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Elbląg
Port and the Old Town
FlagCoat of arms
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Warmian-Masurian
Powiat	City County
Gmina	Elbląg
Estabilished	1237
City Rights	1246
Government
• Mayor	Henryk Słonina
Area
• Total	80 km (30 sq mi)
Population
• Total	127,055
• Density	1,560/km (4,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	82-300 to 82-315
Area code	+48 055
Car Plates	NE
Website	www.umelblag.pl

Elbląg (IPA: ; Template:Audio-de) 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. Before then it was the capital of Elbląg Voivodeship (1975–1998) and a county seat in Gdańsk Voivodeship (1945–1975). The city is a port on the Elbląg River 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.

During the Middle Ages the Old Prussian settlement of Truso was located at Lake Drusen near the current site of Elbląg in historical Pogesania. The Teutonic Knights conquered the region, where previously in the 10th century the settlement of Truso burned down (according to Elblag museum information) and the inhabitants dispersed in the process. The Teutonic Order built a castle and founded Elbing at Lake Dr(a)usen with a population mostly from Lübeck; today the much smaller lake does not reach the city any more. After the defeat of the Teutonic Knights and the destruction of the castle by the inhabitants, the city successively came under protection of the Polish crown, the Kingdom of Prussia, and Germany. Elbing was heavily damaged in World War II, its German citizens were expelled upon the war's end. The city became part of Poland in 1945 and was repopulated with Polish citizens.

Geography

The Old City (Template:Lang-pl) is located on the Elbląg River connecting Lake Drużno to the Vistula Lagoon, about 10 km from the lagoon and 80 km from Gdańsk. The city was heavily (65%) damaged at the end of World War II and thereafter almost totally destroyed, when many of the buildings still standing were taken down by Communist Poland for the bricks to be used for rebuilding destroyed Gdańsk and Warsaw. The new inhabitants of the city eventually succeeded in being able to rebuild parts of the inner city and ca. 2000 rebuilding was started in a style emulating the previous architecture, in many cases over the same foundations and utilising the old bricks and portions of the same walls. However, the western bank part of the city is completely gone after the war damage.

The modern city covers over 50% of the distance between Lake Drużno and Elbląg Bay (Zatoka Elbląska), an arm of the Vistula Lagoon, and extends on either side of the river, but especially to the east. On the east is the Elbląg Upland (Wysoczyzna Elbląska), a dome pushed up by glacial compression, 390 square km in diameter and 200 m high at its greatest elevation. It gives the appearance of ridges and parkland.

Elbląg is situated in flat land extending to the west in the Vistula Delta (Żuławy Wiślane) used mainly for agricultural purposes. Views to the west show flat fields extending to the horizon, while to the south are the marshes and swamps of Drużno. The Elbląg River has been left in a more natural state through the city, but elsewhere it is a controlled channel with branches. One of them, the Jagielonski Channel (Kanał Jagieloński), leads to the Nogat River, along which navigation to Gdańsk is common. 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 draft of vessels using its waterways must be no greater than 1.5 m by law. The turning area at Elbląg is 120 m diameter and a pilot is required for large vessels. Deep water vessels cannot maneuver; in that sense, Elbląg has become a subsidiary port of Gdańsk. The city features three quay complexes, movable cranes, and railways. One of its specialities is heavy machinery.

Although it make little total contribution to the town's economy, Elbląg has the largest hamster farm in Poland.

• Panoramic view.
• The Old City of 1626. Since the city is concentrated on the east, the view is toward Lake Drausen (Drużno) in the south.
• Reconstructed buildings in the Old City.
• Market Gate, Old City.

Names

Etymology

Elbląg is the Polish derivative of the German name Elbing, which was assigned by the Teutonic Knights to the citadel and subsequent town placed by them in 1237 next to the river. The purpose of the citadel was to prevent the Old Prussian settlement of Truso from being reoccupied, as the German crusaders were at war with the pagan Prussians. The citadel was named after the river, itself of uncertain etymology. One traditional etymology connects it to the name of the Helveconae, a Germanic tribe mentioned in Ancient Greek and Latin sources, but the etymology or language of the tribal name is not known.

