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Grudziądz

Grudziądz [ˈɡrud͡ʑɔnt͡s] (Latin: Graudentum, Graudentium, German: Graudenz) is a city in northern Poland, with 92,552 inhabitants (2021).[1] Located on the Vistula River, it lies within the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship and is the fourth-largest city in its province. The Old Town of Grudziądz and 14th-century granaries were declared National Historic Monuments of Poland.

Grudziądz
  • From top, left to right: City panorama and the Grudziądz Granaries
  • Market Square
  • Town Hall
  • Water Gate
  • Former Benedictine monastery
Motto(s): 
Grudziądz – Miasto Otwarte
(Grudziądz – Open city)
Grudziądz
Grudziądz
Coordinates: 53°29′15″N 18°45′18″E / 53.48750°N 18.75500°E / 53.48750; 18.75500
CountryPoland
VoivodeshipKuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Countycity county
First mentioned11 April 1065
Town rights18 June 1291
Government
 • MayorMaciej Glamowski
Area
 • Total57.76 km2 (22.30 sq mi)
Elevation
50 m (160 ft)
Population
 (31 December 2021)
 • Total92,552 [1] (40th)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
86–300 to 86–311
Area code+48 056
Car platesCG
Highways
Websitehttp://www.grudziadz.pl

Geographical location edit

Grudziądz is located close to the east shore of the river Vistula,[2] approximately 22 km (14 mi) north-east of Świecie, 93 km (58 mi) south of Gdańsk and 170 km (106 mi) south-west of Kaliningrad. It is located in Chełmno Land.

History edit

Early medieval Poland edit

Grudziądz was founded by the Duke of Poland, Bolesław I the Brave[3] of the Piast dynasty.

Initially Grudziądz was a defensive stronghold, known as a gord. The fortress and tower were built to protect the Poles from attacks by the Baltic Prussians.[4]

Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights edit

The settlement was re-fortified again from 1234 by the Teutonic Order. The erection of the castle, with the help of stone as building material, was begun around the middle of the 13th century. Under the protection of the castle the settlement gradually began to develop into a town.

In 1277 both "the castle and the town" were besieged heavily by the Yotvingians.[citation needed] The settlement adopted Kulm law in 1291 while under the rule of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights.[4]

The oldest building parts of the Catholic St. Nicholas' Church stem from the end of the 13th century. The Holy Spirit Church, which apparently was founded during the 13th century, is mentioned together with the town's hospital for the first time in 1345.[citation needed] Other documents reveal that in the 14th century the town already had a well-developed infrastructure. A document of 1380, as an example, refers to the construction of an aqueduct, a fountain and a town-hall cellar.[citation needed]

During the era of the State of the Teutonic Knights, Graudenz had become a distinguished trade center in particular for textiles and agricultural products including grain.[citation needed] Around 1454, Graudenz had already reached about the same level of economic development as other towns in the western part of the State of the Teutonic Order, such as Danzig (Gdańsk), Elbing (Elbląg), Thorn (Toruń), Marienburg (Malbork), Kulm (Chełmno), Konitz (Chojnice), Neumark (Nowe Miasto Lubawskie) and Preußisch Stargard (Starogard Gdański).[citation needed]

Kingdom of Poland edit

 
The Water Gate and the city walls of Grudziądz, 14th/15th century

In 1440, the city co-founded the Prussian Confederation which opposed the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights. At the beginning of the Thirteen Years' War (1454–66), the citizens forced the Teutonic Order to hand over the castle. The confederation asked the King of Poland, Casimir IV Jagiellon to join Poland. The King agreed and signed the act of incorporation in Kraków in March 1454.[5] Although there was support the Knights inside the city walls[citation needed] during the entirety of the war, both the city and the castle remained under Polish control. The 1466 peace treaty confirmed the re-incorporation of Grudziądz to Poland.[6]

Between 1454 and 1772 the city was part of the Polish Chełmno Voivodeship, which itself was since 1466 part of the Polish province of Royal Prussia, soon included in the larger Greater Poland Province. The Grudziądz Castle was seat of the local starostas (royal administrative officials). It was often visited by Polish kings.

 
Siege of Grudziądz by the Swedes in 1655

After the great depression of the Thirteen Years' War, new economical growth in the town was slow before the middle of the 16th century. Economic progress was hampered by the religious struggles and by the Polish–Swedish wars throughout the 17th century.[citation needed] At the end of 1655, during the Swedish Deluge, the city and its castle were captured by the Swedes and occupied for four years. In 1659, the Swedes had been besieged for several days and retreated. During their departure, part of the town was destroyed by fire.[citation needed]

In 1522, Nicolaus Copernicus, who aside from his astronomical work was also an economist, presented his treatise Monetae cudendae ratio in Grudziądz. In it he postulated the principle that "bad money drives out good" which became known as the Gresham's law or the Gresham–Copernicus law. This work included an early version of the quantity theory of money – a key concept in economics.[7]

 
Grudziądz Town Hall, former Jesuit college building

Following Protestant Reformation, in 1569 the local Protestants were given access to the Holy Spirit Church; in 1572 Catholicism seemed to have vanished almost entirely in the town.[citation needed] In 1597 King Sigismund III Vasa gave order that the Protestants had to return all churches taken over by them in the past to the Catholics, including all accessories. The Protestants remained in possession solely of St. George's Church until in 1618 when the base of the building was washed away by the Vistula River and the church was torn down. For a while, they used once more the vacant Holy Spoirit Church, until in 1624 this building together with the hospital had to be handed over to nuns of the Order of Saint Benedict for the purpose of founding an affiliated institution.[citation needed]

