Mysia Wieża

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Mouse tower

Mysia Wieża (German: Mäuseturm ) is a 32 meter high octagonal brick tower, which is located on the Rzępowski peninsula on Lake Gopło in Kruszwica . What is interesting is that the tower is round inside and the holes on its outer wall are not windows but the traces of scaffolding. The tower is a surviving part of the castle in Kruszwica, which King Casimir the Great had built around 1350 . Originally it was a fortress that was supposed to protect Kruszwica from the knights of the Teutonic Order . After the order's decline, it became the seat of the castellany and the Starostei of Kruszwica. After two years of occupation, the castle was blown up by the Swedes in 1657. The tower was not destroyed and has been a tourist attraction and lookout point since 1895. From its top you can see Inowrocław , Strzelno and Radziejów .

Legend

There are some legends associated with the Mysia Wieża Tower. Its name refers to the legend of the legendary Polish ruler Popiel , who was deposed by the Prince of the Polans Siemowit (an ancestor of Duke Mieszko I ). This legend is described in the Polish Chronicle by Gallus Anonymus . However, the story was supposed to happen almost four hundred years before the construction of the current tower - this place is first referred to in the Wielkopolska Chronicle . A popular theory says that the legend probably comes from Western European sources, as there is a similar saga in Germany about an evil ruler who was eaten by mice in a tower and relates to the mouse tower in the town of Bingen on the Rhine . However, as Jacek Banaszkiewicz has shown, the legend of the mouse-eaten ruler could not be borrowed from Germany, as it already appears during the creation of "Mouse Legends" and is simply part of the pre-Indo-European symbolic heritage.

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  • The view on a sunny day

  • The view at sunset

  • The view from the Gopło lake

  • The view from the Rzępowski peninsula

  • The view in winter

  • The view in summer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mysia Wieża. PTTK Kruszwica. Retrieved September 27, 2013 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 19.6 ″  N , 18 ° 19 ′ 37.9 ″  E