Exploring the World's Largest Castle | Malbork Castle, Poland (VLOG)

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Жыл бұрын

Come with me on my VLOG to explore inside Malbork Castle (Castle of the Teutonic Order), the world's largest castle by land area, located near Gdansk, in Poland. I will take you on a little tour to give you a guide on what is inside the World's Largest Castle.
The castle was originally built back in the 13th Century by a group of religious crusaders, the Teutonic Knights, and it has certainly seen its fair share of history, with the castle being half destroyed as a result near the end of WW2.
I visited Malbork Castle from Gdansk, only around 45 by train, so I give you a little bit of information on how you can do that too, and would much recommend it as it's far cheaper than paying for the organised tours from Gdansk!
I also got some great drone shots so you can enjoy some fantastic 4K aerial footage of Malbork Castle.
If you enjoyed this video, I think you'll love the VLOG I made of Gdansk, you can watch that by clicking this link here: • This is why you NEED t...
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@osgabriel20 Жыл бұрын

It’s a very impressive and beautiful castle Poland is very lovely

@timothysader7060 11 ай бұрын

Thank you from NY for this great video. I would love to visit the castle someday.

@petemoore5104 10 ай бұрын

That "thing" that you don't know what it is? It's a well, which has water in it, even today. I visited some 20-odd years ago and restoration works were still in progress. At that time, during the May holidays, there were mock jousting events. Brilliant to watch. It really brings the castle back to life.

@bratty_cthulu Жыл бұрын

3:28 HE LOOKS SO TINY IN THAT BRIDGE 😮 OMG Really helps to you see the real size of things in there

@mareka3740 Жыл бұрын

Malbork is the hometown of my father - his parents were resettled there in 1946 from Poland's eastern territories which were annexed by the Soviet Union. The castle belonged to the Polish kings between 1457 and 1772. The reconstruction of the destroyed fortress - the main gate, the castle church and the biggest medieval statue of Mary and Jesus child - ended just a few years ago in 2016 !

@BenRobson123 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment, that is really interesting to hear from you. I found the history fascinating while doing my research. It’s really cool to hear your father’s story, thanks for sharing 😇

@MrJanusz45 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Ben, from Vancouver, British Columbia. What a lovely and interesting video. This Malbork Castle looks so beautiful, full of memories.Thnaks

@roofis8121 10 ай бұрын

I was there when i was a kid on a school trip since i lived about 40mil from there, i think i'm gonna visit it someday again since it looks now nicely restored

@slawekrogulski6624 5 ай бұрын

Great videos! Small point, that “knight” on the way to the castle was a king.

@hermannarminius7757 9 ай бұрын

Marienburg :D

@ansku60 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this great video 😊 Best wishes from Finland.

@BenRobson123 Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@santaclaus310 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful place

@z123462075 Ай бұрын

very beautiful

@HEYPRESTO2010 Жыл бұрын

Your videos are so easy to watch because of the way you edit them, keep up the good work!

@BenRobson123 Жыл бұрын

Cheers Matty, thanks for the support as always!

@aleksanderkorecki7887 Жыл бұрын

This medieval knight was King Kazimierz Jagiellończyk (1427-1492) who defeated the Teutons during the Thirteen Years War and took the castle for Poland.

@henningbartels6245 9 ай бұрын

didn't he just buy it from the knights , because after there defeat it was just to costly for them to maintain it.

@aleksanderkorecki7887 9 ай бұрын

@@henningbartels6245 No, Grand Master Ludwig von Erlichshausen pawned the castle to Bohemian mercenaries that he hired, because he was unable to pay them. He had problems with paying, he was taken hostage by his own hired soldiers two times because of that. He allowed then to sell the castle if he missed the deadline. And he did miss it, so the mercenaries sold the castle to Kazimierz Jagiellończyk. Grand Master was forced to leave the castle for Królewiec, but he vowed to return. He never did.

@tommacphoto 10 ай бұрын

It's a well in the middle of the courtyard. That's how water was drawn in medieval ties. plumbing did not come until much later. Every old city in Europe had a well in the middle.

@MisterLindqvist 7 ай бұрын

Very beautiful castle! I am glad that at least our king, Karl X Gustav, did not destroyed the castle when he occupied Poland.

@SuperBlokie Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Ben for amazing video shoot. Greetings from Latvia!

@BenRobson123 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!🙏 🇱🇻

@Archivvve Жыл бұрын

Very nicely done, especially mixing live parts with you in front of cam with those narrative ones with nice shots including drone footage. And lots of additional information about site which is not so common.

