Dzialdowo

Dzialdowo is a town in north central Poland with 24,830 inhabitants the capital of Dzialdowo County. Situated within the Warmian Masurian Voivodeship Dzialdowo belonged previously to Ciechanow Voivodeship 1975 to 1998. The city is a prime railroad junction connecting the capital town of Warsaw with Gdansk and Olsztyn to the north. The first settlement in the place, referred to as Sosnowiec in Polish and Sassen in German, was set up by using the Old Prussians, an indigenous Baltic tribe. The Teutonic Knights conquered the vicinity and constructed a castle, a wing of which nonetheless stays.

The new settlement near the citadel founded with the aid of Mikolaj Karbowa and named Soldov became granted town privileges on 14 August 1344 through the Grand Master Ludolf Konig. The call Dzialdoff changed into first written on a 1409 map in the course of the Polish Lithuanian Teutonic War. Within the Duchy of Prussia the agreement transformed to Lutheranism all through the Protestant Reformation of the 16^th century, consistent with the selection of its Prince.