Easy hikes and walks around Piotrków Trybunalski

It may not be the French Riviera or even a substitute for Polish Masuria. But as a park with a beach in the city. Quite an interesting development of the place.

The courthouse was built according to various designs between 1905 and 1909 according to the design of the provincial architect Feliks Nowicki in a style described as eclectic, Art Nouveau or neoclassical. During World War I, in 1914 during the fighting for the city, a field hospital was set up in its interior. After the end of World War II, the courthouse first housed the Municipal National Council, and then, after the establishment of the Piotrków Trybunalski Voivodeship in 1975, the building was the seat of the Voivodeship Office. Since 1989, it has once again served as a court. The eastern wing of the building with an entrance from Toruńska Street houses the State Archives established in 1919. The building is entered in the register of monuments under the number 278 of 2.04.1979. It is also in the municipal register of monuments of the city of Piotrków Trybunalski.

The current "old" church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on "Krakówka" is made of brick, built by the efforts of the parish priest of Piotrków, Fr. Spytek, in the years 1372-1373 from the foundation of the starost of Sieradz, then of Piotrków, Jan Kmita of Wiśnicz, in the Gothic style. The founder gave the church the suburban farm of Szczekanica as an endowment, on the condition that one Mass would be celebrated every week for Casimir the Great and his family. He entrusted the care of the new church to the parish priests of Piotrków. This foundation was confirmed in 1392 by Queen Jadwiga. Robbed and burned by the Swedes in 1657. This is mentioned in the Latin inscription on the stone built into the western wall of the porch of the parish church, that in 1657 on April 1, on Easter Day itself, at noon, during lunchtime, the Swedish king with a huge army occupied the suburbs of Piotrków. He burned down the Franciscan and Bernardine churches and the Church of Our Lady on Krakówka, took many residents, both clergy and lay people, into captivity, and brutally murdered some. The church was rebuilt and re-consecrated in 1666 thanks to the charity of the townspeople and the nobility through the efforts of the then parish priest, Father Nowakowicz. In 1848, the church was seriously damaged during a storm. A lightning strike caused the walls to crack. The church was renovated in 1872 through the efforts and funds of Michalecki, a citizen of the city, the president of the church supervision. The church was covered with a new, lower shingle roof. In 1898, when heavy machinery and boilers were being transported along Krakowskie Przedmieście to a factory under construction on Bugaj, the walls of the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built without foundations, began to crumble again. This threatened the building with total ruin. In 1900, thanks to the efforts of the parish priest, Father Aleksander Sałaciński, the church was thoroughly rebuilt. In 1937, the church required renovation again, as the walls were once again starting to show cracks. The security works have been carried out under the parish priest Józef Goździk since 1933. They were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. In 1940, the Germans fenced off part of the streets in the old town with barbed wire, creating a so-called ghetto for people of Jewish origin. The parish church was on the side of the ghetto and was closed to the faithful.

Built in the years 1512–1519 on the low bank of the Strawa by Master Benedict of Sandomierz on the orders of Sigismund I the Old. It is a residential tower in the Gothic-Renaissance style built of brick and sandstone. It has four storeys and is covered with a hipped roof.

The tenement house played the role of Kramer's bank in the film "Vabank" (1981).

A stylized bench referring to the film "Vabank" filmed nearby.

The beginnings of secondary education in Piotrków date back to the second half of the 17th century and are associated with two orders: the Piarists and the Jesuits. The Piarists, after the unsuccessful efforts to open a college in Kraków in 1662, turned their attention to Piotrków, which was then the seat of the Crown Tribunal. They quickly gained the support of both the Piotrków townspeople and the church authorities, obtaining permission to settle in the city in 1674, and established a college in 1675. In 1677, the Sejm accepted their Piotrków foundation under the care of the king and the nation, exempting it from taxes. Initially, the school was located in a tenement house on Dominikańska Street (currently part of Wojska Polskiego Street). At the same time, the Piarists bought adjacent plots, eventually becoming the owners of a large block between Sieradzka, Nowe Miasto (currently Rycerska), Rwańska and Dominikańska Streets, designated for a church and school buildings. Their construction was completed in 1713. After the fire in Piotrków in 1731, a new, two-story, brick school building was built a year later, and in 1738 a boarding school building.

The place where the Wolborska Gate in Piotrków used to be. Piotrków had three city gates until the 19th century: Krakowska, Wolborska and Sieradzka. In 1656, Wolborska was barricaded with earth on the orders of Stefan Czarniecki, which contributed to the significant weakening and cracking of its walls.