Kwidzyn (
pronounced ; german: Marienwerder;
Latin
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: ''Quedin'';
Old Prussian: ''Kwēdina'') is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an o ...
in northern
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
on the
Liwa River, with 38,553 inhabitants (2018).
It is the capital of
Kwidzyn County in the
Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pomorskie Region, or Pomerania Province ( Polish: ''Województwo pomorskie'' ; ( Kashubian: ''Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò'' ), is a voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk.
Th ...
.
Geography
Kwidzyn is located on the
Liwa River, some
[ east of the ]Vistula
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The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in ...
river, approximately south of Gdańsk
Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...
and southwest of Kaliningrad
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. It is part of the region of Powiśle.
History
The Pomesanian settlement called ''Kwedis'' existed in the 11th century. In 1232, the Teutonic Knights
The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem, commonly known as the Teutonic Order, is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was formed to aid Christians o ...
built the castle
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and established the town of Marienwerder (now Kwidzyn) the following year. In 1243, the Bishopric of Pomesania received both the town and castle from the Teutonic Order
The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem, commonly known as the Teutonic Order, is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was formed to aid Christians on ...
as fiefs, and the settlement became the seat of the Bishops of Pomesania within Prussia
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. The town was populated by artisans and traders, originating from towns in the northern parts of the Holy Roman Empire
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From the accession of Otto I in 962 unt ...
. A Teutonic knight, Werner von Orseln, was murdered in Marienburg (Malbork) in 1330. He was among the first to be buried in the newly erected cathedral of the town.
St. Dorothea of Montau lived in Marienwerder from 1391 until her death in 1394; future pilgrims visiting her shrine
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would contribute to the flourishing economy.
The Prussian Confederation
The Prussian Confederation (german: Preußischer Bund, pl, Związek Pruski) was an organization formed on 21 February 1440 at Kwidzyn (then officially ''Marienwerder'') by a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 cities in Prussia, to oppose the ...
, which opposed Teutonic rule, was founded in the town on March 14, 1440. The town itself joined the organization on 17 April 1440. Upon the request of the organization in 1454 Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon incorporated the region and town to the Kingdom of Poland, and the Thirteen Years' War broke out. In 1466, after the defeat of the Teutonic Knights in the war, the town became part of Poland as a fief
A fief (; la, feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a form ...
held by the Teutonic Knights. In 1525, the Teutonic state was transformed into a secular and Lutheran duchy
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There once existed an important difference between ...
under the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Albert, a political foundation only possible with the consent of the Polish King Sigismund I the Old
Sigismund I the Old ( pl, Zygmunt I Stary, lt, Žygimantas II Senasis; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548. Sigismund I was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, the ...
. The town was visited by Polish Kings Sigismund II Augustus
Sigismund II Augustus ( pl, Zygmunt II August, lt, Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler ...
in 1552 and Stephen Báthory in 1576. In 1618 the ducal rights were inherited by the Brandenburg
Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 squ ...
branch of the House of Hohenzollern, remaining under Polish suzerainty. In 1657 the Brandenburg dukes severed ties with the Polish crown and in 1701 elevated their realm to the sovereign Kingdom of Prussia
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.
The town of Marienwerder meanwhile had become the capital of the District of Marienwerder. In 1772, the Marienwerder district was integrated into the newly established Prussian Province of West Prussia
The Province of West Prussia (german: Provinz Westpreußen; csb, Zôpadné Prësë; pl, Prusy Zachodnie) was a Provinces of Prussia, province of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and 1878 to 1920. West Prussia was established as a province of the Kin ...
, which consisted mostly of territories annexed in the First Partition of Poland.
By the enlargement of its administrative functions, the population of the town started to grow and in 1885, it numbered 8,079. This population was composed mostly of Lutheran
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inhabitants, many of whom were engaged in trades connected with the manufacturing of sugar, vinegar and brewing as well as dairy farming, fruit growing and the industrial construction of machines. In 1910, Marienwerder had a population of 12,983 of which 12,408 (95.6%) were German-speaking and 346 (2.7%) were Polish-speaking.
As a result of the Treaty of Versailles
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after World War I
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, the district of Marienwerder was divided. The parts west of the Vistula were incorporated into the Polish Second Republic, which had just regained its independence. The parts east of the Vistula, to which the town of Marienwerder belonged, was to take part in the East Prussian plebiscite
The East Prussian plebiscite (german: Abstimmung in Ostpreußen), also known as the Allenstein and Marienwerder plebiscite or Warmia, Masuria and Powiśle plebiscite ( pl, Plebiscyt na Warmii, Mazurach i Powiślu), was a plebiscite organised in a ...
