around 7,000 people in the ghetto, many in hiding. In one of my films you can see the cellars which were uncovered by a building owner. To solve this problem, the Nazis moved everyone to the ghetto in Majdan Tatarski.
The Nazis introduced a J Ausweis for workers (but not their families) as part of the deportation process. On 22 April 1942 they gathered the population in the Po Farze Square. People were forced to kneel and hold their papers up. Those that did not have the correct papers were taken away and murdered.