Elbing is the German name of Elbląg, a city in northern Poland which until 1945 was a German city in the province of East Prussia.

* Elbląg ( river ), on which the city of Elbląg is located

Elbląg () is a city in northern Poland with 127, 892 inhabitants ( 2006 ).

It is the capital of Elbląg County and has been assigned to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since 1999.

The city is a port on the river Elbląg which flows into the Vistula Lagoon about 10 km to the north, thus giving the city access to the Baltic Sea via the Russian-controlled Strait of Baltiysk.

The Old City () is located on the river Elbląg connecting Lake Drużno to the Vistula Lagoon, about 10 km from the lagoon and 60 km from Gdańsk.

On the east is the Elbląg Upland ( Wysoczyzna Elbląska ), a dome pushed up by glacial compression, 390 km < sup > 2 </ sup > in diameter and high at its greatest elevation.

Elbląg is situated in flat land extending to the west in the Vistula Delta ( Żuławy Wiślane ) used mainly for agricultural purposes.

The Elbląg River has been left in a more natural state through the city, but elsewhere it is a controlled channel with branches.

The Elbląg Canal ( Kanał Elbląski ) connecting Lake Drużno with Drwęca River and Lake Jeziorak is a popular tourist site.

Elbląg is not a deep-water port.

The turning area at Elbląg is diameter and a pilot is required for large vessels.

Traffic of smaller vessels at Elbląg is within the river and very marginal, while larger vessels cannot reach the open Baltic Sea because the channel, once built in East-Prussia to go through the peninsula, has belonged to Russia since 1945.

It is thus the oldest source for documented Polish common law and is in Polish referred to as the Księga Elbląska ( Book of Elbląg ).

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It is located around the modern towns of Elbląg and Malbork.

It was one of the trading posts on the Amber Road, and is thought to be the antecedent of the city of Elbląg ( Elbing ).

Gwyn Jones notes that " no true town has been found and excavated " and that the identification of the site in Elbląg with Truso is based on " finds of Norse weapons " and the presence of " a large Viking Age cemetery " nearby, According to Mateusz Bogucki " by now, there is no doubt that the settlement really is Wulfstan's Truso " The Elbląg Museum brochure: Truso-A Discovered Legend, by Marek F Jagodziński, describes a large number of buildings found during the recent excavations, with burnt remains of posts suggesting buildings of c. 5 x 10 m and long houses of about 6 x 21 m.

The city was known to the Polish crown by its Polish name Elbląg.

During the War of the Polish Succession in 1734, Elbląg and Danzig ( Gdańsk ) were placed under military occupation by Russia and Saxony.

After the expulsion of most of the German population, the city was repopulated and became known under the Polish name Elbląg.

Riverine services operate on almost all major Polish rivers and canals ( such as the Danube – Oder and Elbląg canals ) as well as on domestic coastal routes.

Bodeck came from a prominent patrician family of Elbing ( Elbląg ) in the Polish province of Royal Prussia.

The voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999, out of the former voivodeships of Gdańsk, Elbląg and Słupsk, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998.

Polish Prussia established in 1466 included these western parts of Teutonic Prussia, i. e. the Pomerelian lands with the port of Gdańsk ( Gdańsk Pomerania ), as well as Chełmno Land ( Kulmerland ) with Michałowo Land and Toruń in the south, but also the area around Malbork and Elbląg and the epicopal lands of Warmia.

During the Thirteen Years ' War (" War of the Cities "), in February 1454, the Confederation, led by the citizens of Gdańsk, Elbląg, and Toruń, as well as gentry from Chełmno Land sent a delegation with Johannes von Baysen to ask the Polish king for support against the Teutonic Order's rule and for incorporation of Prussia into the Polish kingdom.

Thirteen years of attrition warfare ended in October 1466 with the Second Peace of Toruń, which provided for the Order's cession to the Polish Crown of its rights over the western half of Prussia, including Pomerelia and the districts of Elbląg, Malbork, and Chełmno.

In the 16th century the Polish Hanseatic trade city near the Baltic Sea had a large trade volume with England and Scotland, and many English and Scots had come to live in Elbląg ( see Eastland Company ).

The same year he moved to Elbing ( Elbląg ) in Polish Royal Prussia, and in 1648 went to England with the aid of Samuel Hartlib, who came originally from Elbing.

Monument of victims of massacres during Polish 1970 protests in Elbląg.

The strait is the main connection from the open sea to the important ports of Baltiysk and Kaliningrad in Russia, as well as to the Polish ports of Elbląg, Braniewo, Tolkmicko, Frombork, Sztutowo, Krynica Morska, and Nowa Pasłęka.

