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gm. Nowy Dwór Gdański, pow. nowodworski, woj. pomorskie

Until 1945 Fürstenau TK (Endersch, Schrötter), Dorff Forstenaw (Gotha),

The village was founded in 1332. The sources from 1776 mentioned the following surnames: Jantzen, Penner, and Stobbe. In 1820, the village had 524 residents, including 58 Mennonites. The 1868 petition was signed by Cornelius Claasen, Simon Dück, Jacob Penner, and Wiens.

Village layout - linear and square in a east - west axis with a church surrounded by a cemetery in the center, 4 large farms in the northern section of the village, and 3 farms in the southern section.

The cultural landscape is in good condition. The spatial layout is detectable with a St. Jadwiga the Queen Gothic church from the 14th century (tower dating from 1754), ca. 11 wooden buildings from the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, brick houses from the beginning of the 20th century, a wooden railway station from the end of the 19th century, 3 buildings of a typical Dutch layout (modified). The western section of the village was transformed by a former PGR housing development. The old homesteads often have modern buildings. Old chestnut trees have survived in the cemetery area, around the old homesteads, in the park located in the southwestern section of the village, and along the southern road (cobble stones). The cemetery in the eastern section has been devastated. The field layout on the northern side has been heavily transformed by the E-7 highway.

No. 8 is a house situated in the northwestern section of the village, on the northern side of the road, facing it with the ridge. It dates from the 1st quarter of the 19th century. Its vertically boarded structure rests on a concreted underpinning. The building has horizontally boarded gables, a plastered attic room in the southern slope of the roof, and asbestos tile roofing. The southern elevation has  7 axes and an entrance located between two windows (in the axis). There is a 3-axial attic room above the entrance with a semicircular small window in the gable. The western elevation has 4 axes with a secondary entrance in the 2nd axis from the north, a two-level gable with 4 axes at the bottom, two windows enclosed by quarter circular small windows, and a semicircular window above.
No. 25 is a homestead of the Dutch type situated on the southern side of the southern road, facing it with its ridge. The barn has been demolished and the cowshed, transformed. The house (modified) was erected in the 3rd quarter of the 19th century on a brick underpinning. It has a corner-notched log structure with quoins covered with boards, a vertically boarded gable, a rafter - collar beam roof structure, and asbestos tile roofing. The western elevation has 2 axes and a two-level gable with 4 axes in the bottom level, two windows enclosed by small rectangular windows, and a small semicircular window above. The northern elevation has 3 axes with an entrance and a brick porch in the 2nd axis.
No. 9 is a house from a Dutch homestead situated in the village center, facing the road with the ridge. It is separated from a cowshed (partially taken down) with a fire wall. The barn had been demolished earlier. There is a perpendicular wood/brick cowshed in the northern section of the village and a long barn (middle part has been demolished) situated next to the road. The house dates from the 4th quarter of the 19th century. It has a corner-notched structure with quoins covered by boards imitating Tuscan pilaster, a boarded gable and a pointing sill, a queen post - purlin roof structure with braces, asbestos roofing, and glazed-in, wooden porches on the southern and northern sides. The western elevation has 3 axes, 4-axial gable with two windows enclosed by quarter circular small windows and a semicircular small window above. The southern elevation has 6 axes and an entrance with a porch in the 3rd axis from the east. The building has a meticulous, decorative carpentry.
No. 29 is a house situated in the central section of the village, on the southern side of the road, facing it with the ridge. It has a stone underpinning, log structure with quoins covered by boards imitating Tuscan pilaster, half-timbered gables, an attic room in the northern roof slope (plaster brick filling), and a ceramic roof. The northern elevation 6 axes and an entrance located between two windows (in the axis). There is a 2-axial attic room above the entrance with a semicircular small window in the gable. The eastern elevation has 3 axes, two-level gable with 4 axes in the lower level, two windows enclosed by quarter circular small windows, and a semicircular window above.
No. 41 is a house located in the central section of the village, on the northern side of the road, facing it with its ridge. The building dates from the 1st quarter of the 19th century. It has a partially boarded (vertically) corner-notched log structure, vertically boarded gables, and a ceramic roof. The northern elevation has 5 axes with an entrance in the 2nd axis from the east. The eastern elevation has 3 axes, two-level gable with 4 axes in the lower level, two windows enclosed by narrow skylights, and a similar skylight above.

    
Stankiewicz, s. 61Lipińska, t. III, poz. 164,; AG, BF


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