Webcam Chelmno. Town Hall on Market Square
Chełmno is a town in northern Poland near the Vistula River with a population of 20,000 inhabitants and the historical capital of the Land of Chełmno. Located in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship since 1999, Chełmno was previously in the Toruń Voivodeship (1975-1998).
The first written mention of Chelmno is known from a document presumably issued in 1065 by Duke Boleslaus of Poland for the Benedictine monastery in Mogilno. In 1226 Duke Konrad I of Masovia invited Teutonic knights to the land of Chelmno. In 1233 Kulm was granted city rights, known as the "Law of Kulm" (renewed in 1251), a model system for more than 200 Polish cities. The city flourished as a member of the Hanseatic League of Commerce. Culm and the Land of Chelmno were part of the state of the Teutonic Knights until 1454.
In 1440 the city was one of the founding members of the Prussian Confederation, which opposed the Teutonic rule. at the request of King casimir IV Jagellon the territory was reincorporated into the Kingdom of Poland in 1454. In May 1454 the town swore allegiance to the Polish king in Torun. After the end of the Thirteenth War, the Teutonic Knights renounced their claim to the town and recognized it as part of Poland. It was the capital of the Chelmno Voivodeship.
