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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.
No. 11 is a building from an old Dutch homestead situated in the village center between encircling roads, in the south-north axis. The building was erected at the beginning of the 20th century in place of an earlier building; a cowshed and a barn have been taken down. The house has a brick underpinning, a log structure, a vertically boarded pointing sill and a gable, a queen post - purlin roof structure, and a double-pitched roof covered by interlocking tiles. The gable elevation has 3 axes and a 3-axial gable. The western elevation has 3 axes and an entrance with a wooden porch in the axis of northern ceiling beams supporting the top plate.

No. 7 (former 24) is a house situated in the southern section of the village, on the eastern side of the Malbork - Nowy Dwór road, facing it with its ridge. Farming buildings are located on the eastern side. There is a park on the southern and northern sides. The building was erected n the 4th quarter of the 19th century and belonged to Penner and later to his grandson, Wiebe. Horst Wiebe owned the house until 1945. The building has a stone foundation, a log structure with boarded quoins, a pointing sill, a half-timbered attic room, a wooden porch in front of an entrance, a queen post - purlin roof structure with angle braces, and double-lapped tile roofing. The interior has been partially modified and has a traditional layout characteristic of Żuławy houses with the large room in the south-western corner, a centrally located black kitchen, an L-shaped, bipartite hallway, which separates 4 rooms in the northern section of the building. The frontal elevation is symmetrical with 7 axes, an entrance with a centrally located 3-axial porch, windows in the pointing sill aligned with the ground-floor windows, and a 3-axial, half-timbered attic room. Window and door frames, ceiling moldings, and decorative elements in elevations have survived. The homestead also includes 2 cowsheds and a masonry granary.

    
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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