, which was organized under the control of the League of Nations
The League of Nations (french: link=no, Société des Nations ) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference th ...
. The Inter-Allied Commission with nearly 2,000 troops often favored the Germans, and its services towards Poles were often delayed and limited, while the administration remained under German control. The town was home to the Polish Warmian Plebiscite Committee and the Committee for Polish Affairs, which, however, had to operate partly secretly. On May 16, 1920, the largest Polish plebiscite demonstration in Powiśle took place in the town, and Poles had to organize defenses against attacks by German militias. These conditions combined with German electoral fraud[''Plebiscyt 1920 roku. Walka o Polskość Warmii, Mazur i Powiśla'', p. 18] resulted in 7,811 votes given to remain in East Prussia, and therefore Germany, and only 362 for Poland. Afterwards, anti-Polish
Polonophobia, also referred to as anti-Polonism, ( pl, Antypolonizm), and anti-Polish sentiment are terms for negative attitudes, prejudices, and actions against Poles as an ethnic group, Poland as their country, and their culture. These incl ...
terror intensified.[
According to the ]Geneva Conventions
upright=1.15, Original document in single pages, 1864
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, the Polish community was entitled to its own schools, and from 1934 local Poles strove to establish a Polish school. The Germans blocked the establishment of the school, and Polish organizations filed 100 complaints to the German administration before the Polish private gymnasium was finally established on November 10, 1937.[ Local German press incited the Germans against the Polish school, and in 1938 a fourteen-year-old boy was shot at the school playground, which the German police ignored, and the shooter was not caught.][ The Germans, especially the ]Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth (german: Hitlerjugend , often abbreviated as HJ, ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. ...
, repeatedly harassed and attacked Polish students and devastated the school.[ It was forcibly closed down on August 25, 1939. The German police surrounded the Polish school and arrested its principal Władysław Gębik, 13 teachers, other staff and 162 students, who were imprisoned in Tapiau (today Gvardeysk),] and then deported elsewhere. Later on, students under the age of 18 were released, older students were forcibly conscripted into the Wehrmacht
The ''Wehrmacht'' (, ) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the ''Heer'' (army), the '' Kriegsmarine'' (navy) and the ''Luftwaffe'' (air force). The designation "''Wehrmacht''" replaced the previo ...
, while teachers and staff were deported to concentration camps,[ where most of them were murdered. The head of the local Polish ''Bank Ludowy'' was also arrested, and the local Polish consulate was cut off from telephone lines, nevertheless the ]state radio
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in Poland still provided information regarding the attack on the Polish school on the same day.[
Nazi Germany co-formed the '' Einsatzgruppe V'' in the town, which then entered several Polish cities and towns, including Grudziądz, Mława, Ciechanów, ]Łomża
Łomża (), in English known as Lomza, is a city in north-eastern Poland, approximately 150 kilometers (90 miles) to the north-east of Warsaw and west of Białystok. It is situated alongside the Narew river as part of the Podlaskie Voivodeship ...
and Siedlce
Siedlce [] ( yi, שעדליץ ) is a city in eastern Poland with 77,354 inhabitants (). Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously the city was the capital of a separate Siedlce Voivodeship (1975–1998). The city is situated b ...
, to commit various atrocities against Poles during the German invasion of Poland
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, which started World War II
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. Many Poles expelled from German-occupied Poland were deported to forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...
in the town's vicinity. The Germans also operated a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp in the town. On January 30, 1945 in the last months of World War II, the town was captured by the Soviet Red Army. The Red Army established a war hospital in the town for 20,000 people. The town centre was burned and pillaged by Soviet
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soldiers.
After World War II
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, the region became again part of Poland by the Potsdam Agreement
The Potsdam Agreement (german: Potsdamer Abkommen) was the agreement between three of the Allies of World War II: the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union on 1 August 1945. A product of the Potsdam Conference, it concerned th ...
, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which stayed in power until the 1980s. Most of the German-speaking people of the town and district fled
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or were expelled in accordance to the Agreement, and were replaced with Poles, many of whom had themselves been expelled from the Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union. In 1947, Ukrainians from the Soviet border regions were forcibly settled in the area as a result of Operation Vistula. From 1975 to 1998, it was administratively located in the Elbląg Voivodeship
Elbląg Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1975 to 1998, superseded by the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Its capital city was Elbląg.
