Nidzica Castle

Nidzica Castle is a 14th-century brick Gothic Teutonic castle located in the town of Nidzica, Poland.

The construction of the castle was begun around 1370. The Pfleger of the Teutonic Knights made it his residence in 1409. On 12 July 1410, the undefended castle was captured by the Polish forces on their way into the interior of the State of the Teutonic Order. At the time of the Hunger War of 1414 the castle was put under siege by the Polish knights and taken after eight days on the 6th of July. In 1454 the castle was occupied by the Prussian Confederation and in February 1455 was taken by the Czech army led by Jan Kolda ze Zampachu, who had repulsed an attack by the forces of the Teutonic Knights on 28 April. In 1517 the inner ward was built up and reinforced.

In 1784 a fire consumed the inner ward. In 1812 the castle was devastated by Napoleon's French forces. The castle was rebuilt from 1828 to 1830 into a court and a prison. In 1945, during the Second World War, the Soviet army bombarded the castle. In the aftermath of the Potsdam Conference, the area was ceded to Poland; much of the castle remained in ruins until reconstruction between 1961 and 1965.

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Nidzica Castle ranks #3,331 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #114 of the 374 mapped in Poland. Founded 1370, it is older than 56% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 604 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 3,474 times in the last 60 days, more than 78% of the atlas. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 25 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Warmia and Masuria. It is stop 6 of 9 on the Teutonic castle road, Toruń to Malbork. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.

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