3. The history of Golub dates back to the 8th
century. There was a first settlement then on
the River Drwęca. It was captured in 1231 by a
few Teutonic troops.
Golub was a bridge-head situated at the
borderline of the Chełmińska Land and
it was thought to protect against
the Prussian assaults.
4. The village of
Wisław, Bishop
Golub was
of Włocławek
mentioned in
granted Golub to
written sources
the Teutonic
for the first time
Order
(as villa Golube)
1254 18. IV 1293
1260 1280
1250 1270 1290
1254 1293 1295
1296
Teutonic
Golub with its vicinity was Golub was The Teutonic
earth
handed over to Wolimir, granted civic knights started
and timber
Bishop of Włocławek by rights to build a castle
fortifications
the Commander of
were built
Dzierzgoń, Konrad Stange
5. The Teutonic Knights erected a castle
in the years 1296-1306
King Władysław
Łokietek with
Lithuanian troops
Foundation of
tried to seize the
the Teutonic
castle – in vain
town
1300 1330 − 1332
1310 1330
1340
1320
1300
1306 2.02. 1306 1300 − 1320 1320 − 1350
The first and Commander Presbitery Building
main phase of von Sack of Golub of the
erecting a played host church nave of
brick castle to Siemowit, was built Golub
was completed Duke of church
Dobrzyń
6. 1409-1411 – The great Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War
During battle of
The First Treaty
Grunwald died,
of Toruń returned
among others,
the fortress and
Mikołaj de Roder,
town to
Commander
the Teutons
of Golub
1411
1410
1410 1430
1420 1440
1400
1421
1410
All the town rights
King Vladislaus
were confirmed by
Jagellon’s
Grand Master
troops seized
Michael
Golub
Kuchmeister von
Sternberg
7. The War of Golub
King Władysław Jagiełło captured the
town and laid siege to the fortress by
cannonfire. The siege and defense
were described by Jan Długosz in his
Annals.
20 − 26. 08. 1422
1410 1430
1420 1440
1400
He writes that the Teutons and Silesian regulars
who helped them were forced to burn down the
buildings behind the outer defensive walls and
kill the horses kept there. The defense of the
high castle, which was bombarded by 14
cannons, also proved fruitless. The commander
and 50 Teutonic knights fell, and 40 Silesian
soldiers were taken prisoners.
8. 1454-1466 The Thirteen Years' War
Golub became part
of Poland as
The rule of a result of
Golub was chosen
commanders a peace treaty
to be the seat of
ended signed in Toruń
royal starosts
1454 1456 1466
1450 1470
1460
1440
1455 1460
Grot of Teutonic mercaneries took over
Ostrów was the town by deceit but the castle
the castle’s was defended for 2 years by a
leaseholder Czech troop loyal to the king and
commanded by Andrzej
Puszkarz
9. By the order of the Starosta Stanisław
king Sigismund I the Kostka of Sztemberg
Old the castle was (Szymbark) initialized
renovated by bishop the renovation of the
Konopacki castle
1511 1527
1510 1530 1540
1540
1500 1520
1524
For nearly 100 years the
Golub Starosty is held by the
Kostka family
10. The town was handed to Jan Kostka,
later the voivode of Sandomierz,
a senator, a candidate for the throne
of Poland, the castellan of Gdańsk,
Grand Treasurer of Prussia, steward
Jerzy Kostka became the
of Malbork and secretary to the King
Golub starost
Sigismund II Augustus
1594
1555
1560 1580 1600
1590
1550 1570
1557
On the strength of a
family contract
Golub is passed to
Krzysztof Kostka
11. Anna Vasa was an educated and
intelligent woman, knew six
Princess Anna Vasa,
languages and took up many
the sister of King
scientific fields, eg botanics. She
Sigismund III, ruled
grew many rare plants in castle
the Golub castle
garden and was the first to bring
1611 - 1625 to Poland and grow... tobacco.
1610 1630
1620 1640
1600
1616 - 1623
The meticulous reconstruction
changed the Gothic walls into
late-Renaissance facades: the
walls were topped with an attic,
the square towers were replaced by
rounded ones, and the elevations
got new rectangular windows
12. 1626 - 1629
Polish-Swedish War
The starosty was
Princess The first Swedish given to princess
Anna Vasa invasion of the Anna Catherine
was dead castle Constance
6. 02. 1625 1626 1632 – 1638
1630 1650
1640 1660
1620
1623 1625 – 1631
King The castle remained in
Sigismund women’s hands – Golub
III Vasa Starosty was assumed by
stayed in Queen Constance of
Golub Austria
13. 1655-1660
Polish-Swedish War
Swedes occupy Golub was
Golub for 2 years. liberated by an
The town was allied imperial
damaged. army.
11. 1655 13. 10. 1657
1650 1670
1660
1640
1638 – 1645
The starosty was
passed into the
A town map
hands of Queen
of Golub by
Cecilia Renata –
M. Haftka,
the wife of
1655
Władysław IV Vasa
14. The church tower
was destroyed in a
thunderstorm
1689
Golub from 1774
1690 1710
1720
1680 1700
1700 – 1721
1684
The Great
Dobrzyń was granted some Northern War
privileges and the name of 1716
the Suburbs of Golub by The town was
Zygmunt Działyński, the damaged
voivode of Kalisz
15. The Seven Years' War
A destruction of the town and
the impoverishment of its
citizens followed due to
recession, robberies and war
contributions.
