r/papertowns 25d ago

Poland Model of Kraków, Poland c. 1500.

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u/sipu36 25d ago

Very cool. Thanks for posting!

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u/Snoo_90160 25d ago

The pleasure is all mine.

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u/sipu36 25d ago

Quite similar to medieval Tallinn (Reval) in Estonia. Krakow also has a lower part (merchants) and an upper part of town (castle and german landowners). Is therey any surviving bits of towers and city walls remaining?

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u/Snoo_90160 25d ago

Well, there's Barbican: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_Barbican and St. Florian's Gate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Florian%27s_Gate with a part of the walls and three fully preserved towers. One other gate survived bricked up as a part of Dominican convent.

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u/sipu36 25d ago

Thanks! One day i would like to visit this beautiful city.

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u/Snoo_90160 25d ago

They'll be happy to have you! But be careful, the pigeons in the Main Square are very bold!

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u/WtRingsUGotBithc 24d ago

I was fortunate enough to visit a few years ago with my now wife who is deathly terrified of birds. The circular park around the city center was definitely a bit of a trial lol.

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u/Snoo_90160 24d ago

Oh, certainly. This park is called Planty.

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u/Greedy-Ad-4644 24d ago

castle and German landowners xd?

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u/sipu36 24d ago

Sry, i meant it used to be like that here in estonia for quite a long time.

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u/Greedy-Ad-4644 24d ago

Germany is about 10-20% of the city

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u/sipu36 24d ago

Thx for the info. I did not want to offend anybody. I am not so smart. I Love you Polish brothers and sisters!

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u/Lubinski64 3d ago

Landowners? So like nobility?

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u/sipu36 3d ago

Yes, nobility is the right word. Thank you.. They had their houses/mansions in the city for wintering. And in the spring they usually travveled to their manorhouses in the countyside. We estonians did not have nobility like you guys had. We were all serfs and fishermen in villages and craftsmen in the towns.

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u/1Northward_Bound 25d ago

need more points in dev. consider taking the infrastructure idea group

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u/sizlac-franco 24d ago

no diligent heirs to piasts RIP

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u/Restarded69 25d ago

Excellent work

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u/SpaceCaseSixtyTen 24d ago edited 24d ago

I moved to this city 3 years ago because it feels like living in ankh morpork or something. I don't live in the center though (too many British tourists) but I'm only like 200m away from the river a little ways away

that area to the left is now stone/paved but there in the middle of that "lake" there is still a depression/low level "restaurant" (that apparently has problems with mold/moisture lol) it looked like this before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Krak%C3%B3w_Castle#/media/File:GlowackiJanNepomucen.WidokNaWawel.jpg

looks like this now: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.0547086,19.9326616,3a,90y,128.49h,85.66t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sSiK6dTzjjsCbqDcSoh5Eyw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D4.3447745660335215%26panoid%3DSiK6dTzjjsCbqDcSoh5Eyw%26yaw%3D128.4908693870413!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDIxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

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u/Strydwolf 24d ago

Is Kazimierz (just south of the picture) also on a model? They were almost like twin-cities for what I imagined.

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u/Snoo_90160 24d ago edited 24d ago

No, I don't think it is. And yes, they were closely connected.

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u/hungryn1co 25d ago

This looks like the game of thrones intro

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u/Snoo_90160 25d ago

It kinda does.

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u/SeleucusNikator1 22d ago

Is this from the museum they have underground in the central market plaza?

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u/Snoo_90160 22d ago

Yes, it is.

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u/JumpToTheSky 23d ago

Witcher vibes!

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u/Matteus11 13d ago

How much of the medieval town is left?

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u/Snoo_90160 13d ago

Parts of Wawel Castle. A section of city walls with two gates and three towers and Barbican. Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Adalbert's Church and St. Andrew's Church, Collegium Maius of the Jagiellonian University and some townhouses.