Historical names

Early sources: river Ilfing (890), Castrum de Elbingo quod a nomine fluminis Elbingum appellavit (1237 — Peter of Dusburg, Chronicon terrae Prussiae), in Elbingo (1239), in Elbing (1242), in Elbinge ... fluvium Elbinc (1246, city charter), de Elbingo (1250), in Elbyngo (1258), vitra Elbingum (1263), Elvingo (1293), in Elbingo (1300), in Elvingo (1389), czum Elbinge (1392), czu Elbing (1403), Elwing (1410), czum Elwinge (1412), Elbing (1414–1438), Elbyang (before 1454), Elbing (1508), ku Elbiągowi (1634), w Elblągu (1661), w Elblągu (1661).

History

Old Prussian Truso

The seaport of Truso was first mentioned ca. 890 by Wulfstan of Hedeby, an Anglo-Saxon sailor, travelling on the south coast of the Baltic Sea at the behest of King Alfred the Great of England. The exact location of Truso was not known for a long time, as the seashore has significantly changed, but most historians trace the settlement inside or near to modern Elbląg on Lake Drużno. Truso was located at territory already known to the Roman Empire and earlier.

It was an important seaport serving the Vistula River bay on the early medieval Baltic Sea trade routes which led from Birka in the north to the island of Gotland and to Visby in the Baltic Sea. From there, traders continued further south to Carnuntum along the Amber Road. The ancient Amber Road led further southwest and southeast to the Black Sea and eventually to Asia. The east-west trade route went from Truso, along the Baltic Sea to Jutland, and from there inland by river to Hedeby, a large trading center in Jutland. The main goods of Truso were amber, furs, and slaves.

Archaeological finds in 1897 and diggings in the 1920s placed Truso at Gut Hansdorf. A large burial field was also found at Elbing. Artifacts were placed in the Elbing Museum. Recent Polish diggings show burned beams and ashes and many 1000 year old artifacts on an area about 20 hectares.

Prussian Crusade

The attempts at conquest of Prussian land began in 997, when Boleslaw I Chrobry sent his soldiers with Adalbert of Prague, in order to conquer and convert the pagan Prussian. They came up to the Baltic Sea cost, converted a number of Prussians in the area of today's Gdansk and went all along the coast to Sambia. Starting 1209 a number of crusades were called for by Konrad of Masovia, who again sought to conquer Prussian territory and continued with wars that led to the loss of Old Prussian sovereignty began with the preaching of a crusade against them in 1217 and 1218 by Pope Honorius III. The Prussians were bordered by the Slavic Pomeranians, who also had to fight off conquest attempts by Polish rulers many times and in the south by the Duchy of Masovia, both by then Christianised peoples. The crusade came in 1223, but was soundly defeated by the Prussians. They besieged the Polish forces in Chełmno, the seat of Christian of Oliva, the first Bishop of Prussia, and attacked Pomerania and Masovia.

In 1226 Duke Konrad I of Masovia summoned the Teutonic Knights for assistance; by 1230 they had secured Chełmno (Culm) and begun claiming conquered territories for themselves under the authority of the Holy Roman Empire, although these claims were rejected by the Poles, who had several times tried to conquer Prussia. The Teutonic Order's strategy was to move down the Vistula and secure the delta, establishing a barrier between the Prussians and Gdańsk. Next in order was Pomesania, containing Truso.

The Chronicon terrae Prussiae describes the conflict in the vicinity of Lake Drusen (now Drużno) shortly before the founding of Elbing:

Omnia propugnacula, que habebant in illo loco, qui dicitur (list) ... circa stagnum Drusine ... occisis et captiis infidelibus, potenter expugnavit, et in cinerem redigendo terre alteri coequavit."

"All the little redoubts that they had in that place, which are said to be (list) ... and around the Drusine marsh ... he (frater Hermannus magister) assaulted and levelled by rendering them into ash, after the infidels had been killed or captured."

Truso did not disappear suddenly to be replaced with the citadel and town of Elbing during the Prussian Crusade. Truso was burned down already in the tenth century. Population was dispersed in the area.

Foundation of Elbing

The Chronicon terrae Prussiae describes the founding of Elbing. After building two ships, the Pilgerim (Pilgrim) and the Vridelant (Friedland), the Teutonic knights used them to clear the Vistula Lagoon (Frisches Haff) and the Vistula Spit of Prussians:

... et recens mare purgatum fuit ab insultu infidelium ...

