Gniew (in Polish it means anger) - small city built in XIII - is famous in Europe, becouse of it's castle and International Knights Tournament which is hosted every year by the town.
.jpg "Panorama of Gniew")
Author:Jerzy Strzelecki under:Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
History of the city is rich. Current city lands were on Polanie's territory (one of the Polish tribe before Poland) and through the times a lot of Polish landlords posesed this area. In 1276 Teutonic Knights got the land from Polish lord Sambor (which he took from Cysters Order) and they created here an outpost and later built the castle and the city. Gniew wondered from Teutonic's to Polish hands during war between Poland and Knights.
What is interesting, near Gniew in 1626 Polish special units - Husaria were defeated by the Sweeden. It was second defeat of Husaria ever in history.
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The history of the Gniew, it's connection with the knights and well preserved castle, results in International Knights Tournament and other events based on knights and tournaments traditions like Vivat Vasa (pol Bitwa dwóch wazów).
It is definitely worth to visit the city during such events. Man can see then not only fights and tournaments but also inscenizations of battles or even fights in inns.
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Vivat Vasa - battle inscenization from 2007 (Bitwa dwóch wazzów)
It is definitely worth to visit the city during such events. Man can see then not only fights and tournaments but also inscenizations of battles or even fights in inns.
There are of course more reasons to visit Gniew, especially:
- Teutonic Knight's castle from XIII century
- Marysieńka's Palace (built by Jan Sobieski - one of the POlish king) where now is hotel
- old major hause
- old synagouge
- old town
- and old, gothic church from XIV century (rebuilt in XIX)
Author: Mikołaj Kirschke under:Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0
Sabre fight - final
Final fight from knight's tournament in Gniew
Fight in Karczma - inscenization