Polish Gothic - Town Walls and Town Gates

Town Walls and Town Gates

The city walls surrounded, sometimes in place of the earlier shafts and such investment is carried out for many years, making frequent upgrades. Older consolidation often was increased. The sequence is often interrupted by walls tower. Cities sometimes receive a new, second belt walls (e.g., Wrocław, Toruń). Leading to the ornate gates of cities often preceded the late Gothic period barbakanami connected with them neck. First this form of defense on Polish soil was established in Toruń - Barbican Starotoruński of 1426, the best preserved in Poland barbican Barbican in Krakow. To this day preserved fragments of walls, of which most survived the gate, for example, in Szydłów, Sandomierz, Kraków St. Florian's Gate and the Kraków barbican. Significant parts of the walls have been preserved in Stargard, Pyrzyce, Byczyna, Toruń. In Chełmno and Paczków city walls are preserved almost in its entirety.

  • Collegium Maius in Kraków

  • Wawel Castle in Kraków

  • Cathedral in Wroclaw

  • Town Hall in Środa Śląska

  • Dominicans Church in Kraków

  • St. Mary Magdalene Church, Wroclaw

  • Bishop Castle in Lidzbark Warmiński

  • Houses in Old Market in Poznań

  • Town Hall Tower, Kraków

  • Ostrow Tumski, Wroclaw

  • Długosz House in Sandomierz

  • St. Michael Church, Wroclaw

  • St. Jacob Church in Toruń

  • Cathedral in Toruń

  • Castle in Chęciny

  • Castle in Malbork

  • Castle in Kwidzyn

  • St. Florian's Gate in Kraków

  • Krakowska Gate in Szydłów

  • Town Hall, Chojna

  • St. Elisabeth Church, Wroclaw

  • Barbican, Kraków

  • St. Dorothy Church, Wrocław

  • St. Cross Church, Wrocław

  • Town Hall, Toruń

  • St. Ladislaus Church in Szydłów

  • Castle in Oporów

  • St. Caterina Church in Braniewo

  • High Gate in Lidzbark Warmiński

  • Castle in Ciechanów

  • Church in Dobrym Mieście

  • St. Mary's Church, Gdańsk

  • St. Caterina Church in Gdańsk

  • St.Georg Manor in Gdańsk

  • St. John Church in Orneta

  • Church in Pelplin

  • Town Hall, Szczecin

  • Castle in Dębno

  • Psałteria and St. Mary's Church, Poznań

  • Wawel Cathedral

  • Długosz House, Wiślica

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