Nowy Staw
Nowy Staw (; ) is a small town in northern Poland on the Święta river in the Żuławy region, with 3 896 inhabitants (2004). Situated in Malbork County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, it was previously assigned to Elbląg Voivodeship (1975–1998). City rights were applied in 1345. The name of the town means "New Pond". History. The oldest part of Nowy Staw is the formerly independent village of Stawiec, north of the town. It was founded in 1316 by the Teutonic Order. In 1409, the Teutonic Knights started producing black gunpowder in the town, and a few decades later  in the middle of the fifteenth century merchants from nearby Danzig (Gdańsk) erected an Oil mill. From 1466 on it was part of the Polish Malbork Voivodeship. During the various Polish–Swedish wars the town was occupied and plundered several times. During the eighteenth century a new district, the "New town" grew up between the existing settlement and the Tuja river. Since that time urban development has taken place in a southerly direction along the right bank of the river. With the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the town, as Neuteich was annexed by Prussia and had belonged to  the Marienburg district in the Prussian Province of West Prussia, which had belonged to the German Reich since 1871. In 1886, the railway line from Szymankowo (Simonsdorf) via Nowy Staw (Neuteich) to Nowy Dwór Gdański (Tiegenhof) was put into operation. In 1920, as a consequence of the Treaty of Versailles, Neuteich was ceded by Germany to the Free City of Danzig, within which it became part of the district of Großes Werder. With the capture of the Free City of Danzig at the beginning of World War II in 1939, Neuteich came under German rule. On March 11, 1945 it  was captured by the Red Army and was later placed under Polish administration. In the following years, the remaining German population was expelled and the town was repopulated by Poles. Architecture. Main town buildings: External links.