The city of Malbork in northern Poland treasures its history. Each year for over a decade it has staged a re-enactment of a famed 1410 siege for its majestic red brick Malbork Castle. After the legendary victory of a Polish-Lithuanian army over the German Teutonic Knights at Grunwald earlier that year, troops of the Polish king Wladyslaw Jagiello tried but failed to seize the castle, then the European headquarters of the powerful Teutonic Order.