... "and the Vistula Spit was purged of the insult of the infidels..."

Apparently the river was in Pomesania, which the knights had just finished clearing, but the bay was in Pogesania. The first Elbing was placed in Pogesania:

Magister ... venit ad terram Pogesanie, ad insulam illam ... que est in media fluminis Elbingi, in illo loco, ubi Elbingus intrat recens mare et erexit ibi castrum, quod a nomine fluminis Elbingum appellavit, anno dominice incarnacionis MCCXXXVII. Aliqui referunt, quod idem castrum postea ab infidelibus fuerit expugnatum, et tunc ad eum locum, ubi nunc situm est, translatum, et circa ipsum civitas collocata.

"The master ... came to the region of Pogesania, to that island which is in the middle of the Elbing river, in that place where the Elbing enters the Vistula Lagoon, and built there a fort, which he called by the name of the Elbing River, in the year of the incarnation of the Lord, 1237. Others report that the same fort was attacked by the infidels and then was moved to the place where it is now situated, and the city gathered around it."

Both landings were amphibious operations conducted from the ships. The Chronicon relates that they were in use for many years and then were sunk in Lake Drusen. In 1238 the Dominican Order was invited to build a monastery on a grant of land. Pomesania was not secured, however, and from 1240-1242 the order began building a brick castle on the south side of the settlement, where archaeologists now believe Truso had been. It may be significant that Elbing's first industry was the same as Truso's had been: manufacture of amber and bone artifacts for export. In 1243 William of Modena created the Diocese of Pomesania and three others. They were at first only ideological constructs, but the tides of time turned them into reality in that same century.

The foundation of Elbing was perhaps not the end of the Old Prussian story in the region. In 1825 a manuscript listing a vocabulary of the Baltic Old Prussian language, named the Elbing-Prussian Dictionary (Template:Lang-de), or more commonly in English just Elbing Vocabulary, was found among some manuscripts from a merchant's house. It contained 802 words in a dialect now termed Pomesanian with their equivalents in an early form of German.

The origin of the vocabulary remains unknown. Its format is like that of modern travel dictionaries; i.e., it may have been used by German speakers to communicate with Old Prussians, but the specific circumstances are only speculative. The manuscript became the Codex Neumannianus. It disappeared after a British bombing raid destroyed the library at Elbing but before then facsimiles had been made. The date of the MSS was estimated at ca. 1400, but it was a copy. There is no evidence concerning the provenance of the original, except that it must have been in Pomesanian.

Hanseatic Elbing

In 1246 the town was granted a constitution under Lübeck law, used in maritime circumstances, instead of Magdeburg rights common in other cities in Central Europe. This decision of the Order was in keeping with its general strategy of espousing the trade association that in 1358 would become the Hanseatic League. The Order seized on this association early and used it to establish bases throughout the Baltic. The Order's involvement in the League was somewhat contradictory. In whatever cities they founded the ultimate authority was the commander of the town, who kept office in the citadel, typically used as a prison. Lübeck law, on the other hand, provided for self-government of the town.

Membership in the Hanseatic League meant having important trading contacts with England, Flanders, France, and the Netherlands. The city received numerous merchant privileges from the rulers of England, Poland, Pomerania, and the Teutonic Order. For instance, the privilege of the Old Town (Template:Lang-de, Template:Lang-pl) was upgraded in 1343, while in 1393 it was granted an emporium privilege for grains, metals, and forest products.

Except for the citadel and churches, Elbing at the time was more of a small village by modern standards. Its area was 300 m by 500 m. It featured a wharf, a marketplace and five streets, as well as a number of churches. The castle was completed in 1251. In 1288 fire destroyed the entire settlement except for the churches, which were of brick. A new circuit wall was started immediately. From 1315 to 1340 Elbląg was rebuilt. A separate settlement called New Town (Template:Lang-de) was founded ca. 1337 and received Lübeck rights in 1347. In 1349 the Black Death struck the town, toward the end of the European plague. After the population recovered it continued building up the city and in 1364 a crane was built for the port.

