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In 1918, Poland regained independence, and according to the Treaty of Versailles following World War I in 1919, Toruń was re-assigned to Poland. It became the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. In 1925, the Baltic Institute was established in the city, and worked on documenting Polish heritage and history in Pomerania.
Toruń [a] is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland [8] and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Its population was 196,935 as of December 2021. [1] Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–1998) and the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1921–1945).
Plan of the Toruń historical town center. The Old Town is marked in yellow; New Town in blue; the Castle is between them to the south. The Medieval Town of Toruń is composed of three parts: the Toruń Old Town in the west, Toruń New Town in the east, and the Toruń Castle in the south-east. [1]
Toruń Castle is a 13th- or 14th-century castle of the Teutonic Order located in Toruń, Poland. The castle is part of the Medieval Town of Toruń , one of the World Heritage Sites in Poland and Historic Monuments of Poland .
The Leaning Tower of Toruń (Polish: Krzywa Wieża w Toruniu) is a medieval tower in Toruń, Poland. It is known as a leaning tower because the top of the tower is displaced 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) from where it would be if the tower were perfectly vertical. Located on Pod Krzywą Wieżą street, it is one of the most important landmarks in ...
Toruń (marked in red as Thorn) near the 19th-century German/Prussian and Russian border in partitioned Poland (also marked in red). Toruń was an important city, which following the Partitions of Poland was located just north and west of the border between Prussia and Russia, which runs from southwest to northeast, in the north along the Drwęca tributary of the Vistula River which passes ...
The Copernicus House in Toruń is a historic, Gothic tenement house in Toruń, Poland, which belonged to the Copernicus family in the second half of the 15th century. It is considered by many historians to be the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus , and it houses a museum dedicated to the astronomer.
City hall seen from the west. The Old Town City Hall in Toruń is the main secular building of Toruń's Old Town, a Gothic building created in stages during the 13th and 14th centuries, reconstructed in the 17th century and rebuilt after destruction in the 18th century, one of the most outstanding examples of medieval city architecture in central Europe, the main seat of the District Museum in ...