La Bataille d' Heilsberg 1807

War of the Fourth Coalition, and would remain in Prussian, then German hands, till 1945. During the Nazi era there, was a large radio transmitter in Heilsberg, which was destroyed by the retreating German army. After the end of the Second World War, the Heilsberg area was annexed by Poland and resettled mainly by Poles from the eastern part of pre-war Poland pushed out by Soviet forces. Heilsberg became Lidzbark Warminski. The town has become a center of a Polish cultural and literary renaissance.

The Restored Krasicki Orangery in Lidzbark Warminski

Lidzbark Warminski has, for a number of years (the last being in 2022), done a reenactment of the Battle of Heilsberg. The town has its Regional Chamber of Tradition, housing one of the better military museums in Central Europe. Lidzbark-Warminski is a member of the European Federation of Napoleonic Cities.

The Deutscher Orden today

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