The German-language Elbinger Rechtsbuch , written in Elbing, Prussia documented among other laws for the first Polish common law. It is thus the oldest source for documented Polish common law and is in Polish referred to as the Book of Elbląg (Template:Lang-pl). It was written down in the second half of the 13th century.

Kingdom of Poland

In 1440 several western and eastern Prussian towns formed the Prussian Confederation, which led the revolt of Prussia against the rule of the Teutonic Knights in 1454. The burghers destroyed the Teutonic Order castle. For assistance against the Order, the Confederation asked for help from King Casimir IV of Poland; Casimir's subsequent claiming of Prussia led to the Thirteen Years' War.

After the Section of Prussians and Polish victory over the Teutonic Order, the city became part of the autonomous province of Royal Prussia under the suzerainty of the Polish crown in the Second Peace of Toruń. The city was known to the Polish crown by its Polish name Elbląg. With the creation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569, the city was brought under direct control of the Polish crown.

With the 16th century Protestant Reformation the burghers became Protestants and the first Protestant Gymnasium was established in Elbląg in 1535.

From 1579 Elbląg had close trade relations with England, to which the city accorded free trade. English, Scottish, and Irish merchants settled in the city. They formed the Scottish Reformed Church of Elbląg and became Elbing citizens, aiding Protestant Sweden in the Thirty Years' War. The rivalry of nearby Danzig interrupted trading links several times. By 1618 Elbląg had left the Hanseatic League owing to its close business dealings with England.

Famous inhabitants of the city at that time included native sons Hans von Bodeck and Samuel Hartlib. During the Thirty Years' War, Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna brought the Moravian Brethren refugee John Amos Comenius to Elbląg for six years (1642-48). In 1642 Johann Stobäus, who composed with Johann Eccard, published the Preussische Fest-Lieder, a number of evangelical Prussian songs. In 1646 the city recorder Daniel Barholz noted that the city council employed Bernsteindreher, or Paternostermacher, licensed and guilded amber craftsmen who worked on prayer beads, rosaries, and many other items made of amber. Members of the Barholz family became mayors and councillors.

During the Thirty Years' War, the Vistula Lagoon was the main southern Baltic base of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, who was hailed as the protector of the Protestants. By 1660 the Vistula Lagoon had gone to Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia, but was returned in 1700.

The poet Christian Wernicke was born in 1661 in Elbląg, while Gottfried Achenwall became famous for his teachings in natural law and human rights law.

In 1710-1712 it was occupied by Russian troops.

The Imperial cartographer Johann Friedrich Endersch completed a map of Warmia (Template:Lang-de) in 1755 and also made a copper etching of the galley named "The City of Elbląg" (Template:Lang-de) .

During the War of the Polish Succession in 1734, Elbląg and Danzig (Gdańsk) were placed under military occupation by Russia and Saxony. The town came again under occupation by Russia from 1758-1762 during the Seven Years' War.

Hohenzollern Prussia

During the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the city state was annexed by King Frederick the Great of the Kingdom of Prussia. Elbing became part of the new Prussian Province of East Prussia in 1773.

Elbing industrialized under the sovereignty of the Hohenzollern kings in Berlin. In 1828 the first steamship was built by Ignatz Grunau. In 1837 Ferdinand Schichau started the F. Schichau company in Elbing as well as another shipyard in Danzig later on. Schichau constructed the Borussia, the first screw-vessel in Germany. F. Schichau built hydraulic machinery, ships, steam engines, and torpedoes. After the inauguration of the railway to Königsberg in 1853, Elbing's industry began to grow. Schichau worked together with his son-in-law Carl H. Zise, who continued the industrial complex after Schichau's death. Schichau erected large complexes for his many thousands of workers.

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).

Elbing became part of the Prussian-led German Empire in 1871 during the unification of Germany. As Elbing became an industrial city, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) frequently received the majority of votes; in the 1912 Reichstag elections the SPD received 51% of the vote.

Mormons started filming the church records of Elbing's citizens in Kirchenbücher. Records dating from 1577 to 1890 are available.