Since 1622 Jesuits from Toruń had a station in Grudziądz, which in 1640 was already so strong that it was able to form a residence in Grudziądz, despite of objections from the side of the magistrate of the town.[citation needed] In 1648 construction work for building a Jesuit church was taken up.[citation needed] The Jesuits also founded the Jesuit College, which was the first high school in Grudziądz.[8]

 
Grudziądz Castle in the 18th century

The town proper was surrounded by town walls, except on the side of river Vistula, where instead of walls there stood huge massive grain silos, from where grain could be transported through wooden pipes to the embankment of the river.[9]

Prussian Partition of Poland edit

 
19th century view of the Klimek Tower, the last remaining part of the Grudziądz Castle, after its destruction by the Prussian authorities

Following the First Partition of Poland declared on August 5, 1772, the city was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1773, it had a population of only 2,172 persons.[citation needed] In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it was part of the area affected by the Partitions of Poland.[10] To stimulate municipal trade, Frederick the Great brought in 44 colonist families. Grain trade flourished. Among the most successful grain traders were the Schönborn family.[11] In 1776, a decision was made to build a fortress in the town. Between 1796 and 1804, by decision of the King of Prussia, the Grudziądz Castle was demolished. During the Napoleonic invasion in Prussia in 1806–1807, the fortress was successfully defended by General of Infantry Wilhelm René de l'Homme de Courbière against attacks by French troops.[12]

In 1871, Graudenz became part of the unified German Empire. Administratively it belonged to the administrative district of Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder in the Province of West Prussia. With the improvement of the railway network in Germany, Graudenz transiently lost its meaning as an important trading place for grain. In 1878, the railway line to Jabłonowo Pomorskie (then Germanized as Goßlershausen) opened. After the construction of a railroad bridge across the Vistula in 1878, a railway line to Laskowice (Laskowitz) opened. Graudenz became a rapidly growing industrialized city. In 1883 also the Thorn (Toruń)-Graudenz-Marienburg (Malbork) railway line went into operation.[citation needed]

In 1899, the Chamber of Commerce was established in Graudenz. The Imperial German Navy named a light cruiser class and its lead ship, the SMS Graudenz, after the city. The newspaper Der Gesellige, founded by book seller Rothe in 1826, belonged up to the end of World War I to the most widely spread newspapers of east Germany.[citation needed] Around the turn to the 20th century, Graudenz had become an important cultural centre in east Germany with numerous schools, municipal archives and a museum.

The city was the site of a military prison for Polish activists. In 1832, also 249 Polish insurgents the November Uprising were imprisoned by the Prussians in the local fortress and subjected to forced labour, malnutrition, beatings and insults.[13] Released prisoners who left Europe formed the Gromada Grudziądz in Portsmouth, England in 1835 as part of the Great Emigration movement.[14]

Germanisation of the Poles in the Prussian Partition edit

Frederick had nourished a particular contempt for the Polish state and people. Germanisation was enforced to assimilate residents.[15][16] He brought in German and Frisian workers and peasants, who in his opinion, were more suitable for building up his new civilization.[17] Frederick settled around 300,000 colonists in the eastern provinces of Prussia. Using state funds for colonization, German craftsmen were placed in all local Polish cities.[18] A second colonization wave of ethnic Germans was pursued by Prussia after 1832.[19] Laws were passed aimed at Germanisation of the Polish inhabited areas and 154,000 colonists were settled by the Prussian Settlement Commission before World War I. Professor Martin Kitchen writes that in areas where the Polish population lived alongside Germans a virtual apartheid existed, with bans on the Polish language and religious discrimination, besides attempts to colonize the areas with Germans.[20]

Approximately 16,850 Poles and about 26,000 Germans lived in the district of Graudenz.[21] To resist Germanisation,[22] Polish activists started to publish the newspaper "Gazeta Grudziądzka" in 1894. It advocated the social and economic emancipation of rural society and opposed Germanization – publishing articles critical of Germany. German attempts to repress its editor Wiktor Kulerski only helped to increase its circulation.[23] From 1898 to 1901, a secret society of Polish students seeking to restore Polish independence operated in the city, but the activists were tried by German courts in 1901, frustrating their efforts.[24]

In Graudenz, German soldiers were stationed in the local fortress as part of the Germanization measures, and the authorities placed soldiers with the most chauvinistic attitude towards the Poles there.[25] The German government brought in more stationed military, merchants and state officials to influence population figures.[26] In the 1910 census 84% of the population of the town and 58% of the county was recorded as German.[27]

 
View of the city between 1914 and 1918

Census figures published by the German Empire have been criticised as unreliable. Historians believe they have a high degree of falsification; formal pressure on census takers (predominantly school-teachers) was possible, and a new bilingual category was created to further complicate the results, as bilingual people (that is those who could speak both German and Polish) were classified as Germans.[28] Some analysts have asserted that all people registering as bilingual were classified as Germans.[29] The Polish population in this heavily Germanised city has been officially estimated at around 12–15% during this period.

