I have just returned from Gdansk and I must say it has to be one of the nicest cities in the world. The food is amazing and the people are very friendly.
Nice to read your words: I was born and live in Gdańsk. :) Because of the nature sorrouding Gdańsk I say I live in paradise. :) All in the ciy: history, rivers, sea, forests - all what you wish and always something is going on here for those which are looking for anyhing, they find everything. :)
Gdansk is more than 1000 years old and was one of the three Royal Cities of Polish kingdom. Citizens of such cities could since 16th century elect Polish kings together with the nobles (only nobles, who, by the way, represented 10% of Polish society, could elect the king, and citizens of Gdansk, Cracow and Lvov). between 1776-1918 it was under Prussian, and than German, occupation .(124 years) after a joint attack and partition of whole Poland by Prussia , Russia and Austria. Gdansk, Torun and Poznań came than to Prussia, Warsaw first to Prussia than to Russia and Cracow and Lvov to Austria. Gdansk was built and developed mostly by Poles and Dutch (which left here a fantastic heritage), and some Germans. German people were met in all Polish cities at that time invited by Polish kings for their professions or just looking for better life and money. Today practically every Polish man and woman has some German ancestors, from more o less distant past, among Slavic (mostly), and some Dutch, Hunjgarian, Scottish, Swedish and even Italian ones. Its our history- western people for many ages were coming here looking for better life or as soldiers during wars, captured then and forced to live in empty parts of country in royal villages. They were polonizing very easy for good, then mixing - with no making any minorities - just joined Polish society. . Since 15-th century Gdansk was very rich and powerful town with a huge harbour and was a memeber of Hansa - the trade organization of rich Baltic cities. After partition and starting of Prussian/German rules, there was brutal germanization there (children in schools were bitten for speaking in Polish for example). And many Germans, which had nothing to do with Royal City of Gdansk came to germanize it more. After 1918 Gdansk became free city with Polish-German authorities. During the 2 WW War (1939-1945) there was extermination of Poles there (often sent to concentration camps). In 1945 Russian destroyed whole town to the dust. After the war Poles rebuilt Gdansk - all these beautiful medieval, renaissance and baroqe houses from the time of Polish-Lithuanian Uniion and than Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Noble Republic - Rzeczpospolita) are practically 60 years old (but there were a lot of documentation, pictures and photios, and even plans of architects in Polish archives, the same was with documents concerning the Old City in Warsaw, destroyed by Germans in 1944)).
+Jon Smith Hi Jon, I've been to all 3 and enjoyed them all. Search my channel as I've made several Krakow films and a Warsaw film. Price wise all are reasonable, good food and beer. Krakow is my favourite place, lots to see in the city centre and great nightlife / restaurants. A tip for Gdansk is to get the train to the coastal town of Sopot, a nice chilled out place, and the pier over the Baltic sea is quite nice - even in Winter! (just wrap up). Krakow centre is entirely walkable. There is a good railway themed restaurant just out of the city over the river, I don't remember the name but you could google it. Warsaw was more hustle and bustle, the cultural palace and the views from there being the stand out memory. Hope you have a great time, Poland is a good value and interesting country to visit.
Hello. I am really happy that someone appriciates our country and know our history. I hope Poland will have better opinion. If you are interested in to see Poland, I recommend you to see a few cities like Poznań, Wrocław, Kraków, Katowice, Sandomierz - really interesting city; Czersk is also interesting. If you want to get to know better our history, you should also see Wadowice ( the birthplace of Pope John Paul II, unless you're protestant ). Necessarily, go to see Auschwitz Birkenau.
''There was no single polish house when Poles annexed Danzig in 1918, nor in 1945'' - Before seperation there were many polish organisations existing within the city like polish bank "Bank Bałtycki" and from 1891 polish newspaper "Gazeta Gdańska" started its publishing activity with established two publishing houses and a printing press with poles constituting almost 5% of town's population by 1920 when it was declared a Free City under authority of the League of Nations not annexed
hello everyone. nice film. i want to know i m indian. is krakow good city for woking while studies.?? i mean one can get job while studying to survive??
Hello Shaggy, it is possible, although the wages may not be so high. There is actually a good Indian restaurant in Kraków, I can't remember the name but it's in the old town, you could find it using Google.