Major cities and towns (p ...
. In 1982, the communists brutally crushed the protest of interned anti-communist oppositionists.
Points of interest
The main landmark of Kwidzyn is the medieval Castle and Cathedral complex, listed as a Historic Monument of Poland. The Kwidzyn Castle is a 14th century Brick Gothic
Brick Gothic (german: Backsteingotik, pl, Gotyk ceglany, nl, Baksteengotiek) is a specific style of Gothic architecture common in Northeast and Central Europe especially in the regions in and around the Baltic Sea, which do not have resourc ...
Ordensburg castle of the Pomesanian Cathedral Chapter, which now houses a museum. The adjacent Co-Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist was built between 1343 and 1384, and serves as a Co-Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Elbląg
The Diocese of Elbląg ( la, Elbingen(sis)) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese located in the city of Elbląg in Poland. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Warmia.
His ...
. It contains the tombs of three Grand Masters of the Teutonic Knights as well as numerous bishops. A bridge connects the castle to a sewer tower. This tower used to be by a river which has since changed its course, leaving the tower on dry land.
Other sights include the Appellate Court for Kwidzyn County, the town hall, the Holy Trinity church, the Saint Padre Pio chapel, various government buildings and old townhouses.
Economy
A branch of International Paper is located in Kwidzyn, as is the Kwidzyn School of Management.
The second biggest employer in Kwidzyn is Jabil, a global electronics manufacturing services Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) is a term used for companies that design, manufacture, test, distribute, and provide return/repair services for electronic components and assemblies for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The concept is ...
company.
The city has lower average crime and unemployment rates when compared with the national average rates of Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
. These lower rates are attributed to sports programmes for youth such as MMTS Kwidzyn (handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the ...
) and MTS Basket Kwidzyn.[Turystyka, historia, zabytki.](_blank)
Kwidzyn ''Moje miasto''.
Sports
The town's main sports clubs are:
* MMTS Kwidzyn, handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the ...
club which plays in the Polish Superliga
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(top division; as of 2022), runners-up in season 2009–10
* Basket Kwidzyn, basketball
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club which plays in the lower leagues, but played in the Polish Basketball League (top division) in the past
* Rodło Kwidzyn, football
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club which plays in the lower leagues
Transport
The intersections of Polish National roads 55 and 90, Voivodeship roads 521 and 532, and Voivodeship roads 518 and 588, are located either in Kwidzyn or just outside of the town limits. There is also a train station.
Notable people
* Dorothea of Montau (1347–1394), hermitess and visionary of 14th century Germany, canonized in 1976.
* Paul Speratus
Paul Speratus (13 December 148412 August 1551) was a Swabian Catholic priest who became a Protestant preacher, reformer and hymn-writer. In 1523, he helped Martin Luther to create the First Lutheran hymnal, published in 1524 and called ''Achtliede ...
(1484–1551), Catholic priest who became a Protestant preacher, reformer and hymn-writer
* Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell
Eduard Heinrich Flottwell (23 July 1786 – 28 May 1865; after 1861 von Flottwell) was a Prussian '' Staatsminister''. He served as ''Oberpräsident'' (governor) of the Grand Duchy of Posen (from 1830) and of the Saxony (from 1841), Westphali ...
(1786–1865), Prussian Staatsminister and Regierungspräsident of Marienwerder in 1825
* Hans Adolf Erdmann von Auerswald
Hans Adolf Erdmann von Auerswald (1792 – September 18, 1848) was a Prussian general and politician.
Biography
Auerswald was born in Faulen, West Prussia where the family possessed the estates of Plauth and Tromnau.
He entered the Prussia ...
(1792–1848), Prussian general and politician
* Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793–1866 in Marienwerder), amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets
* Rudolf von Auerswald (1795–1866), Prime Minister of Prussia
* Carl Julius Meyer von Klinggräff (1809–1879), German botanist
* Hermann von Dechend (1814–1890), first President of the Reichsbank
* Heinrich Julian Schmidt
Heinrich Julian Schmidt (March 7, 1818 – March 27, 1886) was a German journalist and historian of literature.
Biography
He was born in Marienwerder (today Kwidzyn) in West Prussia.
After studying history and philosophy at the University o ...
(1818–1886), German journalist and historian of literature
* Rudolf Heidenhain (1834–1897), German physiologist
* Gustav Cohn
Gustav Cohn (12 December 1840 in Marienwerder, West Prussia – 17 September 1919) was a German economist, noted for his pioneering contributions to the theory and policy of transportation and public finance. He was educated at Berlin and Jena un ...
