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MARIENBURG (Polish, Malborg)

MARIENBURG (See also:
POLISH
Polish, Malborg) , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

province of See also:

West See also:

Prussia, 30 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail to the S.E. of See also:

DANZIG, or DANTSIC (Polish Gdansk)

Danzig in a fertile See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain on the right See also:

BANK

bank of the Negat, a channel of the See also:

VISTULA (Ger. Weichsel, Polish Wisla)

Vistula, here spanned by a handsome railway See also:

BRIDGE

bridge and by a bridge of boats. Pop. (19o5), 13,095. Marienburg contains large chemical See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool-cleaning See also:

WORKS

works and several other factories, carries on a considerable See also:

trade in See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, See also:

wood, See also:

LINEN

linen, feathers and brushes, and is the seat of important See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse and wool markets. Its educational institutions include a gymnasium and a See also:

PROTESTANT

Protestant normal school. In the old See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market-See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, many of the houses in which are built with arcades, stands a See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic town-See also:

hall, dating from the end of the 14th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. The town is also embellished with a See also:

FINE

fine statue of See also:

Frederick the See also:

GREAT

Great, who added this See also:

DISTRICT

district to Prussia, and a See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument commemorating the See also:

war of 1870-71. Marienburg is chiefly interesting from its having been for a century and a See also:

HALF

half the See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of the See also:

GRAND

grand masters of the See also:

Teutonic See also:

order. The large See also:

castle of the order here was originally founded in 1274 as the seat of a See also:

SIMPLE

simple See also:

COMMANDERY (through the Fr. commanderie, from med. Lat. commendaria, a trust or charge)

commandery against the See also:

pagan Prussians, but in 1309 the headquarters of the grand See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master were transferred hither from See also:

Venice, and the " Marienburger Schloss" soon became one of the largest and most strongly fortified buildings in Germany. On the decline of the order in the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 15th century, the castle passed into the hands of the Poles, by whom it was allowed to fall into neglect and decay. It came into the See also:

possession of Prussia in 1772, and was carefully restored at the beginning of the 19th century. This interesting and curious See also:

BUILDING

building consists of three parts, the Alt- or Hochschloss, the Mittelschloss, and the Vorburg.

It is built of See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick, in a See also:

style of See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture See also:

PECULIAR

peculiar to the Baltic provinces, and is undoubtedly one of the most important See also:

SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

secular buildings of the middle ages in Germany. Of the numerous monographs published in Germany on the castle of Marienburg, it will suffice to mention here See also:

BUSCHING, ANTON FRIEDRICH (1724-1793)

Busching's Schloss der deutschen See also:

Ritter zu Marienburg (See also:

Berlin, 1828) ; Voigt's Geschichte von Marienburg (See also:

KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

Konigsberg, 1824) ; Bergau's Ordenshaupthaus Marienburg (Berlin, 1871); and Steinbrecht, Schloss Marienburg in Preussen (8th ed., Berlin, 1905).

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