Visiting the Rogalin Oaks. [2] The most famous oak tree in Poland is called Bartek, and it was estimated to be 1200 years old, thus the oldest in the country. That's apparently not true after its age has been recently established as under 700 years old. [3]ISO 250, 23mm, f/8.0, 1/60s.
Settle down now and sit with me Let me tell you how this all came to be A yellow flower with your petals to the air And flying on paper wings that brought you hereISO 200, 23mm, f/3.6, 1/640s.
The town was built using the Magdeburg rights, a medieval German blueprint for a city. Those laws were developed by Otto I (a Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Empire being an agglomeration of states that would over centuries evolve into Germany), and adopted in Poland, Hungary, and Bohemia. The laws were targeted at regulating trade to benefit local merchants and artisans. Polish implementation of it was different, as it came with a set of criminal and civil laws. [5] Your typical Magdeburg law city will have a town square with a town hall in the middle. My dad says, this is the type of towns where he feels most at home, as that's where he grew up.ISO 200, 23mm, f/3.6, 1/1250s.
It became Polish again after the Second World War, and there were plans to demolish this cemetery, but it was decided it would preserved by a Warsaw official, according to my dad.ISO 200, 23mm, f/5.0, 1/240s.
This woman miscalculated when she had this tomb commissioned. Anna Herbrich assumed she would die and be buried here, presumably beside her husband, but due to the Second World War, Germany's border shifted West, and she decided (or was forced to) follow, therefore she's buried elsewhere. Or maybe she's the oldest woman in the world!ISO 200, 23mm, f/5.0, 1/150s.
Here's a collection of coffin portraits. My dad laughed at me when the curator of the museum instantly identified my ghastly fascinations.ISO 320, 23mm, f/2.0, 1/60s.
After the Second World War, Communist Poland inherited these palaces from Germany. Their previous wealthy owners departed. It seems, in many cases they were then owned by schools, and they took some care of them. Now, in capitalist Poland, the palaces are expensive to maintain, and most of them have sadly been left to rot.ISO 1250, 23mm, f/5.0, 1/60s.
My dad reckons the problem with maintaining these palaces is that it would be so expensive to restore them (a completely unofficial estimate is 5 million euros for the Dobrocin palace restoration, that's from a few years ago), that it's cheaper to build a new, bespoke building.ISO 3200, 23mm, f/5.0, 1/60s.
This Głogów tower has had its bricks used for another purpose, presumably to restore local buildings after Second World War damage.ISO 200, 23mm, f/5.0, 1/1000s.
We did another palace just because I saw it from the road. Super photogenic village of Bożków. We ran into this boorish janitor guy who told us to leave when I asked him about the history of the palace.ISO 200, 23mm, f/5.6, 1/450s.
Look at this, it's brilliant. There's even a church and a graveyard. We could see the man looking at the drone helplessly.ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/1000s.
Kłodzko was where I met the most polite Polish person - a local tourist guide who could actually speak proper Polish (rare trait these days), and had impeccable manners.ISO 2500, 23mm, f/2.0, 1/60s.
My dad says, when German tourists visit Wrocław, they are generally impressed with the restoration that Poland has done. But then they always say "And why did you build this horrible building in the town square?!" To which Polish guides say "YOU built it!" It's a pre-war German building.ISO 200, 23mm, f/5.6, 1/1100s.
This place was first inhabited by the Piast dynasty, and it is the oldest part of the city. Apparently, Casanova lived here!ISO 200, 23mm, f/3.6, 1/1600s.
And lastly, the leaning tower. If you can stand up against it, it means you're truthful, or something. I'm planning to upload one last batch from Poland, just a small bunch of photos from my home village, and that will be Poland sorted.ISO 2500, 23mm, f/5.6, 1/60s.Sources
