Malbork - The Castle, part 3
It's time to finish my reports about Malbork castle. This time about military art and some not so bright moments in the history of the castle.
Marienburg was built as a stronghold of the Teutonic knights to baptize Baltic tribes. So in the interiors you can find art works illustrating this period. For example this medieval stained-glass shows the process of the baptization of Prussian tribes:
Frescoes illustrating Crusades from the Teutonic point of view:
Coat-of-the-arms of Henrik von Plauen:
Commanders :
Marienburgian version of the Last Dinner :))
In this room negotiations with the heads of the states of foreign countries were carried on:
Typical decorations in the corridors:
Entrance to the important room:
Walking around:
Ceramics:
Castle suffered a lot in 1945 ... A devastation could be seen on the photo shown today in the castle:
But even more devastation was done after the was due to the robberies and luting. This photo of 1949 shows the increased level of devastation:
Only in 1959 castle has been taken under the protection of the Polish state and the restoration process has been started.
There is some mystery that always suffers most that part of the monument which is the most pretty. The same is true for Marienburg - the biggest devastation suffered the church of the castle. And this devastation is seen today also...
The church wasn't restored fully:
Some artifacts from the blown church:
So about this view today we only could dream ...
Poor monument of Hindenburg : it was forced to withstand shootings of soviet soldiers in 1945:
The Marienburg castle was captured three times but onl in the late XVIth-XVIIth century when it's strategic importance wasn't so big and the military technology was on entirely different level of development comparing with XIVth century. The portraits of capturers - Carl Gustaw Adolf, Axel Oxensterna, Carl X (all of Sweden) and Peter I of Russia:
Another interesting fact is that Teutonic order still exists today with headquarter in Vienna. Of course these days is mainly hospital order. Modern Crusaders sometimes visits Marienburg :))
And to finish this report I want once more presenting oldest church in Malbork - the church of St. John:
The final picture is showing the neighbors of old medieval town hall of Marienburg ...
good blog
Marienburg was built as a stronghold of the Teutonic knights to baptize Baltic tribes. So in the interiors you can find art works illustrating this period. For example this medieval stained-glass shows the process of the baptization of Prussian tribes:
Frescoes illustrating Crusades from the Teutonic point of view:
Coat-of-the-arms of Henrik von Plauen:
Commanders :
Marienburgian version of the Last Dinner :))
In this room negotiations with the heads of the states of foreign countries were carried on:
Typical decorations in the corridors:
Entrance to the important room:
Walking around:
Ceramics:
Castle suffered a lot in 1945 ... A devastation could be seen on the photo shown today in the castle:
But even more devastation was done after the was due to the robberies and luting. This photo of 1949 shows the increased level of devastation:
Only in 1959 castle has been taken under the protection of the Polish state and the restoration process has been started.
There is some mystery that always suffers most that part of the monument which is the most pretty. The same is true for Marienburg - the biggest devastation suffered the church of the castle. And this devastation is seen today also...
The church wasn't restored fully:
Some artifacts from the blown church:
So about this view today we only could dream ...
Poor monument of Hindenburg : it was forced to withstand shootings of soviet soldiers in 1945:
The Marienburg castle was captured three times but onl in the late XVIth-XVIIth century when it's strategic importance wasn't so big and the military technology was on entirely different level of development comparing with XIVth century. The portraits of capturers - Carl Gustaw Adolf, Axel Oxensterna, Carl X (all of Sweden) and Peter I of Russia:
Another interesting fact is that Teutonic order still exists today with headquarter in Vienna. Of course these days is mainly hospital order. Modern Crusaders sometimes visits Marienburg :))
And to finish this report I want once more presenting oldest church in Malbork - the church of St. John:
The final picture is showing the neighbors of old medieval town hall of Marienburg ...
good blog