In Grunwald in 1410, during the Great War beetwen Polish kingdom and Teutonic Knights Order, one of the greatest battle took place. This combat was fortunately won by Poland and Lithuania (then this countries were in union).

The main cause of the war, was in very, very short, Teutonic Knights Order, which was brought to Polish lands by one of the king (Konrad of Masovia) to help with the Crusade against pagan Prussians. The Order developed itself very quickly and started to expand it's territory by sword. Instead of fighting with pagans Teutonic Knights become a real threat to Poland and Lithuania.

Fragment of battle staging

Every year, in Grunwald there is a celebration to commemorate the great battle. It's definitely worth to be there then, because of staging of the combat. Many, many people from all over the country gather and fight with real swords, shields and armors divided into two groups - Teutonic Knights and the Lithuania&Poland Union.

The videos made from last year events in Grunwald

(If You getting bored quickly, we recomend to skip first one ;-) )

This year, exactly 600 years later, there are special events in Poland to commemorate Battle of Grunwald. There will be replayed events which took place before and after the Tannenberg Battle. The program can be found here but, unfortunately, as usual only in Polish.

Video commercial about 600-th anniversary of the Tannenberg Battle