Exploring the World's Largest Castle in Malbork, Poland (Incredible 800 year-old fortress!) 🇵🇱

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50 km south of Gdansk, you'll find one of Europe's greatest treasures: the incredible Malbork Castle.
Despite the abhorrent smell of the nearby sugar factory, my tour through the world's largest castle was both an excellent introduction to the history of the Teutonic order in this region, and a great place to spend a morning wandering up its many staircases and corridors to witness some of the best-preserved (and best-restored) Medieval structures in Europe.
Admission to the castle (including audio guide) is a mere 47 Polish Zloty (around $13 USD or just over 10 Euros), making it one of Poland's most cost efficient attractions.
Malbork is the perfect day trip from Gdansk; to get here, it's a short 30 minute train ride from Gdansk Glowny Station, at a cost of $3 to $13 USD, depending on the speed and service.
Vlog Number 54 | Europe | #Poland #Gdansk #Malbork | Filmed October 2020
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@DrifterDave Год назад

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@themeangene 2 года назад

I'd love to visit this place and Poland in general. As an American I envy being able to drive an hour or so and seeing these majestic Medeival castles. I really feel like I was born in the wrong time lol. I see that online this is called the largest castle in the world. Does that strictly mean Medeival castle? I realize technically later periods similar structures were more commonly called palaces since they lacked the same fortifications.

@DrifterDave 2 года назад

I think it’s the largest ‘proper’ castle in the world - it’s a massive structure. I’m with you on envying Europeans’ ease of travel - it’s incredible that many of my European friends feel that an 8 hour drive between Germany and the south of France is an eternity - but that sort of drive is commonplace in North America. They don’t know how lucky they have it 😃

@mattzmuda 2 года назад

Not the Nazis commited destruction of the castle during WW2. Destruction was commited by Russians. Nazis fortified themselves against Russians in the castle.

@DrifterDave 2 года назад

Interesting - thanks for the clarification!

@DonRob96 Год назад

That's exactly how it is, Marienburg/Malbork has been in the heartland of East Prussia for centuries.

@bip5395 3 года назад

Probably tons of people told you this already but: Poland is not located in eastern Europe. It's central geographically. We are mixed culturally between western and eastern as well.

@DrifterDave 3 года назад

Hi Barbara! I mean no offence. These labels are controversial and have no agreed-upon definition (there are hundreds of website that label it central, and hundreds that label is eastern). In Canada, we are taught in school that Poland is in Eastern Europe (defined as the countries east of the former ‘iron curtain’) and also that Poland is the eastern border of the European Union). For this vlog, I use the United Nations geographical subregion definitions, for simplicity’s sake. The United Nations defines Poland as Eastern Europe, but I understand some Poles might disagree. No offence intended 🙏 unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/#geo-regions en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_subregion_map_UN_geoscheme.svg

@bip5395 3 года назад

@@DrifterDave I am not offended I just like proper descriptions regarding geography, especially from travellers who visited the region. Even in one of links provided by you there is a map where Poland is grouped in Central Europe. The UN by putting Poland in the 'eastern' group was motivated by statistics and not official classification. As in 2019 Poland economically joined group of developed countries we have nothing more in common with Eastern Europe (and 'iron curtine' was just 25 years of the country's 1000 years of history). We use middle european time. In the middle of country eastern european and western european tectonic zones meet. Main part of polish territory is located on Central European Plain. Culture was formed by western european influences. We use Latin alphabet, not cyrillic. Poland is classified by Huntington as western civilisation. Poland is part of NATO and EU. So as you can see in 2020 there are basically no links to Eastern Europe but slavic ethnicity (which by the way is shared with Czechs, Slovakians, Slovenians and Croatians who also are not 'eastern europeans') and border of course.

@DrifterDave 3 года назад

@@bip5395 Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this! You bring up some good points and they are definitely worth considering. As there’s no way for me to change the title of this series now 14 episodes in (which will also include Belarus & Ukraine, which makes sense ) without deleting each and every video and starting from scratch, I trust you’ll overlook this and trust me good intentions 🙏 I appreciate your perspective as a local viewer.

@yakeosicki8965 3 года назад

The castle was destroyed by the Soviets. The Germans defended themselves in the castle.

@DrifterDave 3 года назад

Thank you for the historical insight! 👍

@comdo831 3 года назад

It wasn't destroyed. It was damaged, so it had to go through some restoration after the war.