The more interesting point is: already in 13th century Gdansk had predominantly polish population of more than 2000 and in 1235 received Lübeck city rights not to become germanized but to improve its international prestige making it an independent trading city with self governing body with german traders slowly settling in. Only after 1308 when Pomerania was taken over by Teutons and Gdansk destroyed and population slaughtered by knights after rebelion started to be heavily germanized
Beautiful video. Thank you. I've heard that anything that might remind people that it was once 90% German-speaking -- writing on buildings, plaques, monuments -- has been scrubbed clean from the city. True?
Like in Wilno from polish style. Gdańsk was part of Poland like Vilnus was capital of Lithuania. Gdańsk had soo many polish symbols. Germany stolen. Learn about it
I wish I could be in there... İt is special place one of amazing Poland city. I will go there probably ,sometimes some people who make special the city.
For your information the earliest written mentions of the Gdansk or Danzig city comes from Czech Roman Catholic saint Adalbert of Prague in his Christian missions to the baltic he baptized the inhabitants of "urbs Gyddannyzc" (which is Gdansk now) in 997 and I dont know if you ever grabbed and read a history book in your life but you should know that Gyddannyzc is a name of a very slavic character with most of its vowel's surviving and now in modern use as Gdansk for its slavic roots
Well if You are interested about Gdansk, I introduce my facebook fanpage were I am puting some photos an articles abou city. Fell free to like ! :) When You will be comeing to Gdansk, please write to me, I can show You some places to make a new film or sth like this ;) facebook.com/pages/Visit-Gdansk/672176222880574
Would you like to visit Poland? Check out Bergiani School of Polish Language and Culture and the Summer Course in Masury :)We have sail boats, kayaks, lakes, forests and many more:)
+ Joe Biden I recommend east and south Poland and Kresy Wschodnie are currently no Polish! Not making this up! You destroyed Warsaw and union invests only in some lumps!
Already few centuries before the formation of unified polish state in 966 Slavs had inhabited Baltic sea regions from the Vistula delta all the way to the todays eastern parts of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg state by Polabian and Slovincians who were all slavs and were conquered by Saxons and Danes in 12th century and tribes were gradually Germanized and assimilated in the following centuries so Gdansk was established by slavic poles in 10th century since no germans lived in the area
Hanseatic League (also known as the Hanse or Hansa; Low German: Hanse, Dudesche Hanse, Latin: Hansa, Hansa Teutonica or Liga Hanseatica) - ofc the Hanse was german, so was Danzig.
Warszawa,Kraków,Łódź,Wrocław,Poznań,Gdańsk. So Gdańsk is the 6th largest city. But if you combine Gdańsk,Gdynia&Sopot it gets to 4th place. Next goes Szczecin, then probably Katowice and Lublin.
Im trying to explain you the subject not from prejudicial but from historical point of view and I have no negative sentiments towards germans. Germans couldnt establish city since no germans lived in the area since german started setlling in the Gdańsk Bay and surrounding areas only in 14th century when State of the Teutonic Order had conquered the area and pushed the Branderburgians out of the pomerania and took over the regions establishing its rule
After violent take-over in 1308 the period of heavy repressions started mainly aimed at polish populace especially after their support for polish king during Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War the city suffered the very worst at the hands of Teutons with germanization taking rapid tempo so Gdansk became a german by brute force and violent repressions than immigration. Switzerland has four languages with german being most dominant but its still not a german country just like Gdansk wasnt german
Awesome architecture and history. But beware there are still scams in around likea Miasto Anielow, a restaurant who lies on its menu and a city who doesnt enforce any protection for tourists.
Nothing of this is new to me. I do not really care if some slavic people had a tiny primitive village there 1016 years ago. Where is the point? Already 2000 years ago Goths lived there (which were eastern germanic people). Also something I do not care about. The more interesting point is: Since the Middle Ages the majority of people there were Germans. The was no single polish house when Poles annexed Danzig in 1918, nor in 1945. You may read about Alsace-Lorraine and compare both stories.
a nie irytowało by cię jak by niemiec powiedział że gdańsk jest niemieckim miastem?? Lwów jest teraz ukraińskim miastem tak jak Gdańsk jest teraz miastem polskim mimo iż kiedyś był niemiecki.
Been there several times. City is dirty and ugly. Traffic jam ! Many homeless people. Very expensive and everyone wants your money. People there are very rude and even in restaurants or shops they let you feel unwelcome. Do not waste your money.
