Nowa Nieszawa (Dybów) in the late Middle Ages according to new research. The town on the border of countries, cultures and nations.
Nowa Nieszawa (Dybów) in the late Middle Ages according to new research. The town on the border of countries, cultures and nations.

Summary/Abstract: Nowa Nieszawa, chartered on the Vistula river on the Polish and Teutonic border after 1423, seems to have been a rapidly growing town in economic and political terms. Its location along an extremely important trade route as well as in the direct vicinity of the State of the Teutonic Order, caused that Nowa Nieszawa attracted enterprising individuals mostly merchants and craftsmen of various ethnic backgrounds as well as fugitives from the nearby Teutonic Order’s State. The functioning of Nowa Nieszawa is all the more worthy of attention as the position and importance of this town was formed in quite a constrained timeframe: the time span between granting the town with the charter and razing it to the ground took a little less than four decades. There is no doubt, that Nieszawa’s phenomenon is a result of favourable location the city on the border between the two countries.

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