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The town of Grudziądz (Graudenz) was given its charakter only after the Landmeister (regional ovelord) Meinhard von Querfurt had put an end to the wars between teh Teutonic Order and the ingigenous Prussians in 1283 and the area under the Teutonic order enjoyed a strong economic upturn. The urban settlement was founded at the foot of the Teutonic Order's castle in the North of the Culm Land near a ford over the River Vistula, a crossing Pomeralia to the Prussian country of Pomesania. Despite its favourable situation Grudziądz was of only minor importance alongside Toruń and Chełmno in the South and Kwidzyn and Dzierzgoń in the North. This becomes apparent from the relative shortness of the Charter, the verbatim content of which is known only from a German translation of the 15th century. Its directives - mainly concerning realty and jurisdiction - are compared with the Culm Charter since 1233/1251, a charter that was fundamental to legal practices in nearly all the towns in Prussia, and with the Charter of Radzyń, renewed in 1285, as exemplary for a town in teh Culm Land that failed to reach more than local importance