gm. Stegna, pow. nowodworski, woj. pomorskie

The village was founded by the Grand Master, Ludolf König in 1342 under the Chełmno law on 54 włókas. In 1565, NiedĽwiedzica, including the villages of Żuławki and Nowa Ko¶cielnica, was leased to Reinhold Krockow and in 1590, to Simon Bahr, who established an estate in its the southern section. Those three villages formed an estate with 175 włókas and 8 morgas of land. Mennonites appeared in the village in 1570 and initially belonged to the community "Wielkie Żuławy" in Gdańsk or Elbl±g. The community became semi-independent in 1726, and fully independent in 1740. Since 1809, the village had its own Elder and in 1830 began using the name Żuławki - NiedĽwiedzica (Fűrstenwerder - Bärwalde). The sources from 1776 mentioned Bestvader, Bruhn, Cronin, Dick, Ens, Esauł, Isaac, Claasen, Loewen, Nickel, Penner, and Reimer. In 1820, the village had 256 residents, including 69 Mennonites. The petition from 1868 was signed by Behrend, Cornelius, Heinrich and Jacob Epp, Joann Claasen, Abraham Kroecker, Peter Nickel, Peters, Peter Schulz, Peter Wieb, as well as Aron and Franz Wiens.

Village layout - linear and square village in a north - south line a centrally located cemetery and church, a Mennonite cemetery, and a House of Prayer in the southern section.

The cultural landscape has partially survived with a detectable spatial layout, a church surrounded by a functioning cemetery, and a lapidarium located in the old Mennonite cemetery (northern section). In 1980s, 5 out of 10 old homesteads had historical buildings; this number has not changed. Fragments of 3 Dutch homesteads, 7 wooden houses from the 19th century, a field layout, and a system of draining canals have survived.

No. 13 is an angular Dutch homestead situated in the northern section of the village, on the western side of the road, facing it with its gable. The homestead includes a house from 1825 and a higher, 2-storey, 20th century cowshed. The house has a concreted underpinning, a log structure - vertically boarded at the lower section and horizontally boarded in the upper section, a vertically boarded gable, and asbestos tile roofing. The eastern elevation has 3 axes and a two-level gable with 2 axes in the bottom section and a small, square window in the upper section. The southern elevation has 7 axes and a richly decorated entrance door in the 4th axis. The interior has been partially modified. A barn has been taken down.
No. 16 is a house from a Dutch homestead of probably longitudinal type situated in the central section of the village between roads, facing them with its ridge. The house and a cowshed have a common roof. The cowshed has been shortened and modified (a barn - demolished). The house dates from the 3rd quarter of the 19th century. It has a brick underpinning, a vertically boarded log structure with quoins covered by boards imitating Tuscan pilaster, a vertically boarded gable, and pantile roofing. The eastern/western elevation has 4 axes with an entrance in the 2nd axis. The southern elevation has been modified and currently has a single window in a 3-axial gable. The window is enclosed by two skylights topped by triangular shapes.
No. 19 is a (probably) longitudinal Dutch homestead situated in the southern section of the village, on the western side of the road, facing it with its gable. The homestead includes a house and a higher, brick, 2-storey, 20th-century cowshed. The house comprises two sections: a section from 1794 and a building, which was added perpendicularly in the 4th quarter of the 19th century (only a half has survived - modified). The older, wooden building has a concreted underpinning, a log structure, which is vertically boarded in the lower section and horizontally boarded in the upper section, and a vertically boarded gable. The roof is covered by sheet metal imitating tiles. The eastern elevation has 3 axes, a two-level gable (3 axes in the bottom section) with a single window enclosed narrow skylights. Above, there is a small window topped by a reverse ogee arch. The southern elevation has 7 axes and a richly decorated entrance door in the 4th axis. The interior has been partially modified. A barn has been taken down.
A wooden granary/coach house from the beginning of the 19th century is located in the southeastern section of the yard, facing the road with its ridge. The building has a vertically boarded, framed structure and a double-pitched roof covered by pantiles.
The Mennonite cemetery is located in the southern section of the village, on the western side of a road leading to the fields. It has a rectangular layout and 4 sections. There is a stone foundation of a church in the southeastern corner and an exhibition of gravestones (Peter Jantzen from 1850, Marie Enk, and Dyck) in the remaining area.
The old church was erected in 1768, rebuilt in 1829, and burned down in 1990. It was a wooden building with a log structure - quoins covered by boards imitating rustication, vertically boarded half-timbered gables, a queen post - purlin roof structure, and pantile roofing. The church had a rectangular layout; the interior had two rows of pillars with hanging galleries on the western, northern, and eastern sides. The section under the eastern gallery was walled off and had 3 rooms. The southern elevation had 7 axes, a double-leafed doors, and small windows above in the 4th and 6th axes from the east. The building had 2 large windows located between doors and low windows (in two levels) in the 1st, 2nd, and 7th axes. The eastern elevation had 4 axes at the lower level, an entrance in the 2nd axis from the south, 2 windows above, and 2 windows in the gable. The western elevation had 3 axes and 2 levels.