See also:

• MARIENBURG (Polish, Malborg)

MARIENBURG (See also:

• POLISH

Polish, Malborg)  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West See also:

• PRUSSIA
• PRUSSIA (Ger. Preussen; Lat. Borussia)

Prussia, 30 M. by See also:

• RAIL

rail to the S.E. of See also:

• DANZIG, or DANTSIC (Polish Gdansk)

Danzig in a fertile See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain on the right See also:

• BANK

bank of the Negat, a channel of the See also:

• VISTULA (Ger. Weichsel, Polish Wisla)

Vistula, here spanned by a handsome railway See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge and by a bridge of boats . Pop . (19o5), 13,095 . See also:

• MARIENBURG (Polish, Malborg)

Marienburg contains large chemical See also:

• WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool-cleaning See also:

• WORKS

works and several other factories, carries on a considerable See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood, See also:

• LINEN

linen, feathers and brushes, and is the seat of important See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse and wool markets . Its educational institutions include a gymnasium and a See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant normal school . In the old See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market-See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, many of the houses in which are built with arcades, stands a See also:

• GOTHIC

Gothic town-See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

hall, dating from the end of the 14th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The town is also embellished with a See also:

• FINE

fine statue of See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick the See also:

• GREAT

Great, who added this See also:

• DISTRICT

district to Prussia, and a See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument commemorating the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war of 1870-71 . Marienburg is chiefly interesting from its having been for a century and a See also:

• HALF

half the See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of the See also:

• GRAND

grand masters of the See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order . The large See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle of the order here was originally founded in 1274 as the seat of a See also:

• SIMPLE

simple See also:

• COMMANDERY (through the Fr. commanderie, from med. Lat. commendaria, a trust or charge)

commandery against the See also:

• PAGAN
• PAGAN (Lat. paganus, of or belonging to a pagus, a canton, county district, village, commune)

pagan Prussians, but in 1309 the headquarters of the grand See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master were transferred hither from See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice, and the " Marienburger Schloss" soon became one of the largest and most strongly fortified buildings in Germany . On the decline of the order in the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 15th century, the castle passed into the hands of the Poles, by whom it was allowed to fall into neglect and decay . It came into the See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of Prussia in 1772, and was carefully restored at the beginning of the 19th century . This interesting and curious See also:

• BUILDING

building consists of three parts, the Alt- or Hochschloss, the Mittelschloss, and the Vorburg .

It is built of See also:

• BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick, in a See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar to the Baltic provinces, and is undoubtedly one of the most important See also:

• SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

secular buildings of the middle ages in Germany . Of the numerous monographs published in Germany on the castle of Marienburg, it will suffice to mention here See also:

• BUSCHING, ANTON FRIEDRICH (1724-1793)

Busching's Schloss der deutschen See also:

• RITTER, HEINRICH (1791-1869)
• RITTER, KARL (1779–1859)

Ritter zu Marienburg (See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, 1828) ; Voigt's Geschichte von Marienburg (See also:

• KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

Konigsberg, 1824) ; Bergau's Ordenshaupthaus Marienburg (Berlin, 1871); and Steinbrecht, Schloss Marienburg in Preussen (8th ed., Berlin, 1905) .