Grudziadz

Grudziadz is a city of around 96,042 population on the Vistula River in northern Poland. Situated within the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, the metropolis turned into in the Torun Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998. The settlement become re-fortified again from 1234 by means of the Teutonic Order; the erection of the fortress with the help of stone as constructing material changed into started with across the middle of the 13^th century.

Under the protection of the fortress the agreement gradually begun to increase to a city. In 1277 both "the citadel and the metropolis" have been besieged heavily by means of the Yotvingians. The settlement adopted Kulm law in 1291 even as under the rule of thumb of the monastic nation of the Teutonic Knights. The oldest constructing components of the Catholic St. Nicholas' Church stem from the cease of the 13^th century.

The Holy Spirit Church, which reputedly changed into founded already all through the 13^th century, is mentioned together with the town's sanatorium for the primary time in 1345. Also different files reveal that in the 14^th century the town had already a well-developed infrastructure. A document of 1380, for example, refers to the construction of an aqueduct, of a fountain and of the establishment of a metropolis-hall cellar.