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When Agata told her husband that their friend was moving to Toruń, he had wide eyes: To Torun? Who would like to live there?
A colleague works in Toruń and travels every day 50 km from Bydgoszcz. Moving is logical. But for the husband of Agata, an ancestral grandfather's noble – something unthinkable. – But what is so surprising? You like Toruń, we go to the old city – she asked. – He could not answer. In Torun you do not live and you – says Agata. – That's what they say
"That's what they say," for years. Toruń and Bydgoszcz, two capitals of Kujawsko-Pomorskie, have been waging a devastating war for centuries. The latest version is the fight for a new port. The investment is to be built near Bydgoszcz, but Toruń's adviser is not in the mood.
– I asked parents, family, friends, what this conflict is supposed to take. Nobody knew – says Agata.
Toruń, panorama of the city (photo: Wojciech Kardas / Agencja Gazeta)
Who will Ikea
– Brudasy, typhus, do not wash yourself, you have to be vaccinated before arriving at Bydgoszcz They say this kind of jokes – says Michał by finishing his beer on the Toruń Boulevard in the Vistula. [19659004] His colleague Jacek adds: – In Warsaw, at the party, I met a boy from Bydgoszcz, we smiled under the nose, everyone knew what was going on, but we did not no bitten, and as my friends said I covered the registration – mentions
Michał also adds that Toruń has a beautiful old town, which Bydgoszcz can only envy [19659004] 50 kilometers this statement can cause outrage. Especially on the island of Bydgoszcz Młyńska, the tourist center of the city with a network of intersecting channels. On a hot day, the crowds are resting here. Jacek and his friend walk along the pier looking for friends. – There is a "Bydgoszczanie" forum on Facebook. Try to write there that Toruń has a more pleasant old town. Man! Soon the great shit begins – he says
"Typhus" is the most common term in Toruń for the inhabitants of Bydgoszcz – the genesis is the epidemic that has haunted the city in the past. Bydgoszcz does not remain in debt. Przybyszów from Toruń, they call "Teutonic Knights", referring to the genealogy of the city.
Bydgoszcz, view of the city (photo Tymon Markowski / Agencja Gazeta)
Agata mentions that his friends have also resigned: Toruń? And, it's a village near Bydgoszcz. This is an allusion to the size of cities – Bydgoszcz has 350,000 inhabitants. Toruń "suddenly" 200 000
– From the child we laughed that those of Bydgoszcz are typhus, and we are better. According to my grandmother, that was what had been said before the war. Just for a joke – says Agnieszka, currently living in Warsaw. – I remember the competition for the Ikea store. In both cities, residents have crossed their fingers: that they would only build with us, not with them! She won Bydgoszcz. And since childhood, I remember the fight of slag supporters. And it's with us at the stadium, and with them.
– Tomasz Gollob was a local hero, his family club is Polonia Bydgoszcz. He promised that he would never go to Toruń. He did not keep his word and in 2012 he went to Unibax Toruń. It was a shock. Everyone was talking about treason – remembers Agata de Bydgoszcz
Rafał, currently Warsaw manager, remembers his trip to Bydgoszcz in English. On match days, he was afraid to leave the car because he had an inscription in Torun. Fans of Apator Toruń and Polonia Bydgoszcz clashed, which the most aggressive football fans would not be ashamed of. But that 's the past, because today teams are in two different leagues. – I have a lot of friends in Bydgoszcz. Sometimes, for a joke, someone will say: a cross, typhus. But that's all. There is no dispute – adds Rafał.
2009 Speedway match of Polonia Bydgoszcz with Unibax Toruń (photo: Arkadiusz Wojtasiewicz / Agencja Gazeta)
Case – I do not think so
– How it is not! – Piotr Cyprys, president of the Bydgoska Metropolitan Association, is nervous. She received the rights of the city from the hands of Casimir the Great, known to the Teutonic Order. Already there was the focus of the future conflict. Then, the seat of Złotoria Castle near Toruń, Kaźko Słupski, grandson of Casimir the Great. and how – Bydgoszcz, contrary to what he claims In the fifteenth century, Toruń, fearing competition, banned the sale of beer Bydgoszcz. Recall also that the Teutonic knights razed Wyszogród in the fourteenth century, today one of the districts of Bydgoszcz.
This count could be done, but it is important that the effects are still visible today. For example, in the fact that on the weather charts some of the TV shows show Toruń, and not – after all – Bydgoszcz! Toruń can sell for tourists, Bydgoszcz No.
When the country was divided into new voivodeships in the late 90s, Bydgoszcz was to reach Poznań. It is the inhabitants of Bydgoszcz who have won the new province, which Toruń – according to Cyprys – can hardly appreciate. The Marshal 's office came to Toruń, and it is there that the cake of the EU grants is shared. The Marshal allocates funds so that more money goes to Toruń
– But the EU money is divided by competitions, procedures – – Yes, but competitions are written for Toruń – convinces Cyprys.
Even the national authorities favor Toruń. How else to explain that the A1 motorway from Łódź to Gdańsk runs along Toruń, and not between the two cities? Why has Bydgoszcz been waiting for the S5 Express for so many years? The case? Or maybe behind the scenes of Toruń? Cypress appeals to politicians from Toruń: live and let others live!