The Polish population numbers rose steadily before the First World War.[30][31] In the German election of 1912, the National Liberal Party of Germany received 53% of all votes, whilst Polish candidates won 23% of votes. In 1912, Wiktor Kulerski founded the Polish Catholic Peasant Party in the city, which aimed at protecting the local Polish population[32]

In 1913, the Polish Gazeta Grudziądzka reached a circulation of 128,000, making it the third largest Polish newspaper in the world.[23]

Interwar Poland edit

On 23 January 1920, the regulations of the Treaty of Versailles became effective, the city was reincorporated under its Polish name Grudziądz into the reborn Polish state (Second Polish Republic), although a majority of its inhabitants were German. At that time Józef Włodek, the newly appointed Polish mayor, described his impression of the town as "modern but unfortunately completely German"[33]

 
Townhouses on the Market Square

Between 1926 and 1934 the number of Germans (34,194 in 1910) rose from 3,542 to 3,875.[34] Some Polish authors emphasize a wider emigration pattern motivated chiefly by economic conditions and the unwillingness of the German minority to live in the Polish state.[35]

The German author Christian Raitz von Frentz writes that after the First World War ended, the Polish government tried to reverse the systematic Germanization of the past decades[36]

Prejudices, stereotypes and conflicts dating back to German harsh rule and discrimination of Poles influenced Polish policies towards minorities in the new independent Polish state.[37]

The Polish authorities, supported by the public (e.g. the "explicitly anti-German" Związek Obrony Kresów Zachodnich), initiated a number of measures to further Polonization.[38] The local press was also hostile towards the Germans.

 
Cityscape of Grudziądz in 1928

Fearful of a re-Germanization of the city, the Polish paper "Słowo Pomorskie" (23.19.1923) criticized the authorities of Grudziądz for tolerating the local German amateur theatre "Deutsche Bühne". The theatre was funded by money from Berlin.[39] Created before the war, its actors were mostly German officers stationed with the local garrison[40] The mayor responded by pointing out that the theatre was being monitored because of suspected "anti-state activities". According to Kotowski, this episode indicates that even the most minor activities of the German minority were closely scrutinized by the Polish authorities beginning with the earliest phase of Polish policy towards the German minority.[41] The German theatre was re-opened by the Nazis in 1943,[42] while the last director of the Polish theatre in the city in the years 1922–24 was murdered by them.[43]

In the interbellum, Grudziądz served as an important centre of culture and education with one of the biggest Polish military garrisons and several military schools located both in and around the city. A large economic potential and the existence of important institutions like the Pomeranian Tax Office and the Pomeranian Chamber of Industry and Trade, helped Grudziądz become the economic capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship in the interwar period. Grudziądz's economic potential was featured at the First Pomeranian Exhibition of Agriculture and Industry in 1925, officially opened by Stanisław Wojciechowski, President of the Second Polish Republic.

 
The famous Grudziądz Granaries

The 64th and 65th Infantry Regiments and the 16th Light Artillery Regiment of the Polish Army were stationed in Grudziądz during the 19 years of the inter-war period. They were part of the 16th Infantry Division, which had its headquarters in the city, as did the cavalry's famous 18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment. The Grudziądz Centre of Cavalry Training educated many notable army commanders, including future Polish resistance hero Witold Pilecki. Military education in Grudziądz was also provided by the Centre of the Gendarmerie, the Air School of Shooting and Bombarding, and the N.C.O. Professional School, which offered courses for infantry reserve officer cadets.

In 1920 a German-language school was founded.[44] In 1931 the Polish government decreed a reduction in the number of German classes in the school and requested lists of Catholic children and those pupils with Polish-sounding names which they viewed as victims of Germanization, from the German school. Although the list was not prepared, some of the children were transferred, which led to a school-strike.[45] The German school followed ideas and customs as those in Germany.[46] It was headed by a Nazi sympathiser Hilgendorf who praised Nazi ideology[47] The Polish authorities were alarmed when a notebook of one female student was discovered by them, which contained the Nazi party anthem, the Horst Wessel Lied and revisionistic text. The discovery caused outrage and calls to dismiss Hilgendorf due to his irredentist beliefs[48] In November 1933 two German craftsmen were killed by a Polish mob during a local election campaign.[44]

World War II edit

 
German minority in Grudziądz welcomes invading Nazi forces.

On 3 September 1939 units from the Wehrmacht entered the town after the Battle of Grudziądz and then occupied it. From 26 October 1939 to 1945 the city was part of the administrative district of Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder in the new province of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia.

Nazi atrocities edit

Following the German invasion, the Einsatzkommando 16 and Einsatzgruppen IV and V entered the city to commit crimes against the population.[49] They also carried out mass searches of Polish courthouses, organizations, police stations, etc., and seized large amounts of grain, textiles, coffee, equipment, and even homing pigeons.[49] On 7 September, 25 Polish citizens were detained as hostages[50] – priests, teachers and other members that enjoyed the respect of local society. They were threatened with execution if any harm came to the ethnic Germans from the city who were detained and held by the Polish authorities during the invasion of Poland. After their initial release on the return of the members of the German minority, they were re-arrested and most of them were shot.[51] On 9 September a further 85 Poles were imprisoned by the Germans.[50] The German authorities destroyed the city's monuments to Polish independence,[52] and banned Polish priests from speaking Polish during church masses.[53]

On 4 September, the Einsatzgruppe V demanded a list of names of all members of the 600-strong Jewish community within 14 hours, as well as a list of all their possessions. They were also fined 20,000 zlotych[54]

On 6 September, the whole city was covered with posters demanding that Jews and "mixed races" of category I and IInd degree (so-called Mischlinge, i.e. persons of mixed race) gather at the headquarters of the Einsatzgruppe V (established in the local school). Around 100 people responded to the demand and were immediately arrested and robbed. After this they were transported to an unknown destination and disappeared – it is believed that they were most likely executed by the Germans in the Mniszek-Grupa forests.[55][56]

On 19 October, the city was visited by the NSDAP Gauleiter (regional chief) Albert Forster. In a public speech to the Volksdeutsche, he declared that the area was to become "one hundred percent" German, and that Poles "have nothing to do here, and should be evicted"[57]

Grudziądz was the location of the German concentration camp Graudenz, a subcamp of Stutthof concentration camp.

