Wartownia Nr 1 na Westerplatte, Oddział Muzeum Historycznego Miasta Gdańska

Westerplatte No. 1 Station is one of the six guards built in the 1930s. Thanks to the move in 1967 to the present site, it avoided demolition.

In 1924 the decision of the Council of the League of Nations since 1926 Westerplatte peninsula was transferred to Poland as a base for reloading weapons and ammunition. Securing the warehouses and the whole area of ​​the Military Transit Warehouse was occupied by the 88-member Polish Army Corps. His composition was changed every six months. In order to better protect the warehouse area, between 1933 and 1934 four ferroconcrete watchtowers were built, and two years later a barracks building was built. In the summer of 1939, about 217 soldiers and reservists mobilized from civilian staff were reinforced in the German-Polish relations.

Commander of the Warehouse since 1938 was Major Henry Sucharski and commander of the crew of Captain Franciszek Dabrowski. Mauser rifles consisted of approximately 40 heavy machine guns and Mauser rifles. 98, 2 caliber anti-tank gun 37 mm, old 75 mm gun and 4 caliber mortars 81 mm.

On September 1, 1939, at 4.48, the first missiles arrived in Gdansk with the "courtesy visit" of the German battleship Schleswig Holstein signaled an infantry attack on the Polish base. Bombed from the air and fired by German guns and mortars, Polish soldiers defended themselves for seven days. On September 7, with a decisive advantage of the enemy and the depletion of the crew, Major Henryk Sucharski decided to surrender. During this fight, 15 Polish soldiers were killed, many wounded. German losses are unknown today. After the capitulation, Polish soldiers were sent to German POW camps where they stayed until 1945.

During the whole period of fighting for Westerplatte Wartownia Nr 1 was a key point of Polish defense. The fire from the shelter in the cellar and from the windows in the ground part prevented the Germans from penetrating the peninsula or port channel into the central part of it. The building, though shattered with shrapnel and Cecily's balls, remained undamaged. The commander of this heroic point of Polish defense was Piotr Buder. With about 15 personal staff, they fell in battle with Zygmunt Zięba and Jan Czywil.

From the former facilities of the Polish institution on Westerplatte, the Wartownia Nr 1 (the only one accessible to the public), Wartownia nr 4, the former power plant, 2 ammunition warehouses (now occupied by the army) and the ruins of the barracks building have survived. In 1967, rescuing it from demolition, it was moved during a complicated technical operation to the present site. It was on the port quay - today the ferry.

In June 1974, a Chamber of Remembrance was organized in the Interior of the Vault, organized by the ZboWiD in the New Port. In 1980, it was transformed into an existing branch of the Historical Museum of the City of Gdańsk.

In the interior of the Warden there are souvenirs of the Military Transit Warehouse and its defenders.