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Pre-war Gdańsk, perfectly combining the features of a charming city with a powerful centre of port industry, in April 1945 was turned into 3 million cubic metres of debris by the Soviet army. Slowly, thanks to the persistence of new settlers – mainly from former Polish lands that after the war were annexed into the Soviet Union – from this sea of ruins again began to emerge the former shape of the city.

The unique architectural style “Brick Gothic“ is a phenomenon, which is not only omnipresent along the coasts of the Baltic Sea, but also throughout the surrounding inland regions.