Selbstschutz participation in mass murder edit
 
Monument to Poles murdered by the German minority organisation Selbstschutz near Książe Góry

Alongside the military and Einsatzgruppen administration, the first structures of Selbstschutz were established – a paramilitary formation of members of the German minority in the region. The head of Selbstschutz in Grudziądz was Doctor Joachim Gramse.[58][59] In October 1939, Selbstschutz created an internment camp for Poles seeking to restore Polish independence, whose commandant was a local German Kurt Gotze.[59]

Teachers, officials, social workers, doctors, merchants, members of patriotic organisations, lawyers, policemen, farmers and 150 Polish priests were held in this camp.[60] There were also around 200 Polish boys, students of local schools, who were soon deported to forced labour in Germany.[60] It is estimated that around 4,000 to 5,000 people went through the camp.[60] Other arrested Poles were held in the cellars of the Grudziądz Fortress.[58] The local Germans who ran the camp established their own "court" which decided the fate of the prisoners. The "court" comprised: Kurt Gotze, Helmut Domke, Horst Kriedte, Hans Abromeit (owner of a drugstore), Paul Neuman (barber).[61] Based on their decisions, some of the prisoners were sent to concentration camps, 300 were murdered en masse; only a few were released.[60][62] Those sentenced to death were mostly executed through shooting by the Selbstschutz in Księże Góry near Grudziądz; in October and November 1939 several hundred people were murdered there and their bodies buried in five mass graves.[63] The victims were usually shot at the edges of already dug out graves.[64]

Further executions were carried out in desolate areas of Grudziądz: on 11 November 1939 near Grudziądz Fortress, the Selbstschutz executed ten Polish teachers, four Polish priests and four women.[65] Additionally, 37 people were murdered in Grudziądz city park.[63] On 29 October 1939 a unit of Selbstschutz mass-murdered ten Polish hostages as revenge for posters that had appeared in the city calling for resistance against Nazi occupation.[61]

World War II aftermath edit

As the result of heavy fighting in 1945, over 60% of the city was destroyed. Soviet Major Lev Kopelev participated in those battles and covered the final surrender of the German garrison in his book "To Be Preserved Forever". He describes the joint psychological warfare in March 1945 by the Red Army and members of the NKFD. As the war ended, the German population of the city fled or was expelled to Germany in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement.[44] The city became home to Poles who had emigrated from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union east of the Curzon line, where they had been asked by the Soviet authorities to either accept incorporation into the U.S.S.R. or to leave what had been their former homeland.

Population edit

In 2018, it was populated by 95,045 inhabitants.[citation needed]

Education edit

 
Grudziądz Technical High School and astronomical observatory
  • Nicolaus Copernicus University
  • Grudziądzka Szkoła Wyższa

Sport edit

Grudziądz has two professional sports teams. The largest following has the popular speedway team GKM Grudziądz, who race at the Grudziądz Speedway Stadium and compete in the Ekstraliga (Poland's top division), whereas the local football team Olimpia Grudziądz has a slightly more modest following, playing in the lower leagues (as of 2022). GKS Olimpia Grudziądz is also a multi-sports club with athletics and judo sections.[66]

Notable people edit

Twin towns – sister cities edit

Grudziądz is twinned with:

italicized that this city is suspended due to Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

