Salvaging the western wing of the Middle Castle in Malbork, threatened with damage, was one of the most significant tasks facing the Malbork Museum from the time it opened in 1961. The matter at stake concerned the most valuable fragment of the fortress on the Nogat river, containing i. a. the Great Refectory — a spacious and vaulted hall from the mid-fourteenth century and one of the largest and most beautiful interiors of medieval Europe. The article recalls attempts to protect the endangered wing as well as its realization conducted in accordance with the conception proposed by dr. Tomasz Najder (a graduate of the Gdańsk Polytechnic) from the Swedish firm STABILATOR AB. The authors of the technical documentation were: prof. Henryk Stille and dr. Sture Eresund form the SKANSKA TEKNIK AB design office in Stockholm who co-worked with dr. Zenon Duda from the Mining-Metallurgical Academy in Cracow who is the technical consultant of the Castle Museum. The conception presumed supporting the walls of the western wing on a number of special micropoles inserted some 12 meters deep into the soil. In the opinion of numerous experts dealing with the protection of monuments, this particular task was the most difficult conservation problem in Poland during the recent past. Today, when measurements show a stabilization of the historical walls of the western wing, we can say with satisfaction that after 130 years i. e. from the first conscious attempt at halting devastation, it has been possible to salvage this magnificent monument of the architecture of the past.
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