gm. Cedry Wielkie, pow. gdański, woj. pomorskie

Kiezmark was an old Slavic settlement. It was granted the Chełmno rights in 1349 by the Grand Master Has Dusemer. Between 1454 and 1793 (second partition of Poland) it belonged to the city of Gdańsk. In 1820, the village had 481 residents including 6 Mennonites.

Village layout - linear village in the southern section with a church surrounded by a cemetery between the street and the Vistula flood bank and marsh row village/linear village in the northern section.

The village was divided into two sections by the highway no. 7 and a high embankment leading to the bridge across the Vistula. The northern section of the village with dispersed buildings has partially survived. The cultural landscape of the southern section is in better condition. In addition to a half-timbered parish church from 1727 surrounded by a cemetery with old trees and several preserved gravestones, there are 7 wooden and 5 masonry historical buildings.

No. 33 (39) is a house situated on the western side of the road across from the church. It was erected in 1844 on a stone underpinning. The building has a corner-notched log structure with covered quoins and vertically boarded gables. The interior has a two-bay layout with wider eastern bay, the large room in the southeastern corner, a centrally located black kitchen, and a hallway separating the rooms in the northern section of the house. The ridge elevation has 6 axes with an entrance in the 3rd axis from the south. The gable elevation has 3 axes, 2-axial gable, and a semicircular skylight in the finial. The building is in very poor condition.
No. 21 is a former inn situated on the Vistula flood bank, facing the road running on the flood bank with its ridge. The building was erected ca. 1880-90. It is a one-storey building with a pointing sill. The building has a vertically boarded log structure, a 5-axial ridge elevation with a centrally located entrance. The gable elevation has 3 axes, a two-level gable with two windows (lower section) enclosed by triangular small windows, two narrow windows enclosed by triangular shapes above, wind ties with a pazur, and notched purlin ends resting on a notched support.
No. 59 is a house from a Dutch homestead located in the northeastern section of the colony, on the northern side of the road facing it with a ridge. Outbuildings have been demolished. The house dates from the mid 1800s. It has a log structure with covered quoins, vertically boarded gables, and a 6-axial ridge elevation with an entrance in the 3rd axis from the east. The gable elevation has 2 axes and a 3-axial gable with a rectangular window enclosed by small rectangular windows. The building is in poor condition.
No. 49 is a house situated in the northern section of the colony, on the eastern side of the road, facing it with its ridge. It is a wooden 1.5-storey building dating from ca. 1880. It rests on a high stone underpinning. The ground floor and an attic room have a corner-notched log structure with quoins covered by boards imitating pilaster, while the pointing sill (horizontal planking) and gables (vertical planking) have a half-timbered structure. The building has a wooden porch in front of the entrance and a queen post - collar tie roof structure with an angle brace, and a ceramic roof. The interior has a two-bay layout (uneven tracts) with a centrally located black kitchen, an L-shaped hallway, which separates 3 rooms in the northern part of the house. The gable elevation has 4 axes, a two-level gable with two rectangular windows enclosed by two rectangular skylights bound by triangular shapes, and two narrow windows with triangular shapes above. The western elevation has 7 axes and a shallow 3-axial projection with a centrally located entrance with a porch. The porch has a rich fretwork decoration. The pointing sill has small rectangular windows in the axis of the ground floor windows. There are also two windows in the attic room. The building is richly decorated with carved planking, a cornice, notched beams, and original window and door frames. There also is an old granary/coach house in the yard.