The historic medieval tower fully today a museum acting in place of the permanent exhibition of the exhibition entitled "From prehistory Chelmno and the area." The exhibits documenting the oldest history of the city, as well as settlements in Kałdusie and Starogrodzie. At the exhibition you can also see ethnographic collection. The tower is an element built in the thirteenth and fourteenth century city walls and is strengthening its military, initially composed of three walls, in the sixteenth century, closed the fourth wall, so you could perform the functions of storage. The building stored gunpowder and war equipment. After the loss of military significance tower served the purposes of economic and neglected underwent slow devastation. He restored its original splendor in 1977 and since then it is an archaeological museum. With Gunpowder involves an interesting legend about the ghost of Bernard Szumborski - cruel soldier Teutonic poisoned in Chelmno in 1470 after 22 years of occupation of the city. Apparently the eternal condemned to wander the spirit of the mysterious process that took place on October 24, 1975 years - the anniversary of the Knights to break into Chelmno.
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