OUR COUNTRY, CITY AND SURROUNDINGS
OUR COUNTRY
Our country has got seven neighbors. From the north side we have got access to the Baltic Sea.
From the north east side we have got border with Rossia and Lithuania. From the east side we have got border with Belarus.
Ukraine is from us on east-south. From the south side we have got border with Slovakia and from the south-west is Czech Republic. If you drive on the west side you will come to Germany our last one neighbor.
At the moment on Belarusian border is uninteresting situation. There in the forests are refugees, whose was leaving there by Belarusians. They trying to get to Poland, but our government sent there soldiers who look after on them so that they don’t get to our country. So they try come back to their nation, but Belarusian government doesn’t let them back.
Our total lenght has got 3511,49km. The longest one border is with Czech republic. It has got 795,91km, and the shortest with Lithuania has got 104,38km. Our sea border has got 439,74km. In therms of area, Poland is 9 from among 48 Europe countries.
Nowy Dwór Gdański
Nowy Dwór Gdański (German: Tiegenhof) is a town in the Pomeranian Province, in the north of Poland. It is located on the Tuga river in the central part of Żuławy Wiślane.
A bit of history of the town
The most important event in the town’s history was the granting of civic rights by Emperor William I in 1880. There were breweries, a linen weaving mill, a tobacco factory, a soap factory, and a sugar factory in the town.
After World War I, as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, on January 10, 1920 Nowy Dwór Gdański was incorporated into the Free City of Gdańsk and gained the status of the capital of the Żuławy district.
On September 1, 1939, Nowy Dwór Gdański was incorporated into the borders of the Third Reich. During World War II, life was apparently normal, but transports to the Stutthof concentration camp departed from the railway station in Nowy Dwór Gdański.
On March 11, 1945, the town was occupied by the Soviet army. As a result of the war and the flooding of Żuławy by the retreating German troops, Nowy Dwór suffered huge losses. The native people had to leave Żuławy. They were gradually replaced by Polish settlers from various parts of Poland. Initially, the town cut off from the world, without water and electricity was getting stronger and better throughout years. The drying operation ended in 1948.
Places to visit
There are a few places worth seeing while you visit Nowy Dwór Gdański, for example:
- buildings with only one floor are characteristic for the region;
- water tower from 1909;
- a drawbridge from 1936;
- Żuławy Community Centre - built in 1935-1937 as a cultural and entertainment complex;
- Żuławy Historical Park, part of which is the Żuławy Museum.
THE TEUTONIC CASTLE IN MALBORK
Our town is placed near a few bigger cities like Gdansk, Gdynia, Elblag or Malbork. Each city is wonderful and has something special however Malbork stands out from the others because there is an ancient teutonic castle. This is such a pleasure and pride to have that epic monument, even more since it’s inscribed on the World Heritage List UNESCO. If you want to read more about the castle I encourage you to look at this page: https://zamek.malbork.pl/historia.
The Teutonic Castle in Malbork in a hystorical way:
The Teutonic Castle in Malbork is located in the north part of Poland, on the eastern bank of the Nogat River. It’s the best example of a gothic castle complex made of brick, in the characteristic, unique style of construction of the Teutonic Order.
The Monastic state in Prussia was formed in the thirteenth century by German monks-knights, leading crusades against pagan Prussians and Lithuanians, settled on the south coast of the Baltic Sea, as well as against the Christian Kingdom of Poland. It reached its splendor in the fourteenth century. The castle-monastery on the Nogat River is a sign of the drama of late Christianity, with a contrast between the desire for holiness and the use of violence.
From the second half of the eighteenth century, Malbork Castle was one of the most important sources of history of the European Middle Ages and its remains. His recent past illustrates the tendency to treat history and its monuments as tools in political ideologies.
From the nineteenth century to today, the Malbork castle complex remains the subject of conservation works. Conservation work was carried out in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After heavy destruction, which it suffered in the final phase of World War II, the castle was reconstructed again.
Malbork Castle, apart from its existence in its material substance, is also deeply present in the social consciousness, as saturated with emotions, an important sign of the history of Central Europe.
Gdańsk
Gdansk is quite big city, to be accurate it’s 6th on the list of biggest cities in Poland and there live around five hundred thousands of people. It’s situated near the Baltic Sea so it’s perfect for tourists to visit in the summer time. Gdańsk also have many places you can go to in your free time. If you are into getting knowledge about history Gdańsk will be really nice place for you to spend some time there due to the dramatic but at the same time interesting past of the history of it. You can get to know the times were in Poland in the past so well. There are many museums that are mostly free, and you can know more about history in not a boring way at all. It’s the kind of entertainment I personally enjoy the most. Besides museum there are remnants of the wars for example one of them is the peninsula Westerplatte. The main battle that happened there is the battle of Westerplatte in which were fighting against each other German and Poland.
Other historical place you can go to and see is Old city Gdańsk. That’s the oldest part of the city that is full of old monuments or very old building, each of them has their own history, that you can learn about from the guide of course only if you are visiting these places with one or you can search for some extra informations on the internet, beside that next to some monuments there are tables with a short note about it. In my own opinion Gdańsk has really deep history that is worth the time you spend to know it.
There are few quite interesting places in Poland and one of them is beautiful and charming Hel Peninsula. This peninsula is 35 kilometers long, mostly a sandbar. It's located in northern Poland and it's around 100 kilometers away from Nowy Dwór Gdański. The Hel Peninsula separates the Bay of Puck from the open Baltic Sea. It also belongs to the Coastal Landscape Park. The peninsula have military and historical importance to our country - there were a lot of actions happening there. One of the most common is Battle of Hel that happened at the very beginning of World War II. Nowadays, a road and a railroad run along the peninsula from the mainland to the town located at the furthest point - Hel, a top tourist destination. Other towns are Jurata, Jastarnia, Kuźnica, Chałupy, and Władysławowo. Activities such as kitesurfing, windsurfing and surfing are smashing there. Ton of young people are going there, year by year, just to have fun and enjoy wind and waves. I have been there a few times too, so I know what I’m saying 🙂
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