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A Detailed Study of the Upland Gate Brama Wyzyina in Polish.

For over a thousand years, there have been many different nationalities and groups who have called Gdansk/Danzig their home—for 700 years the town remained under the rule of Polish dukes and kings, then counted at 7,000 citizens, mostly Poles, and fewer Germans. The Teutonic Knights, in 1308, captured Gdansk. Under the rule of the Knights

Birds-eye view of Gdansk; cranes in shipyard at upper left, the Hotel Orbi Hewevelius (B) wit its orange bricks, bright in the late afternoon sun & the two historical churches: St. Kathein’s in front, facing street, and St. Brigid’s in back. (The latter was in strumental in the defeat of communism.) See Photo [inside black rectangle on left at letter”A”]

 

Danzig Report   Nr. 160 - 2nd Quarter 2013, Page 11.