Very beautiful city, really nice people I loved Gdansk - go visit
I have just returned from Gdansk and I must say it has to be one of the nicest cities in the world. The food is amazing and the people are very friendly.
Nice to read your words: I was born and live in Gdańsk. :) Because of the nature sorrouding Gdańsk I say I live in paradise. :) All in the ciy: history, rivers, sea, forests - all what you wish and always something is going on here for those which are looking for anyhing, they find everything. :)
Gdansk is more than 1000 years old and was one of the three Royal Cities of Polish kingdom. Citizens of such cities could since 16th century elect Polish kings together with the nobles (only nobles, who, by the way, represented 10% of Polish society, could elect the king, and citizens of Gdansk, Cracow and Lvov). between 1776-1918 it was under Prussian, and than German, occupation .(124 years) after a joint attack and partition of whole Poland by Prussia , Russia and Austria. Gdansk, Torun and Poznań came than to Prussia, Warsaw first to Prussia than to Russia and Cracow and Lvov to Austria. Gdansk was built and developed mostly by Poles and Dutch (which left here a fantastic heritage), and some Germans. German people were met in all Polish cities at that time invited by Polish kings for their professions or just looking for better life and money. Today practically every Polish man and woman has some German ancestors, from more o less distant past, among Slavic (mostly), and some Dutch, Hunjgarian, Scottish, Swedish and even Italian ones. Its our history- western people for many ages were coming here looking for better life or as soldiers during wars, captured then and forced to live in empty parts of country in royal villages. They were polonizing very easy for good, then mixing - with no making any minorities - just joined Polish society. . Since 15-th century Gdansk was very rich and powerful town with a huge harbour and was a memeber of Hansa - the trade organization of rich Baltic cities. After partition and starting of Prussian/German rules, there was brutal germanization there (children in schools were bitten for speaking in Polish for example). And many Germans, which had nothing to do with Royal City of Gdansk came to germanize it more. After 1918 Gdansk became free city with Polish-German authorities. During the 2 WW War (1939-1945) there was extermination of Poles there (often sent to concentration camps). In 1945 Russian destroyed whole town to the dust. After the war Poles rebuilt Gdansk - all these beautiful medieval, renaissance and baroqe houses from the time of Polish-Lithuanian Uniion and than Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Noble Republic - Rzeczpospolita) are practically 60 years old (but there were a lot of documentation, pictures and photios, and even plans of architects in Polish archives, the same was with documents concerning the Old City in Warsaw, destroyed by Germans in 1944)).
Poznan is older
Very nice video. It brings back great memories (I visited Gdansk in July 2006). It is worth to be visited.
Cool Vid !!!
greetings from germanay, Gdansk is a very nice city for visiting, a lot old architecture
Thanks, Gdansk is a beautiful city, make sure you spend a day at Sopot too.
Beatyful , thanks for charing .
Great footage. I'll be visiting Gdansk next month!
I am from the uk and will be visiting gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw and wroclaw over a 2 week period in November. Any tips, recommendations?
+Jon Smith Hi Jon, I've been to all 3 and enjoyed them all. Search my channel as I've made several Krakow films and a Warsaw film. Price wise all are reasonable, good food and beer. Krakow is my favourite place, lots to see in the city centre and great nightlife / restaurants. A tip for Gdansk is to get the train to the coastal town of Sopot, a nice chilled out place, and the pier over the Baltic sea is quite nice - even in Winter! (just wrap up). Krakow centre is entirely walkable. There is a good railway themed restaurant just out of the city over the river, I don't remember the name but you could google it. Warsaw was more hustle and bustle, the cultural palace and the views from there being the stand out memory. Hope you have a great time, Poland is a good value and interesting country to visit.
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Nice footage, good video, keep it up!
Wow beautiful city love to go there this summer
You really should go, Gdansk is an amazing place. Very scenic and lots of history.
Gdansk is a really lovely city.
Hello. I am really happy that someone appriciates our country and know our history. I hope Poland will have better opinion. If you are interested in to see Poland, I recommend you to see a few cities like Poznań, Wrocław, Kraków, Katowice, Sandomierz - really interesting city; Czersk is also interesting. If you want to get to know better our history, you should also see Wadowice ( the birthplace of Pope John Paul II, unless you're protestant ). Necessarily, go to see Auschwitz Birkenau.