Sights edit

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grudziądz, ˈɡrud, ʑɔnt, latin, graudentum, graudentium, german, graudenz, city, northern, poland, with, inhabitants, 2021, located, vistula, river, lies, within, kuyavian, pomeranian, voivodeship, fourth, largest, city, province, town, 14th, century, granaries. Grudziadz ˈɡrud ʑɔnt s Latin Graudentum Graudentium German Graudenz is a city in northern Poland with 92 552 inhabitants 2021 1 Located on the Vistula River it lies within the Kuyavian Pomeranian Voivodeship and is the fourth largest city in its province The Old Town of Grudziadz and 14th century granaries were declared National Historic Monuments of Poland GrudziadzFrom top left to right City panorama and the Grudziadz GranariesMarket SquareTown HallWater GateFormer Benedictine monasteryFlagCoat of armsMotto s Grudziadz Miasto Otwarte Grudziadz Open city GrudziadzShow map of Kuyavian Pomeranian VoivodeshipGrudziadzShow map of PolandCoordinates 53 29 15 N 18 45 18 E 53 48750 N 18 75500 E 53 48750 18 75500CountryPolandVoivodeshipKuyavian Pomeranian VoivodeshipCountycity countyFirst mentioned11 April 1065Town rights18 June 1291Government MayorMaciej GlamowskiArea Total57 76 km2 22 30 sq mi Elevation50 m 160 ft Population 31 December 2021 Total92 552 1 40th Time zoneUTC 1 CET Summer DST UTC 2 CEST Postal code86 300 to 86 311Area code 48 056Car platesCGHighwaysWebsitehttp www grudziadz pl Contents 1 Geographical location 2 History 2 1 Early medieval Poland 2 2 Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights 2 3 Kingdom of Poland 2 4 Prussian Partition of Poland 2 4 1 Germanisation of the Poles in the Prussian Partition 2 5 Interwar Poland 2 6 World War II 2 6 1 Nazi atrocities 2 6 1 1 Selbstschutz participation in mass murder 2 6 2 World War II aftermath 3 Population 4 Education 5 Sport 6 Notable people 7 Twin towns sister cities 8 Sights 9 References 10 External linksGeographical location editGrudziadz is located close to the east shore of the river Vistula 2 approximately 22 km 14 mi north east of Swiecie 93 km 58 mi south of Gdansk and 170 km 106 mi south west of Kaliningrad It is located in Chelmno Land History editEarly medieval Poland edit Grudziadz was founded by the Duke of Poland Boleslaw I the Brave 3 of the Piast dynasty Initially Grudziadz was a defensive stronghold known as a gord The fortress and tower were built to protect the Poles from attacks by the Baltic Prussians 4 Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights edit The settlement was re fortified again from 1234 by the Teutonic Order The erection of the castle with the help of stone as building material was begun around the middle of the 13th century Under the protection of the castle the settlement gradually began to develop into a town In 1277 both the castle and the town were besieged heavily by the Yotvingians citation needed The settlement adopted Kulm law in 1291 while under the rule of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights 4 The oldest building parts of the Catholic St Nicholas Church stem from the end of the 13th century The Holy Spirit Church which apparently was founded during the 13th century is mentioned together with the town s hospital for the first time in 1345 citation needed Other documents reveal that in the 14th century the town already had a well developed infrastructure A document of 1380 as an example refers to the construction of an aqueduct a fountain and a town hall cellar citation needed During the era of the State of the Teutonic Knights Graudenz had become a distinguished trade center in particular for textiles and agricultural products including grain citation needed Around 1454 Graudenz had already reached about the same level of economic development as other towns in the western part of the State of the Teutonic Order such as Danzig Gdansk Elbing Elblag Thorn Torun Marienburg Malbork Kulm Chelmno Konitz Chojnice Neumark Nowe Miasto Lubawskie and Preussisch Stargard Starogard Gdanski citation needed Kingdom of Poland edit nbsp The Water Gate and the city walls of Grudziadz 14th 15th centuryIn 1440 the city co founded the Prussian Confederation which opposed the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights At the beginning of the Thirteen Years War 1454 66 the citizens forced the Teutonic Order to hand over the castle The confederation asked the King of Poland Casimir IV Jagiellon to join Poland The King agreed and signed the act of incorporation in Krakow in March 1454 5 Although there was support the Knights inside the city walls citation needed during the entirety of the war both the city and the castle remained under Polish control The 1466 peace treaty confirmed the re incorporation of Grudziadz to Poland 6 Between 1454 and 1772 the city was part of the Polish Chelmno Voivodeship which itself was since 1466 part of the Polish province of Royal Prussia soon included in the larger Greater Poland Province The Grudziadz Castle was seat of the local starostas royal administrative officials It was often visited by Polish kings nbsp Siege of Grudziadz by the Swedes in 1655After the great depression of the Thirteen Years War new economical growth in the town was slow before the middle of the 16th century Economic progress was hampered by the religious struggles and by the Polish Swedish wars throughout the 17th century citation needed At the end of 1655 during the Swedish Deluge the city and its castle were captured by the Swedes and occupied for four years In 1659 the Swedes had been besieged for several days and retreated During their departure part of the town was destroyed by fire citation needed In 1522 Nicolaus Copernicus who aside from his astronomical work was also an economist presented his treatise Monetae cudendae ratio in Grudziadz In it he postulated the principle that bad money drives out good which became known as the Gresham s law or the Gresham Copernicus law This work included an early version of the quantity theory of money a key concept in economics 7 nbsp Grudziadz Town Hall former Jesuit college buildingFollowing Protestant Reformation in 1569 the local Protestants were given access to the Holy Spirit Church in 1572 Catholicism seemed to have vanished almost entirely in the town citation needed In 1597 King Sigismund III Vasa gave order that the Protestants had to return all churches taken over by them in the past to the Catholics including all accessories The Protestants remained in possession solely of St George s Church until in 1618 when the base of the building was washed away by the Vistula River and the church was torn down For