1756–1763
1730 1750
1720 1740 1760
15. 06. 1721 6. 08. 1740
Jakub Działyński confirms Marcin Działyński
also confirms the
the privileges of
privileges of
Przedmieście Golubskie
Dobrzyń.
(Suburb of Golub)
and endows the settlement
with new land.
16. A ceremonial
The First Partition consecration of the
Golub included in Protestant church with
Prussia. the participation of 800
A Protestant
17. 09. 1772 the colonists and a military
congregation
town’s comissar orchetsra from Toruń
was established
was von Gaudi
18. 01. 1784
1. 11. 1780
1772
1780 1800
1790 1810
1770
1782 1789
The congregation Count Ignacy Działyński
set about to gives the settlement
building its Przedmieście Golubskie
church, funded by Dobrzyń civic rights
King Frederick II and calls it Dobrzyń, presenting
of Prussia the town with his family crest
17. The Second
The march of
Partition – Drwęca became
Napoleon
both towns a natural border Prussian
Bonaparte’s
under between Prussia administration
troops
Prussian rule and Russia took over Golub
1793 23. 06. 1815
1812 – 1813 May 1815
1800 1820
1810 1830
1790
1795 1806 – 1807 1807 – 1815 14. 11. 1815
The Third Antoni Wybranicki
The Napoleonic Golub and
Partition becomes the owner
army was Dobrzyń
of Dobrzyń
stationed in remained part
Golub of the Duchy of
Warsaw
18. Cholera
epidemic in
Golub
1831
Golub, 2nd half of the 19th c.
1830 1850
1860
1820 1840
1857
1823 – 1827 1833 1853
Fire in Dobrzyń
Antoni Wybraniecki, Flood in Cholera
– a large square
owner of a nearby estate Golub epidemic in
was marked out
in Sokołów, helps Golub
in front of the
financially to build the
church
church in Dobrzyń
19. Dobrzyń larger than Golub –
with 201 houses and
3665 citizens: 1212 Poles,
94 Germans and 2359 Jews,
School building
whereas Golub had
is built
2893 citizens
1899
1880
1870 1890
1880
1860 1900
1893
25. 07. 1886
A new church Fire consumed
tower was almost all northern
erected part of Golub
in Dobrzyń
20. Emperor Wilhelm
II, fond of Teutonic
architecture, found
the means to
renovate the castle
1907
1910 1930
1920
1900 1931
1909 28. 07. 1914
Outbreak of WW I
A protestant
German soldiers from
church was
Golub broke the gate
built in
on the bridge over the
Golub
Drwęca and entered
Dobrzyń
21. Crossing the river,
Golub was
the army marched
attacked by
into Golub and was
the Red
enthusiastically
Army
greeted by its citizens
17. 01. 1920 August 1920
1930
1910
1920 1931
16. 01. 1920 January 1920
General Józef The town
Haller’s Blue was finally
Army marched returned to
into Dobrzyń Poland
22. 1938
Old Dobrzyn City Map
1933 1935 1937
1934
1932 1936 1938
Dobrzyń before WW II
1937
Renovation of the
roof and some
rooms for the
museum were
carried out at the
castle
23. 1939 – 1945
The Nazi Occupation, the mass murder of Jews in Golub and Dobrzyń,
the ruin of the Polish intelligenstia, the forcible enrolment
on German People’s List (a. 90% of the town’s citizens)
The German police arrested 20 Polish citizens of Dobrzyń
and about 230-260 Jews and deported them to Bydgoszcz.
The Jews of Dobrzyń were shot a few weeks later.
14. 09. 1939
1943
1939 1941
1938 1940 1942
Autumn 1939 November 1939
About 250 citizens of Another transport of
Dobrzyń and Golub were Jews from Golub and
imprisoned, including all Dobrzyń – they died,
priests of both parishes among others,
in death camps and the
Warsaw Ghetto
24. German invaders
Three synagogues (two
destroyed
Towns Golub
in Dobrzyń), the former
numerous houses
i Dobrzyń
school and Jewish bath
in the Jewish
were liberated
were taken apart
part of Dobrzyń
1939-1942 1943-1944 23 stycznia 1945
1945
1941 1943
1940 1942 1944
1941–1944
A training camp
was organised
for Hitlerjugend
at the castle
25. Golub-Dobrzyń Reconstruction
was the seat of works at the Golub
the powiat Castle were executed
01.01.1956 – 31.05.1975 1959 – 1969
1950 1970
1960 1980
1945
1948 1962
05.05.1951
A public A school building
Golub and
library was (presently
Dobrzyń were
opened in housing
united to make
Golub School Complex
one city
No. 1) was
opened
26. Polish President
Aleksander
Building a Kwaśniewski
stayed
2nd bridge
in Golub-
over the
Dobrzyń
Drwęca
07.2001
1986-1988
1980 2000
1970 2010
1990
05.2003
1. 01. 1990
The Powiat of New Fire
Golub- Brigade
Dobrzyń was Headquarters
established was opened