– I would not look for sources of conflict in the Middle Ages, when Toruń was a strong Hanseatic city, and Bydgoszcz as a local center, the rivalry could hardly be said – says Dr. Michał Targowski, historian After the first annexation, Bydgoszcz went to Prussia, Toruń remained polish for 20 years, we can talk about the competition since the flow of money sank Prussian authorities in Bydgoszcz. Bydgoszcz, which opens the waterway to the west.For Toruń, the first 20 years between partitions is a period of regression. When the two cities are already in Prussia, they still gain A Bydgoszcz, it is closer to Berlin, and here the railroads will be located first. Toruń will wait another 20 years for trains. Right now, Bydgoszcz will grow quickly. – From the Napoleonic era, Bydgoszcz is more important as the capital of the regency – a Prussian middle-class administrative unit. Toruń is a poviat city. In addition, Toruń is tormented during the Napoleonic wars. The city has been besieged twice. The Prussian authorities decided to turn them into a fortress. The development of the suburbs was forbidden, no factory was built. At that time, located further from the border with Russia, well communicated Bydgoszcz welcomed investors with open arms. In the inter-war period, much smaller than Bydgoszcz, Toruń became the seat of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, while the larger and more modern Bydgoszcz was demoted to the poviat city. After the war, the roles were reversed. Bydgoszcz became the capital of the province. She had more industrial plants: Romet bike, chemical company Zachem and Pollena. For the communist authorities, it was a sufficient argument. Toruń made the decision as a punishment for the city, which became the home of the "disobedient" intelligentsia of Lviv and Vilnius. But Toruń won something else – the communists allowed the founding of the University Nicolaus Copernicus
– About this Bydgoszcz, which was twice as large as Toruń, is today called Brzydgoszcz, because it is supposed to be less beautiful than Toruń, industrial, with an image work and a subdivision, Fordon. The division of workers Bydgoszcz – the Toruń intelligentsia has proved more sustainable than the previous system. The echoes of this distinction do not diminish, as changes in social identity are slow – explains Magdalena Mateja, media expert at Nicolaus Copernicus University The expert points out: social identity is a dynamic and imaginative structure. – The conflict between Bydgoszcz and Toruń must be considered today as a myth, not very modern and especially harmful.
Fordon is the largest chamber of Bydgoszcz. 70,000 people live in a huge building at the entrance to Toruń Remigiusz walks with his daughter. The war with Toruń? Thoughts. I only think of ashes. – I worked there several times, I built playgrounds. A beautiful city. I have nothing in Toruń – she says Karolina goes to work in Toruń every day. – Many of my friends do it. There is no dispute – he assures. In the center of Bydgoszcz, on Mill Island, they also reject the conflict. – They have a beautiful old town, a fact. But what about the same thing as out of the center of both cities just as ugly? I can not see the difference – says Łukasz, who walks along the waterfront with Jacek Agata admits that he walks on foot to Toruń. – I like to come from the old city, boulevards on the Vistula. Maybe it's disloyal, but the truth is: architecturally, Toruń wins. But on the other hand, it is so trampled by tourists that it is probably better to live in Bydgoszcz. The litigation? There is not any. My father has a business near the Bydgoszcz – Toruń road. At peak times, a line of cars stretches back and forth. People from one city will work for the neighbors. And vice versa – said.
50 kilometers away, drinking beer on the Vistula boulevards, Michał admits that Bydgoszcz and Toruń sometimes win. They have an Ikea store, so you go shopping there. – I took my last CV in Bydgoszcz. IT department They have better job offers there. In Toruń, he is skinny – he adds – And during the weekend I took my family to the airport there. Sam watched the competition in triathlon, because they have a nice and big party. We know that they are bigger, so much can be done there – says Jacek, colleague of Michał Dominika, a bydgoszczanka of ancestral grandfather, works in a cultural Center. His boss arrives from Toruń. – Colleagues joke at him like, "What are the children doing in Toruń, they are playing in the city". But it's a bite so nibbling. And besides, for cultural events we go to Toruń, and once to Bydgoszcz – he adds – There is a total agreement – says Adam Kempa of the house Plexus of Infinity online recordings of Bydgoszcz. – The Toruń teams play in the club Mózg, our groups go to them at the club GDR. Total cooperation
The conflict in Bydgoszcz-Toruń, even though it was hot, seems barely smoldering today. If there is an agreement in the culture and the inhabitants do not fight, what is it? – This is a funny proposition. It is the effort to set up a sign of equality between our metropolises. Only Toruń will benefit. This is a great tribute to the poor Judasian silverware for Toruń – the president of Bydgoszcz, Rafał Bruski, thundered on Radio ESKA. The president has furiously offered the offer to extend the name of Bydgoszcz airport to the name "Bydgoszcz – Toruń".
