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Klimek Tower

Local name: Wieża Klimek

Tower after the thirteenth-century Teutonic castle today is an attractive vantage point from which you can admire the panorama of Grudziadz. On the observation deck located at the height of 23 m leads spiral staircase inside the building. Klimek is not original construction from the time of the Teutonic Knights, but was rebuilt in 2006 on the initiative of the local social committee. Earlier, the blow up by the Germans at the end of World War II, the remains of the building remained buried in a mound of earth, waiting to be discovered. Klimek tower in the thirteenth century was the highest 30-meter part of the fortified castle, built by the Teutonic Knights at the Grudziadz hill. Towering over the area provide the perfect vantage point of a defensive nature. Despite the dismantling of the castle on the orders of Frederick William II at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Klimek survived until the end of the war. The retreating Germans blew up the building, because it can be was to observe troop movements. In the vicinity of the tower there are also the remains of the former castle of the Teutonic Knights.

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    Zamkowa 86-300 Grudziądz , Poland