Malbork (German: ''Marienburg'') is a

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in the

Pomeranian Voivodeship Pomeranian Voivodeship ( ; ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk. The voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999, out of the former voivodeships of Gdańsk Voivo ...

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. It is the seat of Malbork County and has a population of 36,709 people as of 2024. The town is located on the Nogat river, in the historical region of

Pomerelia Pomerelia, also known as Eastern Pomerania, Vistula Pomerania, and also before World War II as Polish Pomerania, is a historical sub-region of Pomerania on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland. Gdańsk Pomerania is largely c ...

. Founded in the 13th century by the Knights of the Teutonic Order, the town is noted for its medieval

Malbork Castle The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork, commonly known as Malbork Castle (; ), is a Brick Gothic castle complex located in the town of Malbork, Poland, built in the 13th and significantly expanded in the 14th century. It is the largest cast ...

, built in the 13th century as the order's headquarters, which was also one of the residences of Polish kings and seat of notable

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Polish institutions.

History of the castle

The town was built in

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around the

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Ordensburg Marienburg, which was founded in 1274 on the east bank of the river Nogat by the

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. Both the castle and the town (named Marienburg in German and Malborg or Malbork in Polish) were named for their patron saint, the

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. This fortified

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became the seat of the Teutonic Order and

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's largest Gothic fortress. During the Thirteen Years' War, the castle of Marienburg was pawned by the Teutonic Order to their soldiers from

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. They sold the castle in 1457 to King Casimir IV of

in lieu of indemnities. From 1457 to 1772 the castle was one of Poland's royal residences. Polish kings often stayed in the castle, especially when travelling to the nearby city of

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. Also, astronomer

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visited the castle. From 1568 the castle also housed the Polish Admiralty (''Komisja Morska'') and in 1584 one of the Polish Royal Mints was established here. The largest arsenal of the

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was located in the castle. Under continuous construction for nearly 230 years, the castle complex is actually three castles combined in one. A classic example of a medieval fortress, it is the world's largest brick castle and one of the most impressive of its kind in Europe. The castle was in the process of being restored by the Germans when

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broke out. During the war, the castle was over 50% destroyed. Restoration has been ongoing since the war. The castle and its museum are listed as one of

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History of the town

Middle Ages

The town of Marienburg grew in the vicinity of the castle. The river Nogat and flat terrain allowed easy access for barges a hundred kilometers from the sea. During

's government by the Teutonic Knights, the Order collected tolls on river traffic and imposed a monopoly on the

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trade. The town later became a member of the

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, and many Hanseatic meetings were held there. Polish artillery during siege of Malbork in 1410

The Teutonic Order weakened greatly after the

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against advancing Poles and Lithuanians. The town was burned by the Teutonic Knights in 1410 before the siege of the castle by Poles, however it remained under Teutonic control after the siege. In 1457, during the Thirteen Years' War, the castle was sold to Poland by

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mercenaries of the Teutonic Knights, and the Teutonic Order transferred its seat to

Königsberg Königsberg (; ; ; ; ; ; , ) is the historic Germany, German and Prussian name of the city now called Kaliningrad, Russia. The city was founded in 1255 on the site of the small Old Prussians, Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teuton ...

(now Kaliningrad, Russia). The town, under Mayor Bartholomäus Blume and others, resisted the Poles for three further years. But when the Poles finally took control, Blume was hanged and quartered, and fourteen officers and three remaining Teutonic knights were thrown into dungeons, where they met a miserable end. A monument to Blume was erected in 1864, after the town's annexation by

in the

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. The town became capital of the Malbork Voivodeship in the Polish province of Royal Prussia (and later also in the Greater Poland Province) after the Second Peace of Thorn (1466).

Modern period

Within Poland, Malbork flourished thanks to the Polish grain and wood trade and craft development. New suburbs were created due to lack of space within the defensive walls. In the 17th century, Swedish invasions took place. During the

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in 1710, half of the population died of a cholera epidemic. After the wars, new inhabitants, including immigrants from

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, settled in the town, mainly in the suburbs. In 1740 Malbork ceased to be a fortress. It was annexed by the

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in the

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in 1772 and became part of the newly established province of

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the following year. Prussians liquidated the municipal government and replaced it with new Prussian-appointed administration. In the early 19th century, Prussian authorities acknowledged the town's Polish-speaking community, ensuring that priests could deliver the sermon in Polish. In 1807, during the

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, the French entered the town, and in 1812 the

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marched through the town heading for Russia.