The airport owner is the province's marshal at the company of the city of Bydgoszcz. A small part of the shares is also owned by Toruń. In June 2016, the city of Copernicus wanted to buy shares and pump 5 million zlotys into the airport. The condition was just to add the word "Toruń" to the name. The proposal triggered a political and media storm. The names have not changed at all This is another scene of the war, with Rafał Bruski, the president of Bydgoszcz, Michał Zaleski, and Piotr Całbecki, the marshal of the province. It is true that Całbecki and Bruski are together in PO, and Zaleski is a politician without a party, but that does not matter in this case. There have been more such wars in the last twenty years. It began already at the creation of the province, when the fate of the most important offices was in balance. Finally, the voivode went to Bydgoszcz, and Marshal Toruń. A participant in the negotiations, Senator Jan Wyrowiński, in a conversation with Polityka, in 2014, he boasted that Toruń authorities beat Bydgoszcz, because the marshal is a more important political figure The meaning of the trauma left no more the politicians of Bydgoszcz. From time to time, ritual charges report that the Marshal of the EU 's money division favors the hometown of Toruń. Piotr Całbecki, for the third term, explains that as a Marshal, he does not give money according to "whim", only on the basis of competitions and regulations of the EU. In 2016, he showed in "Wyborcza" that PLN 641 million went from the Regional Operational Program to Bydgoszcz and PLN 467 million to Toruń. Critics, however, did not stop it The list of conflicts is longer. The leaders of the two cities in the company with the Marshal for 10 years debated on the creation of the metropolis of Bydgoszcz-Toruń. The agreement did not take place. Bydgoszcz founded a company with neighboring municipalities, namely buzzword "Metropolia Bydgoszcz" (not to be confused with the Metropolis Bydgoska Association)
In 2006 Toruń participated in the competition for the title of the European Capital of Culture 2016. He was supported by other cities in the region, including Bydgoszcz, who, in the final stretch … presented his candidacy. Eventually, the ECOC fell to Wroclaw During the 2015 campaign, PiS and PO deputies argued that Collegium Medicum College located in Bydgoszcz should disconnect from the Nicolaus Copernicus University to which he officially belongs. In Bydgoszcz, a committee was created to persuade students to leave the university, in Toruń, the collection of signatures began, so as not to change anything. In 2017, it turned out that the film festival Camerimage, born and having had seven editions in Toruń, but which took place in Łódź and – recently – in Bydgoszcz, will stay here four years . Later, he will return to Toruń, where a new congress center will be established for this purpose. The indignant Mayor of Bydgoszcz said that "Bydgoszcz can not be a storage facility." The same year, a large transhipment port will be built near Bydgoszcz, where containers from Gdynia and Gdańsk will be delivered. Toruń's advisers' reaction was a letter to the government to locate the port in Toruń And so on … – Żenada – summarizes Rafał, native Toruń, for years in Warsaw. On television, he was watching the debate on the exclusion of Collegium Medicum from Nicolaus Copernicus University structures, which argued that it was a shame for Bydgoszcz. – The level of discussion of the deputies below the criticism. Listening to these political disputes, I am ashamed.
– These are purely political acts. And they could hear and make a decent road between the two cities – says Agata de Bydgoszcz.
– Bydgoszcz has a great opera, they also had to build a concert hall in Toruń. Why? Agnieszka Agnieszka from Toruń joins her. Dr. Magdalena Mateja of the Nicolaus Copernicus University has no doubt: it would be in the interest of Bydgoszcz and Toruń to create a two-seater square. But the problem is that the past dominates in building the identity of the community. You do not think about the future. – Politicians win for the creation of the myth of conflict, for which it is a tool to mobilize voters. Nothing integrates the group as a conflict with the other group. It is in the interest of individuals, but also of various organizations, to maintain the memory of the conflict, pouring oil into the fire – adds – from the Mill island at the boulevards of the Vistula: this dispute was invented by politicians – I talk to Piotr Cyprys about the Metropolis Bydgoska association, which was also candidate for the post of mayor of Bydgoszcz But we do not can not persuade him. – What kind of residents? Where did you talk to them? Probably some misunderstandings about the city. And you do not visit Toruń more often? – he asks.
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Bartosz Józefiak. He lives in Łódź. He has worked in local newspapers in Łódź, Wrocław and Pabianice, collaborating with "Duży Format" and "Tygodnik Powszechny". He is a graduate of the Polish School of Reporting and his future is associated with the report.
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Siege of Toruń by the Swedish Army in 1658, after the work of Pufendorf Caroli Gustav … vita and res gestae, 1697, graphics by EJ Dahlberg (wikimedia.org / public domain) [19659007] Brzydgoszcz against the intelligence
Panorama of Bydgoszcz from 1657 on the engraving of Erik Dahlberg (wikimedia .org / public domain)
What's going on?
Old town of Toruń (photo: Wojciech Kardas / Agencja Gazeta)
Trauma of Politicians
Mayor of Bydgoszcz Rafał Bruski (photo: Lukasz Antczak / Agencja Gazeta)
Michał Zaleski, President of Toruń (photo: Mikołaj Kuraś / Agencja Gazeta)
And you are more often in Torun?
The Mill Island (photo: Grażyna Marks / Agencja Gazeta)
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