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gm. Nowy Dwór Gdański, pow. nowodworski, woj. pomorskie Until 1945 Rückenau TK (Schrötter) Rickenau, (Gotha), Rűkenau (Endersch)
The village was established in 1321 under the Chełmno law. The sources from 1727 mentioned 13 Mennonite surnames, the sources from 1772 - 17 surnames, and the sources from 1776 mentioned the following surnames: Dick, Ens, Harder, Hiebert, Claassen, Penner, Schirling, and Toews. In 1820, the village had 212 residents, including 68 Mennonites. The petition from 1868 was signed by three Mennonites from the Hamm family and also Abraham Hoepner, Johan Riesen, and Warkentin. In 1869, the village had 544 ha of land, including 100 ha of meadows, 31 houses, and 291 residents, including 49 Mennonites. In 1936, there were 15 Mennonite families with 62 individuals with the following surnames: Braun, Friesen, Haese, Hein, Janzen, Klaasen, Neufeld, Penner, Regehr, Schröder, and Wiebe. Village layout - an oval village in a north - south line by the Malbork - Nowy Dwór Gdański road. The cultural landscape has partially survived with a detectable layout of homesteads and farms. A large homestead (no. 7) has been preserved in the southern section of the village. It includes a large detached wooden house, two large cowsheds, and a masonry granary. There are two parks established in the 19th and 20th centuries on the southern and northern sides. The village also has remains of 2 Dutch homesteads, 4 wooden houses, a half-timbered house (no. 4), and historical outbuildings, including a long cowshed from 1917. Some old houses have been modified. No. 2 is an old longitudinal Dutch homestead situated on the
western side of a road, facing it with its ridge. It includes a house, a
cowshed, and a bricked barn, all covered by a common high roof with
pantile, sheet metal, and interlocking tile roofing types. The house was
erected in the 1st quarter of the 19th century on a stone foundation and
has a log structure with boarded quoins, and a half-timbered, vertically
boarded southern gable. The gable elevation originally had 3 axes, but has
been later modified. The gable has 3 axes at the lower level with two
small, quarter circular skylight and a semicircular skylight above. The
eastern elevation has 6 axes with entrances in the axes 1 and 3 from the
north. Dwoinkowe doors and decorative main entrance door have
survived. SGKP, t. IX, s. 953; Penner, s.81; ME, T.III, s. 559; Lipińska t.III poz. 175; AG, BF, MP. |
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