8 Kolobrzeska, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Starogard Gdański is one of the oldest towns in Pomerania. It is a town in Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland, situated on the Wierzyca River in the Starogard Lakeland. It belongs to the Vistula-Pomeranian region of Kociewie. The city boasts many medieval monuments, including fragments of defensive walls and towers. The defensive walls around the city are best preserved in the north-west section. They are 5 meters high and almost 2 meters wide. The wall had a foundation made of fieldstones with bastions in the corners and a moat around it. Later, entrance gates with towers were built. Three of them have survived to this day – Gdańsk Tower (or otherwise Szewska), Corner Tower (also known as Prince) and Mill Tower (also known as Tczewska). The Palace of the Wiechert Family - wealthy burghers and former owners of a mill in Starogard - erects almost opposite the latter tower. The family contributed significantly to the development of the city at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the city there is also the 14th-century parish church of Saint Matthew, in which, despite numerous changes over the centuries, the stellar vaults of the naves in the Gothic style have been preserved.
