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Gniew Castle
Location	Gniew, Poland
Coordinates	53°50′03″N 18°49′40″E / 53.83417°N 18.82778°E / 53.83417; 18.82778
Built	after 1290
Architectural style	Gothic
Location of Gniew Castle in Poland

Gniew Castle is a restored castle in Gniew, in northern Poland. The original building, which served as a defensive structure for the Teutonic Order on the Vistula river, dates back to the late 13th or 14th century.^[1]

History

The structure, a Gothic ordensburg castle, is a former castle of the Teutonic Order, built after 1290. By the Second Peace of Toruń (1466) Gniew once again became Polish and the castle was given to nobleman Jan de Jani of the Clan of Ostoja, the voivode of Pomerania by the Polish King. It has been expanded and rebuilt several times since. Within the Kingdom of Poland, it served as the seat of the starosts of Gniew, including its most famous resident future King John III Sobieski, who built the adjacent Baroque palace for his wife Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien.^{[citation needed]}

It was destroyed by a fire in 1921 and was reconstructed in its current form between 1968 and 1974.^[1]

See also

• Castles in Poland

References

External links

• Gniew Castle History (English)
• Gniew Castle

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