Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Gdansk definitely was never a "German" city.
Its Slavonic name is original,
and Slavonic inhabitants of that city has been always calling it that way.
That Germans living there used different name doesn't matter much
After having seen Gdansk, I cannot agree with this description. The
old town's entire architecture and purpose as a trading port of the
Teutonic Orden, with its monopoly on the amber trade, is what I would
describe as "German". This includes the St. Mary church, inspired
directly from the brick castle of Marienburg / Malbork.
I cannot claim to be an expert on anything Polish or German, but my
disagreement should be interpreted as an indication of an area where
Wikipedia should provide more background in the form of verifiable
facts rather than assertions that it "was never a German city". Such
assertions only serve to disqualify those who utter them.
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