Kwidzyn

Kwidzyn is a city in northern Poland at the Liwa river in the Powisle area, with 40,008 inhabitants. It has been a part of the Pomeranian Voivodeship seeing that 1999, and became formerly inside the Elblag Voivodeship. It is the capital of Kwidzyn County. In 1233, the Teutonic Knights built the Burg Marienwerder and mounted the metropolis of Marienwerder the following year. In 1243, the Bishopric of Pomesania obtained each the metropolis and castle from the Teutonic Order as fiefs, and the settlement have become the seat of the Bishops of Pomesania inside Prussia.

The town changed into populated by way of artisans and traders, originating from cities in the northern components of the German empire. A Teutonic knight, Werner von Orseln, became murdered in Marienburg in 1330. He became a few of the first to be buried within the newly erected cathedral of the city. St. Dorothea of Montau lived in Marienwerder from 1391 until her demise in 1394; future pilgrims journeying her shrine would make a contribution to the flourishing financial system.