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Co-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity

Local name: Konkatedra św. Trójcy

The interior of the church in Chełmża has many works of art dating from the late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century. From the Gothic monuments you can see him religious sculptures and a fragment of a tombstone Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. The Renaissance represents the sixteenth-century choir stalls, pulpit and the tomb of Bishop Piotr Kostka. From the Baroque period is preserved main altar and several valuable paintings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Walking is paid for adults. Great Temple has a long and interesting history, and its surroundings hosted kings -Władysław Jagiello, Casimir IV, Zygmunt August, Zygmunt III Waza, his son Władysław IV and Jan III Sobieski. Cathedral also visited the President Stanislaw Wojciechowski and Ignacy Moscicki. The oldest elements of the construction of the church come from 1251 and its construction lasted more than three quarter of a century passed periods of destruction and reconstruction, as well as the great fire during the Lithuanian-Tatar invasions. Part of the original structure was demolished in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, eliminating, among other things Gothic cloisters.

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    Tumska 1487-140 Chełmża , Poland