Tczew

Tczew is a metropolis at the Vistula River in Eastern Pomerania, Kociewie, northern Poland with 60,279 population. It is an vital railway junction with a class yard courting to the Prussian Eastern Railway. The town is known for its appealing old city and the Vistula Bridge, or Bridge of Tczew, broken at some point of World War II. It is the capital of Tczew County in Pomeranian Voivodeship when you consider that 1999, and became previously a metropolis in Gdansk Voivodeship. The town is the place for the yearly English Language Camp organized by the American-Polish Partnership for Tczew.

Tczew was first cited as Trsow in a document via Pomeranian Duke Grzymisław bestowing the land to the Knights Hospitaller in 1198. Around 1200 Sambor I, Duke of Pomerania, constructed a citadel right here. In some documents, the call Derszewo appears, which stems from the name of a feudal lord, Derslaw. It is unknown whether or not Trsow and Derszewo referred to the identical or neighboring settlements. In order to reap higher control of traffic at the Vistula, Pomeranian Duke Sambor II moved his house shape Lubiszewo Tczewskie to here. By 1252 the settlement become recognized by means of the names Tczew and Dirschau.