Accommodation in Pieniężno

Pieniężno has been functioning as a city since 1312, when the Warmian Chapter granted city rights to the settlement. From the foundation of the settlement until 1946, it was called Melzak (Mehlsack - a sack with flour) - sacks with flour together with a sword and a key constitute the coat of arms of the city. The name was changed after the Second World War, commemorating the editor of Gazeta Olsztyńska Seweryn Pieniężnego, who was shot in the concentration camp of Hohenbruch.

A small town - about 3000 inhabitants - despite the great damage done in 1945, it is worth visiting. On the edge of the ravine of the River Wałsza, there is a remnant of the former capitular castle. The western representative wing and the northern part have been preserved in their entirety. Once the stronghold was an integral element of urban fortifications. After reconstruction and destruction, the castle did not return to its former form - it is currently being wasted by time. Inside the nineteenth-century neo-gothic church of Saint. Piotr and Paweł moved part of the equipment from the earlier fourteenth century temple (among others, the statues of patrons from the seventeenth century) - it is worth to look here. Nearby, we can see the rebuilt former town hall and tower - the remnant of the former Evangelical church. Pieniężno is also important on the map of Warmia, also due to the fact that Nicolaus Copernicus stayed temporarily here. While serving as the administrator of capitular goods, he came to the Melzatskis' estate to settle the abandoned land with new settlers. He made over seventy such expeditions to the capitulars. All this is included in the document "Location of abandoned lanes".

At the church of Piotr and Paweł, there is a comfortable descent to the "Dolina Rzeki Wałszy" nature reserve existing since 1907. It is a beautiful place conducive to tranquility and contact with nature. The river here has a mountain character, the water jumps over rocks - all this between the steep, forested slopes of the valley. Walking through the valley, we will come across the remains of the former railway bridge from 1885 and the construction of a new bridge, which replaced the previous one blown up in 1945. The bridge is one of the highest active in Poland (over 30 m). Spina railway line Olsztyn-Braniewo. If you do not have enough experience, you can still visit the museum with the worms' fathers. It is located at the Missionary Seminary of the Sisters' Priests. Here we will move to distant corners of the world watching exhibits brought by missionaries.

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