gm. Elbląg, pow. elbląski, woj. warmińsko - mazurskie

In the Teutonic Order period, the area of the later village of Raczki was covered by a forest, which belonged to the Teutonic Order castle in Elbląg. In 1451, the lands that belonged to the castle were leased to Nowe Miasto, which paid rent from 16 włókas and 5.5 morgas. After the conclusion of the Toruń peace treaty, the area was incorporated into the Elbląg estate. In 1776, the village was inhabited by 24 Mennonites - the families Dyck, Harm, Holtzrichter, Riesen, and Wiebe. At the beginning of the 20th century, the village had 563 ha, 379 residents, and 3 Mennonite families - Ewent, Funk, and Holtzrichter.

Village layout - a marsh row village on both sides of a north-south road located on a causeway between the Tyna and Balewka rivers. A map from 1911 shows ca. 25 homesteads in that area and 2 by the Drużna flood bank.

The cultural landscape is rapidly disappearing. Basically, one Dutch homestead and several others in fragments have survived. New buildings began to appear in old homesteads in 1980s; this process became particularly intense in 1990s. Polders, a system of ditches and canals, and terpy have survived. Local roads and homestead driveways are lined with willows. Ashes and limes have been planted later along the main road.

No. 15 is an angular (or a modified cross-shaped) Dutch homestead situated in a colony ca. 200 to the east of the Elbląg - Drzewsk road, on the southern side of a driveway, facing it with its ridge. It was erected at the end of the 18th century and modified in 1853 and in the 4th quarter of the 19th century. Until 1945, it belonged to the Eichler family. A house has stone/brick foundation, a plastered log structure with dovetail halvings in corners, and a log extension (south side) with quoins covered by boards imitating Tuscan pilaster. The extension is supported by 4 octagonal pillars with capitals. The building has a vertically boarded gable, a rafter - two-collar beam roof structure, and asbestos tile roofing. The interior has a 2-bay layout with a wider southern bay, the large room in the southeastern corner, a black kitchen in the large room bay, and a divided (later) hallway, which originally, consisted of two sections: a rectangular arcade hallway and an utility hallway (with a corridor to a cowshed) resembling the letter .... . The western elevation has 3 axes and a 4-axial gable (lower section) with two windows enclosed by quarter-circular skylights and a single window located above. The southern elevation has 6 axes with a shallow arcade supported by 4 posts (axes 2-4 from the west) and an entrance in the 3rd axis between two windows.
No. 9 is a house situated in the northern section of the village, on the western side of a road, facing it with its ridge. It was erected at the end of the 19th century and has a log structure with quoins covered by profiled boards, vertically boarded pointing sill and gables, a queen post - purlin roof structure, and pantile roofing. The southern elevation has 3 axes and a 4-axial gable (lower section) with two windows enclosed by triangular skylights and a semicircular window above. The eastern elevation has 5 axes and an entrance (with a modern porch) located in the 2nd axis from the south.
No. 11 is a house situated in the northern section of the village, on the western side of a road, facing it with its ridge. It was erected at the end of the 19th century and has a log structure with quoins covered by profiled boards, a vertically boarded low pointing sill and gables, a queen post - purlin roof structure, and sheet metal roofing. The northern elevation has 2 axes and a 4-axial gable (lower section) with two windows enclosed by round skylights and a round window above. The eastern elevation has 5 axes and a centrally located entrance with a porch.
A building without a number is a house situated in a colony, on the eastern side of the Elbląg - Drzewsk road, on the northern side of a driveway, facing it with its ridge. It was erected in the mid 19th century on a brick foundation and has a log structure with quoins covered by profiled boards, vertically boarded gables, a rafter - collar beam roof structure, and pantile roofing. The southern elevation has 2 axes, a 2-axial gable at the lower level, and a semicircular window above. The western elevation has 5 axes and a centrally located entrance with a porch. The building is in the state of ruin.