Nazi Germany

During the time of Nazi Germany (1933-1945), the Nazi Party enjoyed particular popularity and support among the town's population. Three subcamps of the Stutthof concentration camp were located near the town: Elbing, Elbing (Org. Todt), and Elbing (Schinau). This however soon ended when a large number of the German inhabitants of Elbing fled before the Soviet Red Army approached the city during World War II. During the siege of February 1945 the city infrastructure was 65% destroyed, including most of the historical city center. Almost all Germans who returned or remained were expelled as the city was transferred to Poland by the Soviet Union in spring 1945, a decision accepted by Allies in the Potsdam Conference.

History after 1945

The city was repopulated and became known under the Polish name Elbląg. 98% of the new inhabitants were Poles expelled from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union or Polish peasants from overpopulated villages in central Poland. Some of the damaged historical city center was completely demolished and the bricks were used to rebuild Warsaw and Gdańsk. The Communist authorities planned that the Old Town, utterly destroyed in 1945, be rebuilt with blocks of flats. However, economic difficulties thwarted this plan. Two churches were reconstructed and the remaining ruins of the old town were torn down in the 1960s.

Elbląg was the scene of one of the riots in the coastal cities in 1970 together with Tricity and Szczecin (see also coastal cities events). Since 1990 there has been an emergence of a German minority group, Elbinger Minderheit, counting around 100 persons.

Restoration of the Old Town began after 1989. Since the beginning of the restoration, an extensive archaeological programme has been carried out. Most of the city's heritage was destroyed during the construction of basements in the 19th century or during World War II, but the backyards and latrines of the houses were not changed and provide information on the city's history. On some occasions the private investors incorporated parts of preserved stonework into new architecture. Approximately 75% of the Old Town has been reconstructed as of 2006. The city museum presents many pieces of art and utilities of everyday use, including the only 15th century binoculars preserved in Europe.

Tourist attractions

Until World War II there were many Gothic, renaissance and baroque houses in Elbląg's Old Town; some of them are reconstructed. Other preserved buildings are:

• St. Nicholas Cathedral - a monumental 13th century Gothic church (cathedral only from 1992, before it was a parochial church), damaged by fire in the late 18th century, then destroyed in World War II and reconstructed
• city gate (Brama Targowa) - erected in 1319
• St. Mary's Church - former Dominican church, erected in the 13th century, rebuilt in the 14th and 16th centuries; damaged in World War II and reconstructed in 1961 as an art gallery; remnants of cloister are partially preserved
• Holy Ghost church with hospital, from the 14th century
• Corpus Christi church from the 14th century

Elbląg Institutions of Higher Education

• Elbląg Higher School of Arts and Economics (Template:Lang-pl)
  • Faculty of Pedagogy
  • Faculty of Administration
  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • Faculty of Economics and Politics
• Elbląg Higher State College of Vocational Education (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa)
  • Faculty of Pedagogy nad Foreign Languages
  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of Applied Computer Science
  • Faculty of Technical Sciences
• Bogdan Jański Higher School, Faculty in Elbląg (Szkoła Wyższa im. Bogdana Jańskiego)
  • Faculty of Management and Land Management
• Elbląg Diocese Theological Seminary (Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne Diecezji Elbląskiej)
• Regent College - Foreign Language Teacher Training College (Regent College - Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych)
  • Faculty of English Studies

Sports

• EB Start Elbląg - women's handball team playing in Polish Ekstraklasa Women's Handball League: 5th place in 2003/2004 season.

• Olimpia Elbląg - men's football club

Politics

Elbląg constituency

Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Elbląg constituency

• Jan Antochowski, SLD-UP
• Danuta Ciborowska, SLD-UP
• Witold Gintowt-Dziewałtowski, SLD-UP
• Stanisław Gorczyca, PO
• Jerzy Müller, SLD-UP
• Adam Ołdakowski, Samoobrona
• Andrzej Umiński, SLD-UP
• Stanisław Żelichowski, PSL

City partnerships

Elbląg has partnerships with the following cities:

• Leer (Germany)
• Kaliningrad (Russia)
• Baltiysk (Russia)
• Ronneby (Sweden)
• Druskininkai (Lithuania)
• Liepāja (Latvia)
• Navahradak (Belarus)
• Ternopil (Ukraine)
• Compiègne (France)
• Trowbridge (United Kingdom)
• Coquimbo (Chile)
• Baoji (China)
• Tainan (Taiwan)

