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Chełmno

Chełmno CountyCities and towns in Kuyavian-Pomeranian VoivodeshipHolocaust locations in PolandKulm lawMembers of the Hanseatic League
Populated places on the VistulaSites of World War II massacres of Poles
Chełmno panoramio (1)
Chełmno panoramio (1)

Chełmno ([ˈxɛu̯mnɔ] ; older English: Culm; German: , formerly also Culm) is a town in northern Poland near the Vistula river with 18,915 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the seat of the Chełmno County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Due to its regional importance in the Middle Ages, the town gave its name to the entire area, Chełmno Land (and later an administrative unit of the Kingdom of Poland, the Chełmno Voivodeship), the local Catholic diocese and Kulm law, a municipal form of government for over 180 cities and towns in Central Europe, most notably Warsaw, Gdańsk, Toruń, Königsberg, Olsztyn, Płock and Klaipėda. It possesses a well-preserved historic Old Town, listed as a Historic Monument of Poland, with landmark Gothic churches and a Renaissance town hall. It was an important education center in the early modern period, and the place of pioneering surgical operations by renown Polish 19th-century surgeon Ludwik Rydygier.

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N 53.349166666667 ° E 18.423055555556 °
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Ratusz w Chełmnie

Rynek 28
86-200
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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