Teutonic Knights move capital to Marienburg
1309
Grand Master Siegfried von Feuchtwangen shifted the Order's headquarters from Venice to the brick fortress on the Nogat, consolidating a Baltic state built on crusade against pagan Prussians. Marienburg would grow into Europe's largest brick castle, its vast halls heated by hypocaust systems, and govern a theocratic realm that rivaled any kingdom around the Baltic.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.