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has visited the town in those years. In October–December 1831, various Polish cavalry and infantry units of the

November Uprising The November Uprising (1830–31) (), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in Russian Partition, the heartland of Partitions of Poland, partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. ...

stopped in the town and its environs on the way to their internment places, and later on, one of the insurgents' main escape routes from partitioned Poland to the

Great Emigration The Great Emigration () was the emigration of thousands of Poles and Lithuanians, particularly from the political and cultural élites, from 1831 to 1870, after the failure of the November Uprising of 1830–1831 and of other uprisings such as ...

led through the town. There were no

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fights, however, the town felt the war's negative effects: the influx of refugees, inflation, unemployment, and food supply shortages. Under the terms of the

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after

, the inhabitants were asked in a plebiscite on 11 July 1920 whether they wanted to remain in Germany or join the newly re-established Poland. In the town of Marienburg, 9,641 votes were cast for Germany, 165 votes for Poland. As a result, Marienburg was included in the Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder within the German Province of

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. During the Weimar era, Marienburg was located at the tripoint between Poland, Germany and the

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. The town was hit by an economic crisis following the end of World War I. After a brief recovery in the mid-1920s, the

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was particularly severe in East Prussia. In January 1933,

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and the

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came to power and immediately began eliminating political opponents, so that in the last semi-free elections of March 1933, 54% of Marienburg's votes went to the Nazis. After the

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in September 1939, leaders of the Polish minority were arrested and sent to

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World War II

During

a Focke-Wulf aircraft factory was set up at the airfield to the east of Marienburg. It was bombed twice by the

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in 1943 and 1944. Today the airfield belongs to the 22nd Air Base of the

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. During the war, the Germans established the Stalag XX-B

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in the present-day district of Wielbark, among the prisoners of which were Polish, British, French, Belgian, Serbian, Italian, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian POWs. Also a

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camp was established, and several forced labour subcamps of the Stalag XX-B POW camp. Some expelled Poles from Pomerania were enslaved by the Germans as forced labour in the town's vicinity. The Polish resistance was present in the town and would smuggle underground Polish press and data on German concentration camps and prisons, and organize transports of POWs who escaped the Stalag XX-B to the port city of

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, from where they were further evacuated by sea to neutral

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. Near the end of World War II, the city was declared a

and most of the civilian population fled or were evacuated, with some 4,000 people opting to remain. In early 1945, Marienburg was the scene of fierce battles by the Nazis against the

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and was almost completely destroyed. The battle lasted until 9 March 1945. Following the town's military capture by the Red Army, the remaining civilian population disappeared; 1,840 people remain missing. In June 1945, the town was turned over to Polish authorities who had arrived in the town in April and renamed it to its historic Polish name, Malbork. The German population that had not fled was expelled in accordance with the

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. Half a century later, in 1996, 178 corpses were found in a mass grave in Malbork; another 123 were found in 2005. In October 2008, during excavations for the foundation of a new hotel in Malbork, a mass grave was found containing the remains of 2,116 people. All the dead were said to have been German residents of pre-1945 Marienburg, but they could not be individually identified, nor could the cause of their deaths be definitely established. A Polish investigation concluded that the bodies, along with the remains of some dead animals, may have been buried to prevent the spread of typhus, which was extant in the turmoil at the end of World War II. The investigation was thus closed on 1 October 2010 as no justifiable suspicions of any crime were found. Majority of the dead were women and children most likely dead from hunger, diseases, cold and as collateral casualties of war operations, only a few of the bones had markings showing possible gunshot wounds. On 14 August 2009, all the dead people's remains were buried in a German military cemetery at Stare Czarnowo in Polish Pomerania, not far from the German border.

Post-war period

After World War II, the town was gradually repopulated by

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, many expelled from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union. In February 1946, the population of the town reached 10,017 people, then by 1965 grew further to 28,292 and by 1994 to 40,347. In April 1945 the

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resumed work, in May a Polish post office was established and the first post-war Polish services were held in the St. John church, in September Polish schools were opened. In the following years, most of the war damage was removed, and in 1947 the railway bridge on the Nogat was rebuilt, after it was destroyed by the Germans in March 1945. A new road bridge was built in 1949. In 1946 a sugar factory was established. Also following the war, the Old Town in Malbork was not rebuilt; instead the bricks from its ruins were used to rebuild the oldest sections of

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and

. As a result, with the exception of the Old Town Hall, two city gates and St. John's church, no pre-World War II buildings remain in the Old Town area. In place of the old town, a housing estate was built in the 1960s. In 1962, a

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factory was established in Malbork, which soon became one of the largest pasta factories in Poland.

