The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork is an architecturally influential brick castle complex built by the Teutonic Knights. Malbork Castle was founded by the Teutonic Order after the conquest of Old Prussia. Its main purpose was to strengthen their own control of the area following the Order's 1274 suppression of the Great Prussian Uprising of the Baltic tribes.Malbork (or Marienburg in German) was built from the late 13th century by the Knights, who controlled at that time the Baltic co