a while they used once more the vacant Holy Spoirit Church until in 1624 this building together with the hospital had to be handed over to nuns of the Order of Saint Benedict for the purpose of founding an affiliated institution citation needed Since 1622 Jesuits from Torun had a station in Grudziadz which in 1640 was already so strong that it was able to form a residence in Grudziadz despite of objections from the side of the magistrate of the town citation needed In 1648 construction work for building a Jesuit church was taken up citation needed The Jesuits also founded the Jesuit College which was the first high school in Grudziadz 8 nbsp Grudziadz Castle in the 18th centuryThe town proper was surrounded by town walls except on the side of river Vistula where instead of walls there stood huge massive grain silos from where grain could be transported through wooden pipes to the embankment of the river 9 Prussian Partition of Poland edit nbsp 19th century view of the Klimek Tower the last remaining part of the Grudziadz Castle after its destruction by the Prussian authoritiesFollowing the First Partition of Poland declared on August 5 1772 the city was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia In 1773 it had a population of only 2 172 persons citation needed In the late 18th and early 19th centuries it was part of the area affected by the Partitions of Poland 10 To stimulate municipal trade Frederick the Great brought in 44 colonist families Grain trade flourished Among the most successful grain traders were the Schonborn family 11 In 1776 a decision was made to build a fortress in the town Between 1796 and 1804 by decision of the King of Prussia the Grudziadz Castle was demolished During the Napoleonic invasion in Prussia in 1806 1807 the fortress was successfully defended by General of Infantry Wilhelm Rene de l Homme de Courbiere against attacks by French troops 12 In 1871 Graudenz became part of the unified German Empire Administratively it belonged to the administrative district of Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder in the Province of West Prussia With the improvement of the railway network in Germany Graudenz transiently lost its meaning as an important trading place for grain In 1878 the railway line to Jablonowo Pomorskie then Germanized as Gosslershausen opened After the construction of a railroad bridge across the Vistula in 1878 a railway line to Laskowice Laskowitz opened Graudenz became a rapidly growing industrialized city In 1883 also the Thorn Torun Graudenz Marienburg Malbork railway line went into operation citation needed In 1899 the Chamber of Commerce was established in Graudenz The Imperial German Navy named a light cruiser class and its lead ship the SMS Graudenz after the city The newspaper Der Gesellige founded by book seller Rothe in 1826 belonged up to the end of World War I to the most widely spread newspapers of east Germany citation needed Around the turn to the 20th century Graudenz had become an important cultural centre in east Germany with numerous schools municipal archives and a museum The city was the site of a military prison for Polish activists In 1832 also 249 Polish insurgents the November Uprising were imprisoned by the Prussians in the local fortress and subjected to forced labour malnutrition beatings and insults 13 Released prisoners who left Europe formed the Gromada Grudziadz in Portsmouth England in 1835 as part of the Great Emigration movement 14 Germanisation of the Poles in the Prussian Partition edit Frederick had nourished a particular contempt for the Polish state and people Germanisation was enforced to assimilate residents 15 16 He brought in German and Frisian workers and peasants who in his opinion were more suitable for building up his new civilization 17 Frederick settled around 300 000 colonists in the eastern provinces of Prussia Using state funds for colonization German craftsmen were placed in all local Polish cities 18 A second colonization wave of ethnic Germans was pursued by Prussia after 1832 19 Laws were passed aimed at Germanisation of the Polish inhabited areas and 154 000 colonists were settled by the Prussian Settlement Commission before World War I Professor Martin Kitchen writes that in areas where the Polish population lived alongside Germans a virtual apartheid existed with bans on the Polish language and religious discrimination besides attempts to colonize the areas with Germans 20 Approximately 16 850 Poles and about 26 000 Germans lived in the district of Graudenz 21 To resist Germanisation 22 Polish activists started to publish the newspaper Gazeta Grudziadzka in 1894 It advocated the social and economic emancipation of rural society and opposed Germanization publishing articles critical of Germany German attempts to repress its editor Wiktor Kulerski only helped to increase its circulation 23 From 1898 to 1901 a secret society of Polish students seeking to restore Polish independence operated in the city but the activists were tried by German courts in 1901 frustrating their efforts 24 In Graudenz German soldiers were stationed in the local fortress as part of the Germanization measures and the authorities placed soldiers with the most chauvinistic attitude towards the Poles there 25 The German government brought in more stationed military merchants and state officials to influence population figures 26 In the 1910 census 84 of the population of the town and 58 of the county was recorded as German 27 nbsp View of the city between 1914 and 1918Census figures published by the German Empire have been criticised as unreliable Historians believe they have a high degree of falsification formal pressure on census takers predominantly school teachers was possible and a new bilingual category was created to further complicate the results as bilingual people that is those who could speak both German and Polish were classified as Germans 28 Some analysts have asserted that all people registering as bilingual were classified as Germans 29 The Polish population in this heavily Germanised city has been officially estimated at around 12 15 during this period The Polish population numbers rose steadily before the First World War 30 31 In the German election of 1912 the National Liberal Party of Germany received 53 of all votes whilst Polish candidates won 23 of votes In 1912 Wiktor Kulerski founded the Polish Catholic Peasant Party in the city which aimed at protecting the local Polish population 32 In 1913 the Polish Gazeta Grudziadzka reached a circulation of 128 000 making it the third largest Polish newspaper in the