Sports

The town's football clubs are Pomezania Malbork (men) and Jastrząb Malbork (women), both currently playing in the lower divisions. There are various other clubs in the town, dedicated to sports such as

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, swimming,

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and

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, as well as a number of youth sports clubs.

Sights

The greatest landmark of Malbork is the

, listed as a

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and Historic Monument of Poland. Other notable sights include: * Gothic Saint John the Baptist church *Gothic town hall (''Ratusz'') *Partially preserved medieval town walls with ''Garncarska'' (Pottery) and ''Mariacka'' gates *

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Our Lady of Perpetual Help church *Monument of Polish King

Casimir IV Jagiellon Casimir IV (Casimir Andrew Jagiellon; ; Lithuanian: ; 30 November 1427 – 7 June 1492) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 until his death in 1492. He was one of the most active Polish-Lithuanian rulers; under ...

*Municipal water tower *

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cemetery with 240 graves, mostly of POWs who died in the area during both wars, especially in the World War II Stalag XX-B camp.

Notable residents

* Dietrich von Altenburg the 19th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1335 to 1341 * Winrich von Kniprode the 22nd Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and the longest serving from 1351 to 1382 * Konrad von Jungingen (c.1355-1407) the 25th grand master of the Teutonic Order in 1393–1407 * Stibor de Poniec of

Clan of Ostoja The Clan Ostoja (Moscics), Clan of Ostoja (old Polish: ''Ostoya'') was a powerful group of knights and lords in late-medieval Europe. The clan encompassed families in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (including present-day Belarus and Ukraine ...

, Starost of Malbork in 1460 * Jakob Karweyse (active in 1492), goldsmith, first printer in Prussia * Achatius Cureus ( de) (1531–1594), author and lyricist * Bartholomaeus Praetorius (c.1590–c.1623) a German composer * Adalbert Krüger (1832–1896) a German astronomer * Carl Legien (1861–1920), leading politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany * Stanisław Taczak (1874–1960), general and commander-in-chief of the Great Poland Uprising; died in Malbork * Bruno Kurowski (1879–1944) a German lawyer and politician of the

* Erich Kamke (1890–1961) a German mathematician, specialized in the theory of differential equations * Erich Abraham (1895–1971), general * Heinz Galinski (1912–1992), president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, 1988–1992 * Alfred Struwe (1927–1998), actor * Hartmut Boockmann (1934–1998) a German historian, specializing in medieval history * Ulrich K. Preuss (born 1939), German jurist * Klaus Ampler (1940–2016) a German cyclist, competed at the

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Wolfgang Barthels Wolfgang Barthels (born 23 November 1940 in Marienburg) is a former German footballer. Club career Barthels played more than 220 East German top-flight matches. International career He won 2 caps for the East Germany national team. ...

(born 1940), a retired German football player, over 200 games for F.C. Hansa Rostock * Christel Lau (born 1944) a retired German field hockey player *

Grzegorz Lato Grzegorz Bolesław Lato (Polish pronunciation: ; born 8 April 1950) is a Polish former professional association football, football player and manager who played as a winger (association football), winger. He was a member of Poland's golden gene ...

(born 1950), former striker for the Poland national football team and politician * Jarek Dymek (born 1971) a Polish former strongman competitor * Shamek Pietucha (1976–2015) a Polish-born Canadian swimmer who represented Canada in the

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* Izabela Bełcik (born 1980) a Polish volleyball player, Poland women's national volleyball team 1999–2014 * Rafał Murawski (born 1981) a Polish footballer, over 400 club games and 48 games for Poland * Aneta Florczyk (born 1982) a Polish female athlete and strongwoman * Marcelina Zawadzka (born 1989), model, Miss Polonia 2011, semifinalist Miss Universe 2012 and TV presenter * Otto Dietrich zur Linde (fictional), character of

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' short story '' Deutsches Requiem.''

International relations

Malbork is twinned with: * Margny-lès-Compiègne,

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''(since 2004)'' * Monheim am Rhein,

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''(since 2005)'' * Nordhorn,

''(since 1995)'' * Sölvesborg,

''(since 1999)'' *

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''(since 1997)'' * Volodymyr,

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''(since 2023) ''

Gallery

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Citations

Notes

References

External links

Municipal website

Malbork City Guide

Tourist InformationMalbork portal

The Malbork Castle MuseumAccommodation and travelling in Malbork
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