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Diocesan Sanctuary of Our Lady of Sorrows in Skrzatusz
The diocesan Sanctuary of Our Lady of Sorrows in Skrzatusz, known as the Czestochowa of the North, was for centuries a mainstay of Catholicism, a place famous for miraculous healings.
In 1575, during the Reformation, a statue of Our Lady of Sorrows was brought to Skrzatusz from Mielęcin. Since then, Skrzatus has become known for miracles and graces granted through the intercession of the Skrzatus Lady.
John III Sobieski, in gratitude for the fulfillment of his request for victory over the Turks, sent generous gifts here, and Wojciech Konstanty Breza, starosta of Nowy Dwor, built a magnificent temple. The Baroque church, which still exists today, was built in 1687-1694, and was prayed in by King Stanislaw Leszczynski, Cardinal Pacceli, later Pius XII, and Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, later John Paul ll.
The temple is richly decorated in Baroque style - the main altar dates back to the end of the 17th century. The walls of the presbytery display frescoes from 1698, depicting the history of the sanctuary. The pulpit and baptismal font are from the late 17th century, the richly decorated side altars were made at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. The first organ also dates from the turn of the 17th century, while the second, larger one was made in 1876.

Drinking water

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Jezioro Zamkowe

Kapliczka przydrożna Matki Bożej Bolesnej

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Piła Główna Station
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Recreational area in Różewo
There is a playground and a shelter where you can take shelter from the rain.

Recreational area at the community center in Przybkowo
There is a playground and a shelter where you can take shelter from the rain.

The Heritage Park - Grupa Warowna Cegielnia [The Fortified Complex - 'The Brickyard']
The Fortified Complex Cegielnia, which is a part of the fortifications of the Pomeranian Wall, is located between Lake Zamkowe and Lake Chmiel Duży.
This section of the Pomeranian Wall served as a seal between the natural barriers that were used in the planning and building of fortifications of the Wałcz Lake District.  Roughness of the terrain, however, made it possible to create a defence line with the hidden lookout and shooting positions. Therefore, between 1932 and 1936 shelters for machine-gun positions of a wide range of fire through the use of armoured cupolas, rooms hiding field anti-tank guns and lookout posts were built. In 1944, fortifications began to be expanded: additional shooters' posts, anti-infantry and antitank obstacles, reinforced concrete observation and battle posts were started to be erected.
As a result, the core of the FC Cegielnia is made up of the two so-called B-type shelters - the B - Verks. The first shelter is equipped with a six-rifle observation dome and a flanking casemate. The other one was a passive shelter with weapons only in the flanking casemate. The posterns of each shelter lead to two towers equipped with a 3- rifle dome.  There are also two multi-sector B1 shelters, strengthened to the B type at places. They had no armoured domes and their protection was in the form of armour plates.
The Fortified Complex Cegielnia assumed the form of two lines shelters. The first line includes main shelters, multi-sector buildings and two single-sector shelters with anti-tank firewalls. The second one comprises the bunkers / or the B1 combat shelter of various applications - flanking and frontal fire, a passive and observation shelter for anti-tank guns and their operators - a unique building in the Pomeranian Wall.
The positions were strengthened in 1944 by several small shelters called colloquially the Tobruks.
The fortifications manned by more numerous German forces on 25th and 26th January 1945. Soviet troops began first operations there on 31st January, regular harassing fire from mortars and by light artillery started on 6th February. On 11th February, this fortified complex was abandoned by the Germans.
The bunkers were blown up by Polish and Russian sappers at the turn of February 1945 and a barbed wire was demolished in subsequent years, also the ditches were filled up, and the appearance of the area was changed as a result of sand extraction and creation of landfills.  The remains of one of the shelters collapsed as a result undermining in the 1980s.
Currently, it is used as a military museum, which is a branch of the Wałcz Land Museum. In addition to the public shelters, what is prepared for visitors there is a permanent exhibition in the exhibition pavilion and an interesting exhibition of militaries, often supplied with more vehicles and various types of weapons. What is more, Na Bunkrach Cinema operates there on the occasion of the events. Several times a year, the Heritage Park and the environs are the stage of various events like outdoor stage productions, concerts, military parades. The Wałcz Land Museum regularly organises rallies passing by the fortifications of the Pomeranian Wall that end with a military picnic.

The St Peter and St Paul branch church
The first church in Dobino existed already in the early 14th century. It is not certain if this wooden building survived up to the 19th century or it was rebuilt in the meantime. There are, however, preserved records about Swedish troops plundering the church in 1635. Soldiers stole then, among other things, a precious chalice and 1000 guldens. In 1836 a brick building was erected in place of much damaged church. The new church was built in the neo-Romanesque style, of granite stones and ceramic bricks (corners, reveals, window framing, and cornices).  Initially, the building had no tower, which was added in 1909.
It is a single-nave church with a rectangular presbytery ending with a sacristy built on a half hexagon plan with a separate entrance in the eastern part. The main door, to which two wide steps lead, are located in the lower part of the tower, built in the first stage of the construction. It is a wooden, double, panel doors. The panels are filled with planks decorated with diagonal muntin bars. The fanlight is topped with a semi-circular arch, divided vertically into three parts, which were, in turn, divided into four uneven parts with muntin bars. The main entrance portal is topped with a semi-circular arch. The wall above the portal is built partially of granite rocks, but just over the cornice that tops the nave is fully made of brick. In the front wall, above the entrance portal, there are two semi-circular windows, and in both side walls, there are single non-plastered blind windows in form corresponding to the windows. Above them, there are additional, narrow, single windows. In the highest storey of the tower, in the front and the rear wall, there are two windows similar in shape but located somewhat differently than the windows on the lower storey. The side walls have single windows covered with wooden blinds. The church tower is covered with pitched roof topped with a quadrilateral roof lantern with conical cupola finished with a metal sphere with a cross.
The façades of the side walls of the nave are divided with two large windows topped with semi-circular arches. In the walls of the presbytery, there are three windows of the same shape. Architectural ornaments that enrich the appearance of the façades are string courses running around the walls of the building at the height of parapets and the intrados of the windows, and the cornices girding the tower.
Originally, the church in Dobino was a branch church of the parish of St Nicholas in Wałcz. In 1923, it was separated from this parish as a local curacy; in 1932 it became an independent parish. Nowadays, it is a branch of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish church in Skrzatusz.

