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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Szymbark
| settlement_type = Village
| total_type =  
| image_skyline = Szymbark3(js).jpg
| image_caption = [[Teutonic Knights]] castle ruin
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship|Warmian-Masurian]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Iława County|Iława]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Iława|Iława]]
| coordinates = {{coord|53|38|54|N|19|28|58|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| elevation_m =
| population_total = 395
| registration_plate = NIL
| blank_name_sec2 = [[Voivodeship road]]s
| blank_info_sec2 = [[File:DW521-PL.svg|32px]]
}}
'''Szymbark''' ({{IPA|pl|ˈʂɨmbark|lang}}) is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Iława]], within [[Iława County]], [[Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship]], in northern [[Poland]].<ref name="TERYT">{{cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa |title=Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) |date=2008-06-01 |language=pl}}</ref> It lies approximately {{convert|8|km|mi|0}} north-west of [[Iława]] and {{convert|69|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} west of the regional capital [[Olsztyn]]. The village is located on the northern shore of Szymbarskie Lake.

== The castle ==
The construction of the castle began in 1301.<ref>{{cite book|title=Landschlösser und Gutshäuser in Ostpreussen|first1=Carl|last1= von Lorck|publisher=Flechsig|year=1992|isbn=978-3-8035-1200-0|language=de}}</ref> It was built by the [[Teutonic Order]] as a summer residence of the [[Bishop of Pomesania]]. A Latin inscription above the main gate (''Hec Porta Constructa Est Anno Domini MCCCLXXXVI Tempore Fratris Henrici De Skarlin Prepoziti'') dates back to 1386 and mentions brother Henry of [[Skarlin]] as constructor.<ref name=szymb>[http://www.zamkipolskie.com/szymb/szymb.html The history of Szymbark Castle at zamkipolskie.pl]{{in lang|pl}}</ref> Sometimes he is described as the founder of the castle.<ref name=szymb/> The castle became property of the last Catholic and first Lutheran Bishop of Pomesania, Georg von Polentz, after the secularization of the Order. In 1699 it was bought by Ernst Graf [[Finck von Finckenstein]] and remained property of the Finckenstein family until {{nowrap|1945.<ref>{{cite book|title=Burgen im Deutschordensstaat Preussen (Zamki państwa krzyżackiego w dawnych Prusach. Powiśłe, Warmia, Mazury)|first1=Małgorzata|last1= Jackiewicz-Garniec|first2= Mirosław|last2=Garniec|publisher=Arta|year=2007|isbn= 978-83-912840-6-3|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sTr2hHTtK9wC&q=sch%C3%B6nberg+szymbark&pg=PA38|title=Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights|first1=Stephen |last1= Turnbull|first2=Peter |last2=Dennis|publisher=Osprey Publ.|year=2003|isbn= 9781841765570|page=38}}</ref>}}

In April 1945, about three month after the conquest by the Soviet Union, and again in 1947 the castle was set on fire and completely destroyed.<ref>{{cite book|title=Burg Schönberg in Westpreussen|first1=Renate|last1= Finck von Finckenstein|publisher=Starke|year=2000|isbn= 978-3-7980-0565-5|language=de}}</ref> The ruins were used for the 1996 movie [[The Ogre (1996 film)|The Ogre]] by [[Volker Schlöndorff]] with [[John Malkovich]] in the title role.

<gallery>
File:Szymbark, zamek, pierzeja wschodnia.jpg|The south-east flank and main gate
File:Szymbark, zamek, pierzeja południowa.jpg|The south view
File:Szymbark5(js).jpg|The north-west tower
File:Szymbark4(js).jpg|The north-east tower
</gallery>

==Sports==
The local [[Association football|football]] club is LZS Zamek Szymbark. It competes in the lower leagues.

==Notable residents==
*[[Katharina Dorothea Finck von Finckenstein]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://mazuryzachodnie.blogspot.com/2009/01/szlakiem-filmowym-john-malkovich-w.html Szymbark and John Malkovich] {{in lang|pl}}
* [http://mazuryzachodnie.blogspot.com/2009/08/szlakiem-starych-cmentarzy-cz-2.html Szlakiem starych cmentarzy na Mazurach Zachodnich] {{in lang|pl}}
* [http://westpreussen.we.funpic.de/schoenberg/schoenberg3/schoenberg_teil3.htm pre-war pictures] {{in lang|de}}
* [http://www.zlb.de/digitalesammlungen/SammlungDuncker/11/652%20Schoenberg.pdf 19th century view] {{in lang|de}}

{{Gmina Iława}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Populated lakeshore places in Poland]]
[[Category:Villages in Iława County]]

Szymbark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship - Revision history

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