Circling through Poland - with a bit of Germany thrown in.

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More of the outside






Pretty obvious wartime damage



The High Castle





The size of the castle can be hard to grasp.

The town mascot again









This is only a small portion of the photos we took. This place requires many hours to even scratch the surface. We didn't even walk around the perimeter.

 

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We then walked to Malbork train station.

Passing a model of the castle on the way there



The centre of town



Equestrian state of King Casimir IV. King of Poland 1447 - 1492 - "under him, Poland defeated the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years' War and recovered Pomerania."



We were surprised about how impressive the railway station was. It was built in 1891. As I have said before Imperial Germany was good at constructing impressive railway stations. It was lucky enough to have survived WW2 relatively unscathed.

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Malbork railway station ranks as one of the town’s best preserved and oldest buildings. Completely renovated in recent years the building dates from 1891 and features beautifully restored ceramics in the extremely elegant ticket hall. While the station dates from the end of the 19th century,

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This waiting room almost makes you want to wait.





The platforms.



On the way back to Gdansk we passed over the Vistula River and through Tzcew passing the remnants of a historic bridge. This was built in
1851 -1857 as a road/rail bridge. On completion it was the longest bridge in Europe. It was rebuilt several times after WW2 due to flooding damage as well as war damage. There has been controversy about work being carried out on it because of its historical importance.

"On the morning of September 1, 1939, the bridges were bombed, the purpose of which was to damage the mine wires. Polish railway workers prevented a freight train arriving from Malbork and carrying a company of Wehrmacht engineers from entering the bridge. After repairing the cables at 6:10 AM, Polish engineers blew up the eastern section of the bridges, and then the western piers . In retaliation, the naz_s shot 21 Polish railway workers, customs officers, and members of their families"

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