@BenRobson123 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I do try put a lot of effort into doing research, getting a good variety of shots and trying to put it all into a smooth video. Takes a lot of time and effort, glad it’s appreciated! Thank you 😊

@george157boy9 Жыл бұрын

Another great video, fantastic shots as always. Keep up the good vids lad

@BenRobson123 Жыл бұрын

Thanks as always mate!

@chandrus739 5 ай бұрын

Good place.

@Zly-Porucznik 10 ай бұрын

Daaaamn!!! ''Witcher 3'' Novigrad in real live!!!

@yakeosicki8965 Жыл бұрын

The Teutonic Order was brought to Poland in 1226. Duke Konrad Mazowiecki invited them and gave them land(Chełmno and Michałów lands). Their task was to defend the lands against pagan Prussia (it was the Baltic people). It was a huge historical mistake. The Teutonic Knights conquered Prussia and other peoples and created their own state. They became the greatest enemies of the Polish Crown. The Prussian Homage ended several hundred years of wars with the Teutonic Order in 1525. Prussia became a fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for over 200 years.

@henningbartels6245 9 ай бұрын

So replacing one trouble maker with another trouble maker was the huge mistake?!?

@yakeosicki8965 9 ай бұрын

@@henningbartels6245 Yes.

@Diveyl 8 ай бұрын

You forgot to mention that they were kicked out from the Hungary in the first place, for doing unlawful things there. Like subjecting local population, cruelty and refusing local authority of Hungarian King. But Duke of Mazovya somehow thought that it would be perfectly fine if he invited them to stay.

@metanoian965 8 ай бұрын

@@Diveyl they were not invited to stay.

@metanoian965 8 ай бұрын

@@henningbartels6245 Kicking out Germans is never a mistake

@ionelcalinmicle6176 9 ай бұрын

the thing in the upper courtyard was a fountain. in case of siedge, the knights needed a water source. I visited it also in 2006. It was nice to see it again! Nice videos!

@BenRobson123 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@osgabriel20 Жыл бұрын

That’s the central well and on top is a Pelikan sculpture

@terrorbilly3367 Жыл бұрын

i was there like 14 years ago, apparently this castle was never succefully sieged, it was never conquered but polish crown aquired the castle by just buying it off from teutonic order

@metanoian965 8 ай бұрын

It was bought from Bohemian Military who were disinterested and homesick custodians. Instead of waiting them out, buying them out cheap got them out soonest

@Chickp424 9 ай бұрын

Ben…loving your travel adventures! Have been watching the Polish city guides as am hopefully going to visit soon. Just one question for you…how easy is train travel in Poland, thinking of staying in Wroclaw and visiting other towns…ie. Will I get lost and end up in a completely different country or is it fool proof! 😆

@BenRobson123 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic, thank you! Pretty easy, I think you'd perfectly fine, can always just ask and I'd imagine plenty of people will speak English. Go for it, some beautiful cities in Poland!

@Chickp424 9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@stephenblake6386 Жыл бұрын

Another great video. How much time did you spend at the castle?

@BenRobson123 Жыл бұрын

Probably around 3 hours or so, but obviously it takes more time with filming / getting drone shots. Unfortunately I think we also missed a section of the castle, so around 3 hours is probably perfect

@semacomer Жыл бұрын

❤

@henningbartels6245 9 ай бұрын

I don't get the story that during the WW2 "a lot of artifacts were stolen by Germans". Malbork (Marienburg back then) was a German town within Germany. If something was taken out of the castle which the German state just reconstructed half a century ago and brought to a saver place ... this process is called evacuating. Or did Ben mean during the war chaos some thiefs plundered the museum?

@occidentadvocate.9759 Жыл бұрын

"German Civilians caught in the crossfire of War"? NO! they were German Civilians who were murdered by the Soviet Red army in their hundreads of thousands in this Region in 1945. A man called Micky Malia from my home town of Gateshead was actually a witness to these mass murders in Marionburg as the town was then called. He alongside hundreds other POWs was liberated from a camp and forced into the Red army. He went on to fight in the Battle of Berlin, and managed to board a RAF plane in May 1945 that had landed in Berlin part of the British occupation forces of the city. He and 2 other British soldiers were flown to England still in Red Army uniforms.

@andrzejszpak688 Жыл бұрын

Nice propaganda

@SairanBurghausen 11 ай бұрын

@@andrzejszpak688 Okay, Russian

@metanoian965 8 ай бұрын

grow up, Troll. Population OstpreuBen, 1944 = 2, 653, 000. 2, 000, 000 evacuated / expelled. Casualties - 31 ,940 [German Schieder Commission]

@maxmk2275 Жыл бұрын

One mistake in 13 century the order of the Tectonic knights were expelled from Hungary and later from Venice. They were invited by polish prince Konrad of Masovia to convert pagan tribes to Christianity Kulmerland. As they grow in power they eventually moved their base to Malbork. Prussia is a German concept as a country. There actually was an ethnic group called Prussian. Which often is connected with germanic culture not necessarily the truth. All this came few centuries later as the germanic population emigrated to this region.