The suspension bridge
For many years, there has been a bridge connecting the Bukowina in Wałcz with the forest on the other side of Raduń Lake. The name of the bridge - the Kłosowski bridge, was taken from the name of that forest.  Before the bridge was built, You had had to go around Raduń Lake to get to the other side, or use a carrier with a boat. It happened that the carrier did not always hear the call when he was on the opposite shore ... In the winter of 1890-1891, after long preparations a bridge was built at the narrowest point of the lake. Residents and tourists were able to walk comfortably around the Bukowina and the Kłosowski Forest. While building a bridge, they did not foresee, however, that it would be an obstacle for ships - it was a wooden construction hanging rather low. A resident of Wałcz, who moved to Berlin, presented the town with two small steam ships in 1910.  The ships had quite high chimneys, so it was necessary to elevate the bridge in its central part, which gave it scenic beauty. That bridge was a favourite motif on the pre-war postcards and a venue of romantic meetings. There is even a legend about the bridge and unrequited love:
Well, over 100 years ago, on a beautiful spring day on the bridge was Julia, a very young resident of Wałcz, shielding from solar radiation with a lace umbrella. A few of her relatives - father, mother, a little brother were standing next to her. Then a boat with a fiercely rowing young man appeared on the lake. He looked at the group of people standing on the bridge and paddled away. But Julia looked at the boatman and fell in love with him right away with her first youthful love. From that day on, she took the family for frequent walks to Raduń Lake, she sometimes slipped out alone, hoping to see the object of their sighs again. Indeed, she succeeded a few times and these meetings fuelled her feelings. She dreamed of the moment when they finally get to know personally, imagined the next meeting, proposal, and finally marriage.
They exchanged salutations after some time. Although the young man looked interested in Julia, their knowledge never developed as the girl imagined. The athlete was not going to play the role of Romeo. His name was Uwe and he willingly chatted with Julia, was telling jokes, he even asked her and her brother on a boat ride. Julia was waiting for something more, though. One day Uwe said that he was going back home to Berlin for two months, but would return to continue training. Julie got sad, but hope appeared in her heart - maybe Uwe wanted to talk with his family about them? Maybe his parents would accept her and their acquaintance would finally turn into what she had dreamed about?
And Julia began to dream more boldly. She believed in the dreams to such an extent that she told her parents about them as if they were reality. She said Uwe went to talk with their parents about the wedding. She was a good match, her father was a wealthy merchant, so the future son-in-law could count on a good dowry. The family began to plan the wedding. Julia watched the models of wedding dresses, an in the end it was decided to make the purchase in Berlin in the most famous and most expensive company. When Julia was watching the dresses, another young lady - a beautiful slender blonde with green eyes, was buying a wedding dress. Those eyes stuck in Julia's memory, they were like water in Raduń Lake.
A return to Wałcz with a wedding dress was joyful. Julia was happy as a child, imagining herself as a bride and then - a happy wife. She planned a honeymoon - a romantic trip to Venice. Two months passed. The girl eagerly awaited the beloved, being completely sure of his marriage proposal. She stood on the Kłosowski bridge every day, waiting for the familiar boat. Finally, she saw him sailing. Her heart beat with joy, but suddenly she rubbed her eyes with a surprise - there a girl with Uwe in the boat! Uwe waved cheerfully at Julia and, after sailing close to her, exclaimed: - 'Welcome Miss Julia! I would like to introduce my wife Gertruda von Wenzlau!' And Julia saw a beautiful woman with green eyes - green like water in the lake! She nodded at her, but she was unable to stutter a single word from her tightened throat. She turned away and ran back home.  She cried for three days and three nights without telling the family what happened. And when she stopped crying, she pulled out the wedding dress from the wardrobe, put it on, and left the house. As if in a lunatic dream, she headed for the bridge. She stood on it for a while looking at the water, which reminded her about Gertrude's eyes. -'This colour is my death ...' - thought Julia, and jumped into the water.
For many years, a white figure in a wedding dress was allegedly seen on the Kłosowski bridge. Now, when there is a suspension bridge in its place, Julia's spirit appears on the shore of the lake, looking for an old wooden bridge to check from it if the beloved is approaching in his boat...
During the war, the bridge was destroyed, but after some time Polish soldiers built a new wooden bridge as community service, which was converted into a steel suspension bridge in 1978. The suspension bridge on Raduń Lake is now a popular tourist attraction in Wałcz.

Traffic disruptions. Construction of a roundabout on Wojska Polskiego Avenue in Piła.
The route crosses a construction site. Local detours and disruptions are possible.

Traffic disruptions. Construction of the southern bypass of Wałcz on national road 22.
The route crosses a construction site. Local detours and disruptions are possible.

Wałcz Station
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