''There was no single polish house when Poles annexed Danzig in 1918, nor in 1945'' - Before seperation there were many polish organisations existing within the city like polish bank "Bank Bałtycki" and from 1891 polish newspaper "Gazeta Gdańska" started its publishing activity with established two publishing houses and a printing press with poles constituting almost 5% of town's population by 1920 when it was declared a Free City under authority of the League of Nations not annexed
Excellent city, I loved the people, the food and the beer
Love this sity,my ancient home!!!
Gdansk is just a very beutiful city!
looks very lovely.
cheers from germany
Are you sure? Last time I checked, Krakow was 4th largest and Gdansk was 6th? Did it change again? It changes every year.
Yeah, Gdansk is a really lovely place.
beauty of homeland!
hello everyone. nice film. i want to know i m indian. is krakow good city for woking while studies.?? i mean one can get job while studying to survive??
Hello Shaggy, it is possible, although the wages may not be so high. There is actually a good Indian restaurant in Kraków, I can't remember the name but it's in the old town, you could find it using Google.
The more interesting point is: already in 13th century Gdansk had predominantly polish population of more than 2000 and in 1235 received Lübeck city rights not to become germanized but to improve its international prestige making it an independent trading city with self governing body with german traders slowly settling in. Only after 1308 when Pomerania was taken over by Teutons and Gdansk destroyed and population slaughtered by knights after rebelion started to be heavily germanized
Gdansk is the 4th largest, Warsaw, Krakow, Lodz, Gdansk
Beautiful video. Thank you. I've heard that anything that might remind people that it was once 90% German-speaking -- writing on buildings, plaques, monuments -- has been scrubbed clean from the city. True?
Like in Wilno from polish style. Gdańsk was part of Poland like Vilnus was capital of Lithuania. Gdańsk had soo many polish symbols. Germany stolen. Learn about it
I wish I could be in there... İt is special place one of amazing Poland city. I will go there probably ,sometimes some people who make special the city.
For your information the earliest written mentions of the Gdansk or Danzig city comes from Czech Roman Catholic saint Adalbert of Prague in his Christian missions to the baltic he baptized the inhabitants of "urbs Gyddannyzc" (which is Gdansk now) in 997 and I dont know if you ever grabbed and read a history book in your life but you should know that Gyddannyzc is a name of a very slavic character with most of its vowel's surviving and now in modern use as Gdansk for its slavic roots
Can you number 10 biggest cities in Poland? I think that Gdansk is 3rd biggest (Krakow 2,Warszawa 1) Am I wrong?
Nice film, fantastic city ;)
Thanks, I will return one day soon :)
Well if You are interested about Gdansk, I introduce my facebook fanpage were I am puting some photos an articles abou city. Fell free to like ! :) When You will be comeing to Gdansk, please write to me, I can show You some places to make a new film or sth like this ;) facebook.com/pages/Visit-Gdansk/672176222880574
I will check it out, and I will let you know, thanks again!
я там був,тут дійсно гарно.
I WOULD LOVE TO VISIT SOME DAY IN GDANSK. GÖTEBORG. ANTWERPEN..
Going to Gdansk in October/November.
cool i love it
Mariackastreet-the most beautiful street of the world
notice how there's not many people roaming about..........it's because they're all working over here
Would you like to visit Poland? Check out Bergiani School of Polish Language and Culture and the Summer Course in Masury :)We have sail boats, kayaks, lakes, forests and many more:)
Build everything in Poland.
+ Joe Biden I recommend east and south Poland and Kresy Wschodnie are currently no Polish! Not making this up! You destroyed Warsaw and union invests only in some lumps!
So build more in Warsaw.
joe biden no
nooooo,whattt?
Already few centuries before the formation of unified polish state in 966 Slavs had inhabited Baltic sea regions from the Vistula delta all the way to the todays eastern parts of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg state by Polabian and Slovincians who were all slavs and were conquered by Saxons and Danes in 12th century and tribes were gradually Germanized and assimilated in the following centuries so Gdansk was established by slavic poles in 10th century since no germans lived in the area
Some how that boat at 1:40 was attractive ...
Danzig looks better than I thought it would. May go one day.
Hanseatic League (also known as the Hanse or Hansa; Low German: Hanse, Dudesche Hanse, Latin: Hansa, Hansa Teutonica or Liga Hanseatica) - ofc the Hanse was german, so was Danzig.
what is Danzig?