@BenRobson123 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Max, the history can be a little hard to keep track of when researching it all sometimes. Much appreciated!

@kristianskoczylas5809 Жыл бұрын

@@BenRobson123 Also it's important to mention that Malbork and numerous other castles build by teutons was sponsored by western European nobility, which paid fee's in order to be able to participate in teutonic crusades against Prussians and Lithuanians, although this is what made money for the order it was also what caused it's doom, by 1410 Lithuania (by Lithuanian Duke marrying Polish King Jadwiga) and Prussia (by murder and plunder of the indiginous population) was Christianized but teutons continued to raid and plunder, eventually Lithuanian and Polish nobility decided to marry their rulers what came known as the personal Union of Poland - Lithuania. Combined forces later destroyed teutons in battle of Grunwald in 1410, and the remains of the teutonic order in northern Poland became subject of Polish king in 1525, and Livonian Order which was in todays Latvia and Estonia asked for protection from Polish King which led to 100 years of wars between Poland, Sweden and Russia in 17th century.

@henningbartels6245 9 ай бұрын

@@kristianskoczylas5809 the murdering teutonic crusades is to larger extent a popular Polish myth which fitted well in an anti-German sentiment of the 20th century. You can't maintain a number of such large castles if you murder the entire local population. Even knights have to eat food and that from local farmers.

@metanoian965 8 ай бұрын

@@henningbartels6245 import German peasants

@aksafathima559 Жыл бұрын

is it a good time to go in may?

@BenRobson123 Жыл бұрын

I don’t see why not!😄

@bob.7412 Жыл бұрын

May would be great! Because earlier durning March and April castle migjt not be filled with all the pretty leaves and bushes after winter. But by May they should be already there, and it's a pretty view!

@indrajitnandi1626 Жыл бұрын

Can you tell about the entry fee of this castle?

@BenRobson123 Жыл бұрын

47 Zloty, which is roughly about £10 🙂

@Pawel_Mrozek 10 ай бұрын

2:50 If you give historical background, it's better not to make such big mistakes. The Teutonic Order, after withdrawing from the crusades, did not retreat to German Prussia because there was no such thing. At that time, the Order had nowhere to go. The Polish prince Konrad Mazowiecki invited the Order to help him in the fight against the pagan Prussians which were the Baltic tribes like Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians. Teutonic Order pacified the tribes through long wars and created its state on their territory. 7:40 I was in that castle a few times and I could say that you missed the majority of the most impressive interiors in fact. This castle is huge like a city and sometimes reminds labyrinth so visiting it without any guide not knowing where to go and what you are looking at, sad to say but make no sense. The guide would also explain the context of the construction of this castle and its history related to the Polish-Teutonic War, along with the largest battle of medieval Europe, which took place at Grunwald. Besides, without a guide, it is impossible to learn about all the sophisticated technology that has been used in this castle, its elevators, heated floors and various thoughtful solutions that were supposed to make the life of the Order's knights more comfortable. No other castle was so high-tech for its time. The Teutonic Order gathered a huge amount of knowledge about engineering and technology from the Eastern Roman Empire and applied it in their country, using one of the largest sources of wealth in Europe at that time, the Baltic Amber. As for the damage to the castle itself, it was considerable, which can be seen from the colors of the bricks, but contrary to appearances, the castle was most ruined in the 19th century when work was undertaken to rebuild it. These works, with a break for the war, have been going on for over 150 years and is still going on. I believe that now if you wanted to go through all the routes available for sightseeing, it would not be possible to do it in one day.

@henningbartels6245 9 ай бұрын

There is also an audioguide available nowadays, which allows you explore the building on your own. After centuries of use simply as military baracks it seemingly was run down and a lot of medieval details were missing. Therefore German emperor Wilhelm II hired architects and provided funds for reconstructions. This also had a propaganda purpuse with the reconstructed Marienburg marking the East of his empire while the reconstructed Hohkönigsburg (Haut-Koenigsbourg today) marking the West. Obviously where medieval details were missing they took sophisticated guesses and copied other German castles. Therefore it is questionable how much "origininal" there was before the devastations of WW2.

@metanoian965 8 ай бұрын

The Order of Mary was Swiss Freemasonic. It set up its HQ Bank in Switzerland. All leaders were Swiss. These were pagans with close ties to Islam. Not Christian at all, but had license from the Pope to plunder pagan lands for profit. Lesser ranks were West mercenaries and landless sons of West nobles.