(1840–1919), German economist, particularly re. public finance
* Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau
Elard Kurt Maria Fürchtegott von Oldenburg-Januschau (20 March 1855 - 16 August 1937) was a German Junker and conservative politician.
He embodied the prototype of the arch-conservative, militaristic and anti-democratic East Elbian Junkers both ...
(1855-1937 in Marienwerder), German Junker and conservative politician.
* Kurt Rosenfeld
Kurt Rosenfeld (1 February 1877 – 25 September 1943) was a German lawyer and politician (SPD). He was a member of the national parliament () between 1920 and 1932.
Early life
Kurt Samuel Rosenfeld was born at Marienwerder, a mid-sized town near ...
(1877–1943), lawyer and politician
* Józef Krasnowolski (1879–1939), Polish painter
* Fritz Goerdeler (1886–1945), German jurist and resistance fighter; mayor 1920-33
* Joachim Witthöft __NOTOC__
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(1887–1966), general
* Kurt-Jürgen Freiherr von Lützow __NOTOC__
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(1892–1961), general
* Ida Siekmann (1902–1961) nurse, first victim of Berlin Wall
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* Ernst Schiffner
Ernst Günther Schiffner (23 July 1903, Marienwerder, West Prussia – 20 March 1980, Hamburg or Celle) was a German actor and director.
Life
The merchant's son had already played theater since 1919 and received his first roles at the Schausp ...
(1903–1980), German actor and director
* Ernst Tillich (1910–1985), German theologian
* Bernard Friese (1927–2010), co-founder of Gilbern cars
* Hardy Rodenstock (born 1941), music publisher and manager; dealer in old and rare wine
* (1947–2006), Polish test pilot
* Wiesław Hartman (born 1950), Polish show jumping equestrian, silver medallist in the 1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
* Wojciech Belon (1952–1985), Polish poet, songwriter and folksinger
* Izabela Tomaszewska (1955–2010), Polish government official and archeologist
* Tomasz Piotr Nowak (born 1956), Polish politician
* Jacek Borcuch (born 1970), Polish actor and film director
* Marek Szulen (born 1975), Polish composer of electronic music, lives in the Netherlands
* Maciej Silski
Maciej Silski (also known as Maciek Silski, born 10 January 1976 in Kwidzyn, Poland) is a Polish singer who rose to fame in his country after winning '' Idol Poland 4'', the Polish version of '' Pop Idol'', televised by Polsat. He won with 53.58% ...
(born 1976), Polish singer
* Patryk Rombel (born 1983), Polish handball coach, currently coaching the Polish national team
Burials
* Werner von Orseln (c.1280–1330) the 17th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
* Otto Friedrich von der Groeben (1657–1728) a Prussian explorer, officer and German Generalleutnant in Polish service
Gallery
File:Kwidzyn, katedra, ob. kościół p.w. św. Jana Ewangelisty.jpg, Kwidzyn Cathedral
File:SM Kwidzyn Sąd Rejonowy (0) ID 636613.jpg, District court
File:SM Kwidzyn Braterstwa Narodów 50 Poczta (0) ID 636564.jpg, Post office
File:Kwidzyn, Powiślańska Szkoła Wyższa - panoramio.jpg, Powiślańska Szkoła Wyższa (''Powiśle College'')
File:Budynek Sztabowy Koszar Wojskowych w Kwidzynie - widok od tyłu.jpg, Neo-gothic complex of barracks, 19th century
File:Adoration Chapel in Kwidzyn.jpg, Saint Padre Pio chapel
File:Kwidzyn-kosciol-sw-Trojcy.jpg, Holy Trinity church
File:Kwidzyn, Urząd Finansowy, ob. biblioteka, kon. XIX.JPG, Library and a monument of Józef Piłsudski
File:Dworzec Kolejowy na ul. Kościuszki 54 w Kwidzynie.jpg, Train station
File:Kwidzyn, dawny szpital św. Jerzego.jpg, Former Saint George hospital
File:Kwidzyn palac Fermora 07.jpg, Vocational school
File:Kwidzyn, kino Tęcza - panoramio.jpg, Former casino and cinema building
International relations
Kwidzyn is twinned with:
References
Sources
* Stephen Turnbull: ''Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights: The Red-Brick Castles of Prussia 1230-1466'', October 2003
eBook, PDF
External links
Municipal website
{{Authority control
Cities and towns in Pomeranian Voivodeship
Kwidzyn County