EB Start Elbląg is a Polish women's handball team, based in Elbląg, playing in Polish Ekstraklasa Women's Handball League ( Premiership League ).

Achenwall was born in Elbing ( Elbląg ) in the Polish province of Royal Prussia.

In exchange for military aid in the Second Northern War and the return of Ermland ( Ermeland, Warmia ) to Poland, the Polish king granted the Hohenzollern dynasty of Brandenburg hereditary sovereignty in the Duchy of Prussia, pawned Draheim ( Drahim ) and Elbing ( Elbląg ) to Brandenburg, and handed over Lauenburg and Bütow Land to the Hohenzollerns as a hereditary fief.

Swedes also got the right to tax Polish trade moved through the Baltic ( 3. 5 % on the value of goods ), kept control of many cities in Royal Prussia ( including Baltiysk ( Pillau, Piława ), Memel and Elbląg ( Elbing )) and for the time were generally recognized as the dominant power on the southern Baltic Sea coast.

Endersch also made a copper etching that depicted a galley that had been built in Elbing in 1738 and was named D ' Stadt Elbing ( German for " City of Elbląg ").

Hans Goltz ( August 11, 1873 in Elbing ( Elbląg ), Prussia, Germany — October 21, 1927 in Baden-Baden ) was a German art dealer, known as a pioneer of modernism in art.

They formed the Scottish Reformed Church of Elbląg and became Elbing citizens, aiding Lutheran Sweden in the Thirty Years ' War.

Georg Steenke, an engineer from Königsberg, connected Elbing near the Baltic Sea with the southern part of Prussia by building the Oberländischer Kanal ( Elbląg Canal ).

Endersch was born in Dörnfeld an der Heide, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Thuringia, but lived most of his life in Elbing ( Elbląg ), Royal Prussia in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

On 14 March 1440, a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 Prussian cities, under the leadership of the Hanseatic cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Elbing ( Elbląg ), and Thorn ( Toruń ), founded the Prussian Confederation in Marienwerder ( Kwidzyn ).

The city of Elbing ( Elbląg ) was founded in 1237 by the Order near the ancient Prussian trading town of Truso.

Comenius of Bohemia and Nigrinus had worked in nearby Elbing ( Elbląg ) on a Bohemian Pansophy.

The treaty concluded the Thirteen Years ' War ( 1454 – 1466 ) which had begun in February 1454 with the revolt of the Prussian Confederation, led by the cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Elbing ( Elbląg ), Kulm ( Chełmno ) and Thorn, and the Prussian gentry against the rule of the Teutonic Knights in the Monastic State.

The Preußische Ostbahn railway line was opened in 1899 connecting Elbing ( Elbląg ) and Braunsberg ( Braniewo ) via Frauenburg, leading further to the Russian border at Eydtkuhnen ( Chernyshevskoye ).

This smaller region consisted of the rural districts of Elbing, Marienburg ( today Malbork ), Marienwerder ( today Kwidzyn ), Rosenberg ( today Susz ), Stuhm ( today Sztum ), and the city of Elbing ( Elbląg ); the districts of Elbing and Marienburg and the city of Elbing had previously been part of Regierungsbezirk Danzig.

# Elbing ( Elbląg between 1466-1772 and since 1945 )

On 11 July 1947 the Ermland chapter, residing in the Allied Bizone, then elected Provost Arthur Kather ( 1883 – 1957 ), officiating before his exile at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Elbing ( today's Elbląg ), capitular vicar, as provided by canon law in case of sede vacante.

The Sudermanns were a Mennonite family long settled near Elbing, a city in northern Poland ( now Elbląg ).

Major towns in Poland included: Gdańsk ( Danzig ) ( 70, 000 ), Kraków ( 28, 000 ), Warsaw ( 20, 000-30, 000 ), Poznań ( 20, 000 ), Lwów ( Lviv ) ( 20, 000 ), Elbląg ( Elbing ) ( 15, 000 ), Toruń ( Thorn ) ( 12, 000 ), Sandomierz ( 4, 000-5, 000 ), Kazimierz Dolny ( 4, 000-5, 000 ) and Gniezno ( 4, 000-5, 000 ).

In 1862 the Oberland Canal ( Elbląg Canal ) was built between Elbing ( Elbląg ) and Eylau by engineer Georg Steenke, which enabled the inland town to transport bulk of lumber, farm products, and other goods north to Elbing and the Baltic Sea.