@DrifterDave 3 года назад

@@comdo831 Yes, it was only partially destroyed. At the end of the vlog you can see the old bricks against the restored bricks. It’s amazing that they were able to make it look as great as it does. The photos of the post-WWII destruction were horrific.

@mikezabo3134 2 года назад

In 1945 soviet troops destroyed Malbork Castle.

@DrifterDave 2 года назад

Yes, I saw the photos - it's had quite the history, but they've definitely restored it to its former glory. I enjoyed my visit!

@mikezabo3134 2 года назад

@@DrifterDave I grew up in Poland and never had been in Malbork.

@DrifterDave 2 года назад

You should visit!

@filipsudol9793 3 года назад

i live just 150 km from that castle but never been there 🙈

@DrifterDave 3 года назад

You should go! It's very impressive 😎

@guwilmy1513 3 года назад

Ja też Filip tak to jest jak mówił wojewódzki w reklamie Heleny cudze chwalicie swego nie znacie

@Technolifter 2 года назад

The amount of rebuild they have done since i was there 12 years ago is insane

@DrifterDave 2 года назад

Good to know! It is an incredible space 👍

@pedrojamalserrano4008 3 года назад

There is no such thing as protector of this valuable asset only European citizens could again manage this real estate property once again.

@DrifterDave 3 года назад

It’s a complicated issue, for sure - many opinions and perspectives.

@maxamillionese8519 Год назад

Muchas Gracias. It’s a beautiful Castillo love Castillos . Glad neither world wars destroyed them . Saludos from Tenochtitlan Mexico 🇲🇽.

@DrifterDave Год назад

De nada! Muchas Gracias por tu visitar mi canal. I hope my Spanish is OK! 😎

@pawewieczorkowski5089 Год назад

Największy ceglany zamek na świecie🏰.Tyle razy byłem w Malborku,a w tym zamku byłem tylko raz.

@DrifterDave Год назад

nadszedł czas, aby odwiedzić ponownie!

@pawewieczorkowski5089 Год назад

Po obejrzeniu tego filmu z pewnością się wybiorę.Ale myślę,że dopiero gdzieś wiosną.Pozdrawiam👍

@DrifterDave Год назад

@@pawewieczorkowski5089 Dzięki za obejrzeniu! 😎

@Pannan2959 2 года назад

I live in malbork and i can agree the smell is the sugar factory

@DrifterDave 2 года назад

Does it ever bother you, or are you used to it? I thought I was going crazy during my time there - it was a totally foreign smell to me that I was not familiar with!

@BC250 3 года назад

I regretted skipping out on visiting this place when I was staying in Sopot 😭

@DrifterDave 3 года назад

It’s well worth a visit! There is so much to see, you’d need a full day. The place is huge 😃

@barbarawissinger 3 года назад

Thank you. We have been so busy in Gdańsk that Malbork had to be postponed. We're planning on doing it as a daytrip from Warsaw.

@DrifterDave 3 года назад

Good plan! A fast train should get you there in just about 2-3 hours. I hope you get to visit!

@lagoonlane 2 года назад

Thanks brother ! Hope to visit the homeland this summer with the kids !

@DrifterDave 2 года назад

Have fun! I love Poland and can't wait to head back!

@mattzmuda 2 года назад

That smell is a smell of beatroots, because there is a sugar factory in Malbork 😅

@DrifterDave 2 года назад

Yes! Another commenter mentioned that shortly after my visit. It's a stinky town, but it's interesting! 😂

@LadyStrzygaInTheShade 2 года назад

Cool! I wish you a nice time 🤩 🔥👍

@DrifterDave 2 года назад

Thanks! You too!

@bartsimps5601 3 года назад

You forgot to mention the underfloor heating

@DrifterDave 3 года назад

True!

@NbyD Год назад

what the nazis destroyed the castle ? Seems unlikely.

@DrifterDave Год назад

What I was told is that the Nazis destroyed it so that it couldn't be used by the advancing Soviet army. But, I'm not quite sure if that's historically accurate. What's your take on it?

@NbyD Год назад

@@DrifterDave I have read Marienburg (Malbork castle) was defended by the German army against the Soviets. The latter shelled it with heavy artillery. This seems more plausible as the castle was seen by Germans as a symbol of their national identity at the time. What have you been told?

@DrifterDave Год назад

I was told that the Nazis destroyed the castle so that it could not be used by the advancing Soviet army. Thanks for sharing the alternate possibility!

@DonRob96 Год назад

@@DrifterDave NbyD is right, at the time of the German Empire the Goverment spent a lot of money to restore the Castle, because it was a big part of the East Prussian nationality.