Malbork Castle and the Teutonic Order.

I find your voice extremely annoying that i can't watch the video to the end

In the region there are many castles from the same period as Malbork Castle, made from bricks. Same of them have been destroyed like in Gdańsk or Toruń, but still many of them exist and can be visited: Radzyń Chełmiński, Golub, Olsztyn. You can find the map and information about the castles in Internet. Number of them is really impressive.

It's worth mentioning that due to the location, the lack of natural resource to produce brick, and the time that castle was built it is very much possible that the castle had already stood there before the Teutons took the land. The research shows that the castle ruins were recovered by the Teutons and the existing materials were used to re-erect the castle.

Quite informative video, considering it's only 12 mins long. However, it would make sense to explain that the native Prussians (Slavic tribes) were annihilated by the German Teutons, and later the Prussian Kingdom was "Prussian" only by the name (Slavic name). While many people consider Prussians to had been German, somebody who doesn't know the history of the region might get confused and think that those were the same people. Sometimes it's better to slow down and show the full picture.

Teutonic Order reminds of today Wagner mercenaries. Worth to mention that cities settled by majority of Prussians and influenced by Hanseatic League colonists but the provinces settled by ancient Baltic tribes mixed with Slavic, Ruthenic, Vikings and other settlers. The castle is symbol of past Holy City war, colonialism and violence against locals.

what i pick up from this story, is that since year0
where the czech republic was liquidated by catholicism, POLAND was not.
czech played mediator between the romans and polish.
and the long term distinction was evident throughout european history

The 'Order' was Swiss, [Jurgen]. The religion was money and greed.
The lower classes were mercenaries and chancers from West Europe.
Not Xtian, but freemasonic from the Levant

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What happend to the first Cat? (The black one).

This was excellent. By explaining the meaning of a place, you end up telling the whole history of a region, a religious order, and an attitude which is transformative people who live by it, even today. Thank you!

Please make a video on El Escorial commissioned by Philip II of Spain!

I searched for this castle and was pleased to find THG has this offering. This is miles ahead of other video on the topic, rich in history and details, no filler!

Thanks!

cat torturer

You're a cat guy! Good.

All about the cat :-)

KITTY! 😻

Thank you for peeking into that distant history of the Teutonic Knights and their role in the settlement of East Europe.

Awesome

Love your channel. Thanks for this episode Blofeld

There was a different cat at the start

3000 knights 3000 horse's 3000 grooms + cooks, clean up etc no wonder that castle huge🙂

I went to this castle once. It's HUGE. Very happy to see this video, thank you History Guy!

Pretty sure Denmark also played a part in the Baltic crusades, but it might have been earlier.

The bigest castle in the world and bigest structure made with bricks in the world.

more more how about the great churches too 🧐🧐🧐

I'm glad they're repairing what WW2 destroyed.

Fantastic. I wish that I'd known this info back in 2010, when we visited Poland. Our route from Warsaw to Gdansk would have taken us right by there. Thanks for this video.

Great content and very through, thanks for all the effort put into your videos. Keep up the informative work.

I always like it when you do the history of a place I've visited. it's a fantastic place to tour and you can spend all the time you want there. When we were there they had a Renaissance fair type of thing going on. A great visit.

Can we say Danzig , Gdansk is the after WW2

I live in Malbork!

I visited Malbork almost 30 years ago, me still a kid, Poland still in sovjet times. I still remember the castle well and have seen many since, even living right at the foot of one of Europe's most impressive ones now, but Malbork impressed me so much as a little kid, It'll always be the ultimate castle for me. A lot of impressive castles are build up high on a rock daring anybody to try and take it, which seems impossible and which make them impressive. Malbork however is build on the plains and yet is still impressive, simply because it is huge, imposing, screaming "I am powerful". Other castles need geography to be impressive, Malbork is impressive on its own. If you ever have the chance, go see it.

I had the pleasure of visiting Molbork Castle in 1997 while touring various parts of Poland. During our visit, we were told that one of the primary reasons for the construction of the castle, was to help defend Europe from the potential threat of Muslims trying to implement their Islamic faith in Europe. Another cool aspect about the renovations at the time was the large Chapel ‘there are other Chapels through out the castle that are smaller’ that faced the River Nogat. During the close of WWII, the Soviets had lined up a column of T-34 tanks on the opposite side of the river, and shelled many areas of the castle, with the Chapel area taking severe damage. I remember walking into that large Chapel, and being a Mason, the layout was just like a Masonic Lodge in so many ways. I was astonished to say the least at the very close resemblance. In the center of the Chapel floor, there was a very large acrylic donation box for the renovations, and I dropped about 20 Euros into the box. Upon my return home, I walked out to my mailbox and discovered an unexpected refund check from Farmers Insurance for $178 bucks. Call it a coincidence, but to this day I believe it was due to that donation for the Chapel renovation. I really enjoyed this history video Sir. Awesome, Awesome…

A slight note, it's worth mentioning that the Polish and the Order were far from opposed early on in the northern crusades. I believe it was the taking of Danzig rather than settling a dispute in the early 1300s that truly brought them against each other.

In the majority of the 13th century however, they seemed to be close allies in the region.

What?! There are TWO History Cats!? 😺

Good history...

So …. you’re just gonna …. not introduce or talk about History Cats?

C’mon man.

"a tile falls off the roof next to a weary man who sighs and goes into a door marked ceiling tiles and the extremely long ladder"

Im from malbork

I'm just here for the cat...

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Great info

I live in Malbork :D Regards to all of you! <3
Great video,thank you for it :D.

Being of Polish descent....I was unaware of this piece of history! I'll try to remember

An interesting thing about the castle is that it had central heating in the main buildings from the start. supposedly something they picked up in the holy land.

Thanks for the insight. All of your stuff is well done and informative.

What happened to the cat picture?!

Outstanding as always!

Nice video! I live in the North of Germany and I have visited the castle with my two boys on a vacation in Poland. The castle is very impressive and the boys had a great time! The castle was built with red baked bricks because the whole Baltic area does not have many suitable stones quarries for masonry. The red bricks are still very much in use btw.

I love brick 🧱 buildings and I love castles 🏰 A brick castle you say? I’m sold!