world 23 Interwar Poland edit On 23 January 1920 the regulations of the Treaty of Versailles became effective the city was reincorporated under its Polish name Grudziadz into the reborn Polish state Second Polish Republic although a majority of its inhabitants were German At that time Jozef Wlodek the newly appointed Polish mayor described his impression of the town as modern but unfortunately completely German 33 nbsp Townhouses on the Market SquareBetween 1926 and 1934 the number of Germans 34 194 in 1910 rose from 3 542 to 3 875 34 Some Polish authors emphasize a wider emigration pattern motivated chiefly by economic conditions and the unwillingness of the German minority to live in the Polish state 35 The German author Christian Raitz von Frentz writes that after the First World War ended the Polish government tried to reverse the systematic Germanization of the past decades 36 Prejudices stereotypes and conflicts dating back to German harsh rule and discrimination of Poles influenced Polish policies towards minorities in the new independent Polish state 37 The Polish authorities supported by the public e g the explicitly anti German Zwiazek Obrony Kresow Zachodnich initiated a number of measures to further Polonization 38 The local press was also hostile towards the Germans nbsp Cityscape of Grudziadz in 1928Fearful of a re Germanization of the city the Polish paper Slowo Pomorskie 23 19 1923 criticized the authorities of Grudziadz for tolerating the local German amateur theatre Deutsche Buhne The theatre was funded by money from Berlin 39 Created before the war its actors were mostly German officers stationed with the local garrison 40 The mayor responded by pointing out that the theatre was being monitored because of suspected anti state activities According to Kotowski this episode indicates that even the most minor activities of the German minority were closely scrutinized by the Polish authorities beginning with the earliest phase of Polish policy towards the German minority 41 The German theatre was re opened by the Nazis in 1943 42 while the last director of the Polish theatre in the city in the years 1922 24 was murdered by them 43 In the interbellum Grudziadz served as an important centre of culture and education with one of the biggest Polish military garrisons and several military schools located both in and around the city A large economic potential and the existence of important institutions like the Pomeranian Tax Office and the Pomeranian Chamber of Industry and Trade helped Grudziadz become the economic capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship in the interwar period Grudziadz s economic potential was featured at the First Pomeranian Exhibition of Agriculture and Industry in 1925 officially opened by Stanislaw Wojciechowski President of the Second Polish Republic nbsp The famous Grudziadz GranariesThe 64th and 65th Infantry Regiments and the 16th Light Artillery Regiment of the Polish Army were stationed in Grudziadz during the 19 years of the inter war period They were part of the 16th Infantry Division which had its headquarters in the city as did the cavalry s famous 18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment The Grudziadz Centre of Cavalry Training educated many notable army commanders including future Polish resistance hero Witold Pilecki Military education in Grudziadz was also provided by the Centre of the Gendarmerie the Air School of Shooting and Bombarding and the N C O Professional School which offered courses for infantry reserve officer cadets In 1920 a German language school was founded 44 In 1931 the Polish government decreed a reduction in the number of German classes in the school and requested lists of Catholic children and those pupils with Polish sounding names which they viewed as victims of Germanization from the German school Although the list was not prepared some of the children were transferred which led to a school strike 45 The German school followed ideas and customs as those in Germany 46 It was headed by a Nazi sympathiser Hilgendorf who praised Nazi ideology 47 The Polish authorities were alarmed when a notebook of one female student was discovered by them which contained the Nazi party anthem the Horst Wessel Lied and revisionistic text The discovery caused outrage and calls to dismiss Hilgendorf due to his irredentist beliefs 48 In November 1933 two German craftsmen were killed by a Polish mob during a local election campaign 44 World War II edit nbsp German minority in Grudziadz welcomes invading Nazi forces On 3 September 1939 units from the Wehrmacht entered the town after the Battle of Grudziadz and then occupied it From 26 October 1939 to 1945 the city was part of the administrative district of Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder in the new province of Reichsgau Danzig West Prussia Nazi atrocities edit Further information Intelligenzaktion Pommern Following the German invasion the Einsatzkommando 16 and Einsatzgruppen IV and V entered the city to commit crimes against the population 49 They also carried out mass searches of Polish courthouses organizations police stations etc and seized large amounts of grain textiles coffee equipment and even homing pigeons 49 On 7 September 25 Polish citizens were detained as hostages 50 priests teachers and other members that enjoyed the respect of local society They were threatened with execution if any harm came to the ethnic Germans from the city who were detained and held by the Polish authorities during the invasion of Poland After their initial release on the return of the members of the German minority they were re arrested and most of them were shot 51 On 9 September a further 85 Poles were imprisoned by the Germans 50 The German authorities destroyed the city s monuments to Polish independence 52 and banned Polish priests from speaking Polish during church masses 53 On 4 September the Einsatzgruppe V demanded a list of names of all members of the 600 strong Jewish community within 14 hours as well as a list of all their possessions They were also fined 20 000 zlotych 54 On 6 September the whole city was covered with posters demanding that Jews and mixed races of category I and IInd degree so called Mischlinge i e persons of mixed race gather at the headquarters of the Einsatzgruppe V established in the local school Around 100 people responded to the demand and were immediately arrested and robbed After this they were transported to an unknown destination and disappeared it is believed that they were most likely executed by the Germans in the Mniszek Grupa forests 55 56 