Famous residents

• Hans von Bodeck (1582-1658), diplomat and Chancellor of Brandenburg
• John Amos Comenius 1592-1670, educator
• Samuel Hartlib (ca. 1600-1662), teacher and scientist
• Christian Wernicke (1661-1725), epigrammist and diplomat
• Johann Friedrich Endersch (1705-1769), mathematician geographer
• Gottfried Achenwall (1719-1772), statistician
• Johann Heinrich Ammelung (1746-?), historian
• Wilhelm Baum (1799-?), doctor of medicine, first honorary burgher of Danzig
• Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht (1800-1876), lawyer, member of Göttinger Sieben
• Bruno Erhard Abegg (1803-1848), statesman of Königsberg
• Hieronymus Truhn (1811-?), composer
• Ferdinand Schichau (1814-1896), founder of the Schichau-Werke in Elbing and Danzig.
• Johann Ludwig Hinrichs (1818-1901), co-founder of the German Baptists
• John Prince-Smith (1809-1874), liberal economist and politician in Germany
• Hugo Weiss (1842-?), theologian
• Albrecht Wernich (1843-?), doctor of medicine
• Hermann Baumgart (1846-?), literary historian
• Franz Komnick (1857-?), founder of Komnick Maschine-, Automobile- and Agriculture Machine Companies in Elbing
• Max Georg Zimmermann (1861-?), art historian
• Georg Bessau (1884-?), doctor of medicine
• Max Reimann (1898-1977), president of the Communist Party of Germany
• Lutz Weltmann (1901-?), journalist, director of the Jewish Culture Foundation
• Hellmut Drews-Tychsen (1904 Elbing - 1973 near Wasserburg), author
• Ursula Karusseit (1939- ), actress
• Bernd Neumann (1942- ), Minister of Culture of Germany since 2005
• Ortwin Runde (1944- ), mayor of Hamburg from 1997 to 2001.
• Andrzej Sakson (1950- ), sociologist and director of the Western Institute
• Ewa Białołęcka (1967- ), fantasy writer

Notes

1. REGIONAL GLACIATION OF SOUTHERN & EASTERN BALTIC, Emporia State University Lecture #14, by James S. Aber.
2. Port Elbląg, site maintained by Polfracht Shipping Agency Ltd.
3. Elbląg, in: Kazimierz Rymut, Nazwy Miast Polski, Ossolineum, Wrocław 1987
4. Hubert Gurnowicz, Elbląg, in: Nazwy miast Pomorza Gdańskiego, Ossolineum, Wrocław 1978
5. 3.14
6. 3.15
7. Notes on the passage. Medieval Latin often used e for ae: Pogesanie for Pogesaniae, que for quae, etc. Recens mare is "the fresh-water sea". Castrum is citadel, not yet of brick.
8. Template:De icon Book: Merian-Chronik, Cöln 1737/8: Elbingische Geschichte Zu gleicher Zeit Danzigs Belagerung 1734... Ordentliches Tage-Register von den Unternehmungen der Russen und Sachsen by der Belagerung der Stadt Dantzig. Nachricht, Wie viele Personen das 1734te Jahr durch in der Stadt Dantzig getauffet/verehelichet und begraben worden...

See also

• EB - Polish beer produced by the Elbrewery Company
• List of cities and towns in East Prussia

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External links

Government websites

• Municipal website
• Gmina of Elbląg Template:Pl icon
• Elbląg County Template:Pl icon

Tourism and historical sites

• CastlesOfPoland.com
• Map of Warmia with Elbing from 1755
• Interactive map of Elbląg Template:Pl icon
• Tourism information
• Elbing Vocabulary, presentation by Dr. Letis Palmaitis
• Elbląg at Polfracht Shipping Agency Ltd.
• Elbing.de

Web portals

• Wirtualny Elbląg - portal Template:Pl icon
• Elbląska Gazeta Internetowa - portal Template:Pl icon
• Elblag24 - portal Template:Pl icon
• info.elblag.pl - portal Template:Pl icon
• Nocny Elbląg - portal Template:Pl icon
• Dziennik Elbląski newspaper Template:Pl icon

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