Cultural: A Visit to Czersk - castle ruins

A little over a week ago we had some American young ladies visit us from southern Poland. They had wanted to see a bit of Warsaw.

While they were here, we took them to some castle ruins that are pretty close by - Czersk.

This weekend the theme was “The Golden Age vs. the Age of War” in Poland - the 1600s vs. the 1700s.

There’s a tower in this one and you can walk up to the top almost.

During the summer on every weekend they have some people doing demonstrations there.

The ladies dressed up in their special garments were very friendly and shared a lot of information with us. I’m showing this in the pictures below - each picture is titled so you can see what it is about.

Here are some examples of weaving from 5000 years ago. It's a sort of "dublet" style - no right/wrong side of the finished product.

This mother/daughter duo were very friendly and helpful. Their English was good as well!

The whole outfits from the 1600s.

Samples of various hand work

Weaving in a simple loom from the 1800s

A simple loom project

These socks were made with these needles - made from bone or wood

This young lady was making buttons.

Buttons

I'd never held linen thread before - so I asked if I could.

SaraBeth being shown how to weave using a sort of wooden board pieces with holes creating a two sided effect

Laiken trying her hand at weaving

Showing us a gun from that era

The swords were very long!

It's long AND heavy!

SaraBeth showing us how heavy it is!

This very heavy metal pot was for their beer! They drank directly out of it!

Demonstrating how they made money

A recently made coin! Very recently!

Freshly minted!

We didn’t stay a long time - it was just castle ruins after all - there was no actual castle to walk around in - just walls to stand on and look out over the valley of the Vistula River - which I didn’t do.

We had to get back and get dinner and get the young ladies to their train so they could head south!

A special thanks to the re-enactors who gladly let me take their pictures.

Thanks for coming along on our very quick (a couple of hours) trip to the castle ruins of Czersk - located just south of Warsaw!

Have a great day!

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