On 19 October the city was visited by the NSDAP Gauleiter regional chief Albert Forster In a public speech to the Volksdeutsche he declared that the area was to become one hundred percent German and that Poles have nothing to do here and should be evicted 57 Grudziadz was the location of the German concentration camp Graudenz a subcamp of Stutthof concentration camp Selbstschutz participation in mass murder edit nbsp Monument to Poles murdered by the German minority organisation Selbstschutz near Ksiaze GoryAlongside the military and Einsatzgruppen administration the first structures of Selbstschutz were established a paramilitary formation of members of the German minority in the region The head of Selbstschutz in Grudziadz was Doctor Joachim Gramse 58 59 In October 1939 Selbstschutz created an internment camp for Poles seeking to restore Polish independence whose commandant was a local German Kurt Gotze 59 Teachers officials social workers doctors merchants members of patriotic organisations lawyers policemen farmers and 150 Polish priests were held in this camp 60 There were also around 200 Polish boys students of local schools who were soon deported to forced labour in Germany 60 It is estimated that around 4 000 to 5 000 people went through the camp 60 Other arrested Poles were held in the cellars of the Grudziadz Fortress 58 The local Germans who ran the camp established their own court which decided the fate of the prisoners The court comprised Kurt Gotze Helmut Domke Horst Kriedte Hans Abromeit owner of a drugstore Paul Neuman barber 61 Based on their decisions some of the prisoners were sent to concentration camps 300 were murdered en masse only a few were released 60 62 Those sentenced to death were mostly executed through shooting by the Selbstschutz in Ksieze Gory near Grudziadz in October and November 1939 several hundred people were murdered there and their bodies buried in five mass graves 63 The victims were usually shot at the edges of already dug out graves 64 Further executions were carried out in desolate areas of Grudziadz on 11 November 1939 near Grudziadz Fortress the Selbstschutz executed ten Polish teachers four Polish priests and four women 65 Additionally 37 people were murdered in Grudziadz city park 63 On 29 October 1939 a unit of Selbstschutz mass murdered ten Polish hostages as revenge for posters that had appeared in the city calling for resistance against Nazi occupation 61 World War II aftermath edit As the result of heavy fighting in 1945 over 60 of the city was destroyed Soviet Major Lev Kopelev participated in those battles and covered the final surrender of the German garrison in his book To Be Preserved Forever He describes the joint psychological warfare in March 1945 by the Red Army and members of the NKFD As the war ended the German population of the city fled or was expelled to Germany in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement 44 The city became home to Poles who had emigrated from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union east of the Curzon line where they had been asked by the Soviet authorities to either accept incorporation into the U S S R or to leave what had been their former homeland Population editIn 2018 it was populated by 95 045 inhabitants citation needed Education edit nbsp Grudziadz Technical High School and astronomical observatoryNicolaus Copernicus University Grudziadzka Szkola WyzszaSport editGrudziadz has two professional sports teams The largest following has the popular speedway team GKM Grudziadz who race at the Grudziadz Speedway Stadium and compete in the Ekstraliga Poland s top division whereas the local football team Olimpia Grudziadz has a slightly more modest following playing in the lower leagues as of 2022 GKS Olimpia Grudziadz is also a multi sports club with athletics and judo sections 66 Notable people editSee also Category People from Grudziadz Piotr of Grudziadz c 1400 1480 composer Johann Stobaus 1580 1646 composer Alfred Wohl 1863 1946 German chemist Alexander Pohlmann 1865 1952 politician Max Winkler 1875 1961 Mayor of Graudenz Ernst Hardt 1876 1947 writer Waldemar Kophamel 1880 1934 U boat commander Leo White 1882 1948 stage performer Alfons Hoffmann 1895 1963 Polish engineer Boleslaw Orlinski 1899 1992 Polish aviator and test pilot Kurt Weyher 1901 1991 Admiral Erich Witte 1911 2008 stage actor operatic tenor and opera director Antoni Czortek 1915 2003 Polish boxing champion Henryk Sawistowski 1925 1984 dean of City and Guilds College of London Institute Waldemar Baszanowski 1935 2011 Olympic champion weightlifter Stefania Toczyska born 1943 mezzo soprano Bronislaw Malinowski 1951 1981 Olympic Champion in the 3000m steeplechase race 1980 Summer Olympics Mateusz Scriptwelder Sokalszczuk born 1985 flash game developer author of Waterworks a game that takes place in the city Krzysztof Buczkowski born 1986 motorcycle speedway riderTwin towns sister cities editSee also List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland Grudziadz is twinned with nbsp Chernyakhovsk Russia nbsp Falun Sweden nbsp Gutersloh Germany nbsp Nanning Chinaitalicized that this city is suspended due to Russian Invasion of Ukraine Sights edit nbsp Szultz Port at present Grudziadz Marina nbsp Memorial to Polish soldiers main market square nbsp St Mary s Church nbsp Church of St Francis Xavier nbsp Sobieski High School nbsp St Nicholas Basilica Bazylika sw Mikolaja nbsp The Piotr Janowski City Park Park Miejski im Piotra Janowskiego nbsp Main Post Office nbsp Klimek Tower Wieza Klimek nbsp Witold Pilecki monument nbsp Uhlan and Girl Monument nbsp The Bronislaw Malinowski Bridge nbsp After factory water tower nbsp War cemeteryReferences edit a b Local Data Bank Statistics Poland Retrieved 9 August 2022 Data for territorial unit 0462000 Grudziadz Poland Britannica www britannica com Retrieved 5 April 2023 Wielka encyklopedia polski Tom 1 Wojciech Slowakiewicz Jacek Slowinski Piotr Turkot page 270 Fogra 2000 a b Grudziadz Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Archived from the original on 22 March 2014 Retrieved 8 May 2013 Gorski Karol 1949 Zwiazek Pruski i poddanie sie Prus Polsce zbior tekstow zrodlowych in Polish Poznan Instytut Zachodni p 54 Gorski p 88 89 206 207 Angus Armitage The World of Copernicus 1951 p 91 Roman Pawlak Zabytkowe ratusze Warsaw MUZA SA 2003 p 68 69 Johann Friedrich Goldbeck Vollstandige Topographie des Konigreichs Preussen Teil II Marienwerder 1789 p 28 no 1 Partitions of Poland Facts Britannica www britannica com Retrieved 17 May 2022 Hans Jurgen 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