Editing Malbork (section)

===Modern period===
Within Poland, Malbork flourished thanks to the Polish grain and wood trade and craft development.<ref name=VM/> New suburbs were created due to lack of space within the defensive walls.<ref name=VM/> In the 17th century, [[Swedish Empire|Swedish]] invasions took place.<ref name=VM/> During the [[Great Northern War]] in 1710, half of the population died of a cholera epidemic.<ref name=VM/> After the wars, new inhabitants, including immigrants from [[Scotland]], settled in the town, mainly in the suburbs.<ref name=VM/> In 1740 Malbork ceased to be a fortress.<ref name=VM/>

[[File:Das Rathaus zu Marienburg Teichgräber.jpg|thumb|right|Town hall, circa 1839]]
It was annexed by the [[Kingdom of Prussia]] in the [[First Partition of Poland]] in 1772 and became part of the newly established province of [[West Prussia]] the following year. Prussians liquidated the municipal government and replaced it with new Prussian-appointed administration.<ref name=VM/> In the early 19th century, Prussian authorities acknowledged the town's Polish-speaking community, ensuring that priests could deliver the sermon in Polish.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Pommerellen - Preußen - Pomorze Gdahskie. Formen kollektiver Identität in einer deutsch-polnischen Region|author=Janusz Małłek|journal=Nordost-Archiv. Zeitschrift für Regionalgeschichte|year=1997|volume= 2}}</ref>
In 1807, during the [[Napoleonic Wars]], the French entered the town, and in 1812 the [[Grande Armée]] marched through the town [[French invasion of Russia|heading for Russia]].<ref name=VM/> [[Napoleon]] has visited the town in those years. In October–December 1831, various Polish cavalry and infantry units of the [[November Uprising]] stopped in the town and its environs on the way to their internment places,<ref>{{cite book|last=Kasparek|first=Norbert|editor-last=Katafiasz|editor-first=Tomasz|year=2014|title=Na tułaczym szlaku... Powstańcy Listopadowi na Pomorzu|language=pl|location=Koszalin|publisher=Muzeum w Koszalinie, Archiwum Państwowe w Koszalinie|pages=138, 140, 145|chapter=Żołnierze polscy w Prusach po upadku powstania listopadowego. Powroty do kraju i wyjazdy na emigrację}}</ref> and later on, one of the insurgents' main escape routes from partitioned Poland to the [[Great Emigration]] led through the town.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Umiński|first=Janusz|year=1998|title=Losy internowanych na Pomorzu żołnierzy powstania listopadowego|magazine=Jantarowe Szlaki|volume=4 |language=pl|issue=250|page=16}}</ref>

There were no [[World War I]] fights, however, the town felt the war's negative effects: the influx of refugees, inflation, unemployment, and food supply shortages.<ref name=VM/>

Under the terms of the [[Treaty of Versailles]] after [[World War I]], the inhabitants were asked in a [[East Prussian plebiscite|plebiscite on 11 July 1920]] whether they wanted to remain in Germany or join the newly re-established Poland. In the town of Marienburg, 9,641 votes were cast for Germany, 165 votes for Poland.<ref>[http://www.heimatkreis-marienburg.de/chronik.html marienburg.de] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225183321/http://www.heimatkreis-marienburg.de/chronik.html |date=2008-12-25 }}</ref> As a result, Marienburg was included in the [[Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder]] within the [[Weimar Germany|German]] Province of [[East Prussia]]. During the [[Weimar Germany|Weimar era]], Marienburg was located at the tripoint between Poland, Germany and the [[Free City of Danzig]].

The town was hit by an economic crisis following the end of World War I. After a brief recovery in the mid-1920s, the [[Great Depression]] was particularly severe in East Prussia. In January 1933, [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] and the [[Nazi Party]] came to power and immediately began eliminating political opponents, so that in the last semi-free elections of March 1933, 54% of Marienburg's votes went to the Nazis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.verwaltungsgeschichte.de/marienburg_op.html |title=Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte Westpreußen, Kreis Marienburg |publisher=Verwaltungsgeschichte.de |access-date=2009-05-05}}</ref> After the [[German invasion of Poland]] in September 1939, leaders of the Polish minority were arrested and sent to [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camps]].