Torun Brama Chelminska od poludnia through time

Toruń 1880–1903 3 photos of this spot

3 photographs taken at the same spot in Toruń, spanning 1880–1903 — 3 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Known locally as Koci Łeb, or 'Cat's Head,' this tower formed part of the medieval fortifications that once encircled the old town of Toruń, Poland. The image was captured in 1880, when the ramparts still ringed the historic Hanseatic city on the Vistula River.

Torun baszta Koci Leb2 1880 Known locally as Koci Łeb, or 'Cat's Head,' this tower formed part of the medieval fortifications that once encircled the old town of Toruń, Poland. The image was captured in 1880, when the ramparts still ringed the historic Hanseatic city on the Vistula River.

Torun Brama Chelminska od poludnia 1880 The Chełmno Gate, one of the historic entrances to Toruń's old town in Poland, is shown here from the south in an 1880 photograph. Toruń's fortified gates and towers date back to the city's founding by the Teutonic Knights in the thirteenth century.

Torun baszty 25 i 27 1903 Towers 25 and 27 of Toruń's old town fortifications, photographed in 1903.