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A very interesting bench right on the lake shore and a perfect photo opportunity!

A wonderful place. Here you can admire ancient buildings from Kashubia, Kociewie, and the Tuchola Forest. There are wooden cottages, windmills, an inn, churches, and entire old farmsteads. Travel back in time to see what people did when there was no internet! A truly interesting place, such living, fascinating history. You can peek into each building and see what it was like. Don't forget to buy tickets! http://www.muzeum-wdzydze.gda.pl/

Once a year, the open-air museum hosts the Wdzydzki Fair, which lasts two days and is worth seeing

At the very beginning, it is worth mentioning the dedication ceremony of the Lutheran Church in Kościerzyna (Berent), which took place on Wednesday, April 18, 1894, as stated in the holiday program of the ceremony, printed especially for this occasion. This temple served the local faithful of the Evangelical faith until 1945. After World War II, this post-Evangelical church under the invocation of St. John of Nepomuk was designated for youth as a school church. The Resurrectionists came to Kościerzyna at the request of the then Ordinary of the Chełmno Diocese, Bishop Kazimierz Józef Kowalski, who wanted to entrust them with the care of the abandoned post-Evangelical church and the children and school youth in Kościerzyna. The Resurrectionists arrived in the city on July 4, 1947. https://parafiakoscierzyna.pl/index.php/historia-parafii

The Museum – Teodora and Izydor Gulgowski Kashubian Ethnographic Park in Wdzydze Kiszewskie is located on the picturesque shores of Lake Gołuń. There are over 50 buildings characteristic of the rural landscape of Kashubia, Kociewie and Tuchola Forest from the 17th to the 20th century. Visitors can admire the wealth of old wooden architecture of Pomerania with its equipment: cottages, manors, a school, windmills, churches, inns, farm buildings and craft workshops. The farmsteads present: methods of grinding snuff and grinding grain, washing, mangling, tailoring, weaving, the work of a blacksmith, wheelwright and forest worker. The museum offers various workshops and shows, both for individual visitors and for groups. For the youngest visitors, an interactive exhibition has been prepared “Museum for fun?” - where children can experience the past and plan a museum of the future. This is an exhibition where you are allowed to touch the exhibits: check what it is like to sleep under a duvet, look inside a cast iron waffle iron and rummage through a kitchen cupboard. It tells about various museums that exist in the world; explains why we need museum collections in the first place; shows what kind of exhibits can be collected, for example, in open-air museums. It asks children and adults the question: "What matters to people?" In this way, the exhibition makes visitors aware that research never ends, and that history and tradition are constantly being created. https://wdzydzkipark.pl/o-parku-4/dziedzictwo-kulturowe-6/muzea/kaszubski-park-etnograficzny/

The figure of a goat refers to the well-known and popular Kashubian song "Tata i kòza". This is a song quite close to the capital of Kashubia, for example thanks to Franciszek Kwidzinski, manager of the Regional Song and Dance Ensemble of Kashubia, who added a verse to the song, originally created by Jan Trepczyk. (https://kartuzy.naszemiasto.pl/na-kartuskim-deptaku-pojawila-sie-koza-to-nowa-atrakcja/ar/c7-9601461)

In the years 1883-1887, a brick church in the neo-Gothic style was built at the market square in Kartuzy, which served the Evangelicals until 1945. In the years 1946-1983, this temple served as the school church of the Roman Catholic parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kartuzy. On October 1, 1983, a parish was established next to this church. Saint Kazimierz. In the years 2004-2008, the interior of the church was modernized and on October 3, 2008, on the 550th anniversary of the birth of St. Kazimierz and the 25th anniversary of the parish, Bishop Jan Bernard Szlaga consecrated the church. (https://fotopolska.eu/61362,obiekt.html?map_z=18)

Ty2/Ty42 – German-built freight steam locomotive (standardized series 52). Ty2 steam locomotives were built en masse in many European factories (in Germany and occupied countries, including Poland) in the years 1942–1945. They are also known as the German war locomotive Kriegslokomotive. After the war, based on the documentation left by the occupier, Polish plants produced 150 steam locomotives of a similar design, already marked as Ty42. http://poczta.kartuzy.pl/przetargi/2020/24_20_parowoz/dokumentacja.pdf