AMA2309 its same as Gdansk, just the german name
Warszawa,Kraków,Łódź,Wrocław,Poznań,Gdańsk. So Gdańsk is the 6th largest city. But if you combine Gdańsk,Gdynia&Sopot it gets to 4th place. Next goes Szczecin, then probably Katowice and Lublin.
Oujeee, Duffman is here!
eu quero morar ai!👍
Im trying to explain you the subject not from prejudicial but from historical point of view and I have no negative sentiments towards germans. Germans couldnt establish city since no germans lived in the area since german started setlling in the Gdańsk Bay and surrounding areas only in 14th century when State of the Teutonic Order had conquered the area and pushed the Branderburgians out of the pomerania and took over the regions establishing its rule
If you combine Katowice, Bytom, Swietochlowice, Zabrze, Ruda... then Katowice has up to 3,5 mln ppl.
Thank you, if you check my channel you will also find films from Sopot, Warsaw, Krakow and Auschwitz.
After violent take-over in 1308 the period of heavy repressions started mainly aimed at polish populace especially after their support for polish king during Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War the city suffered the very worst at the hands of Teutons with germanization taking rapid tempo so Gdansk became a german by brute force and violent repressions than immigration. Switzerland has four languages with german being most dominant but its still not a german country just like Gdansk wasnt german
I WOULD LOVE TO TRAVVELED ALSO IN POLAND
Saudações Ilustre Moss!
Awesome architecture and history. But beware there are still scams in around likea Miasto Anielow, a restaurant who lies on its menu and a city who doesnt enforce any protection for tourists.
+freedomisfromtruth lol
1 st- Warsaw, 2nd - Krakow, 3rd - Lodz, 4th - Wroclaw, 5th - Poznan, 6th - Gdansk
no to mam zaszczyt mieszkać w Polsce xD
Im from in Gdansk.. lol.. ;D
Danzig is the old German name for what is now Gdansk.
Historia sie Niemcom klania.Gdansk byl wolnym miaste
m.
Gdańsk was founded and bulid by Polish king Mieszko I.Good Game u all German Nationalist :)
Yes i know it's annoying it's like polish Nationalist claiming that Vilnius belongs to Poland. =DD
onlysleeping66 Actually Vilnus belongs to Lithuana,it was Polish only in 1920-1939.The only city that is our is Lviv and places around it
Nice to hear that and do not pay attention to these Germans trolls.
I agree. Vilnius was and is Lithuania. But only sad think is that Lithuanians often opressed Poles who are living in the city and region.
its like boring
All guys who like to vote down my comments are free to name one single high ranking member of the Hanse that wasn't german.
Danzig in West Prussia.
Gdańsk in Eastern Pomerania (Pomorze)
Nothing of this is new to me. I do not really care if some slavic people had a tiny primitive village there 1016 years ago. Where is the point? Already 2000 years ago Goths lived there (which were eastern germanic people). Also something I do not care about. The more interesting point is: Since the Middle Ages the majority of people there were Germans. The was no single polish house when Poles annexed Danzig in 1918, nor in 1945. You may read about Alsace-Lorraine and compare both stories.
a nie irytowało by cię jak by niemiec powiedział że gdańsk jest niemieckim miastem?? Lwów jest teraz ukraińskim miastem tak jak Gdańsk jest teraz miastem polskim mimo iż kiedyś był niemiecki.
Nice German city.
Björn Asmussen polish city
Björn Asmussen thats polish city you dumbass , look on todays map x'D
Vays It's current inhabitants are irrelevant. It's a very German city and it resembles German culture, not Polish.
it was deal with it
Vays yeah, still false advertising here. It's as if I advertised an Intel i7 and said 'I invented it'
Gdansk nie byl ani niemiecki, ani polski. Gdansk nalezal do Hanzy i byl wolnym, niezaleznym miastem/panstwem.
German City
Been there several times.
City is dirty and ugly. Traffic jam !
Many homeless people.
Very expensive and everyone wants your money. People there are very rude and even in restaurants or shops they let you feel unwelcome.
Do not waste your money.
WELL , DO NOT COME ANY MORE , LOL IF YOU DO NOT LIKE IT !!!!!!!!!!
Well I went there because I thought I should give the city an other chance. But don't worry. Will never go there ever again.
EVER!