Zakroczym

Name

History

• c. 1155 - first mention of the gord and settlement of Zakroczym, property of Benedictine Monastery from Mogilno,
• 8 June 1335. Mazovian dukes Siemowit II and Trojden I renew here truce with Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Dietrich von Altenburg,
• 1374 - Zakroczym becomes capital of a land, part of Mazovian Voivodeship, and remains so until 1795,
• 1422 - Duke of Mazovia Janusz I of Warsaw grant town charter to Zakroczym,
• 1656-1657 - Zakroczym is occupied by Swedish forces. The town is partially destroyed,
• 1709 - Zakroczym is burned by Swedish troops during the Great Northern War,
• 1757 - construction of a monastery Order of Friars Minor Capuchin begins,
• 1793 - the town is seized by the Russians,
• 1795 - Zakroczym becomes part of the Kingdom of Prussia,
• 1806 - Napoleon's forces cross the Vistula near Zakroczym, before the Battle of Pultusk,
• 1815 - Zakroczym becomes part of Congress Poland,
• 1831 - after Russian capture of Warsaw, meetings of Polish government and Sejm take place at the monastery,
• 1883-1888 - construction of Fort 1 Zakroczym, first ring of fortifications of the Modlin Fortress,
• 20 August 1915 - Russian garrison of the fortress capitulates to Germans,
• 10-28 September 1939 - Battle of Modlin,
• 28 September 1939 - Massacre in Zakroczym, Wehrmacht soldiers kill around 600 civilians and prisoners of war by firing squad,
• November 1941 - Last remaining Jews deported by the Nazis to the Ghetto at Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki,
• 1944 - Germans create a transit camp for 30,000 residents of Warsaw, deported from the city after the Warsaw Uprising,
• 1945 - as a result of World War Two, 78% of the town is destroyed.

  Sights

• parish church, rebuilt in 1949. In its northern and southern walls there are Swedish cannonballs,
• Baroque Capuchin church and monastery,
• a monument dedicated to rebels of 1830 and 1863, and to victims of the war,
• castle hill, with a 19th-century manor house, built on 15th-century foundations. Original manor house was built before 1422 by Mazovian dukes,
• traces of an 11th-century gord, located northeast of town, on a high bank of the Vistula. The gord, first mentioned in 1065, was burned in late 13th century, and later rebuilt.
• Fort Nr. 1 Zakroczym.