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

Until 1945 Tiege TK (Gotha, Endersch, Schrötter)

The village was mentioned in 1318 (Thuya) and received privileges in 1345. In 1727, 28 Mennonites lived in the village; the sources from 1776 mentioned the surnames Brockmann, Claassen, Dack, Diderich, Epp, Friesen, Fross, Funck, Gerbrand, Penner, Reimer, Teowe, and Wieb. In 1820, combined villages of Tuja and Tiegefelde had 431 residents, including 86 Mennonites. The petition from 1868 was signed by the owners of large farms Jacob Behrends, Joann Claassen, Peter Duck, Enz, Frans Harms, Jacob Suckau, and Abraham Toews. In 1936, the village was inhabited by 18 families: Driedger, Ens, Hinz, Heidebrecht, Jansson, Janzen, Klaassen, Mekelburger, Neufeld, Penner, Quiring, Ran, van Riesen, Thiesen, Wiebe, and Wiens, among others.

Village layout - an oval village in a northeast - southwest line located along an old route from Mirów to Nowy Dwór with 3 large farms in the western section of the village, 2 in the eastern section and a colonial type village on terpy in the northern section.

The cultural landscape of the village is in decline. A spatial layout is undetectable. Historical architecture includes: a Gothic St. Jacob church, 5-6 wooden houses from the 19th century, two Dutch homesteads, and several masonry houses from the beginning of the 20th century. The road to Lubieszew and internal village roads have cobble stone surfaces and are lined with old linden trees. The cemetery surrounding the church has no gravestones. Homestead vegetation, a field layout, and a system of draining canals have survived.

No. 1 is a longitudinal Dutch homestead comprising a wooden house, a brick cowshed, and a wooden barn, all covered by a roof with a common ridge. It is situated in the northern section of the village, on the western side of the road. The house dates from the mid 1800s and has a wooden, partially bricked structure with a vertically boarded gable, and asbestos tile roofing. The gable elevation has 2 axes and a 1-axial gable.
No. 3 is a house from a Dutch homestead (farming buildings - demolished) situated in the western section of the village, on the southern side of the road to Lubieszew, facing it with the ridge. The house dates from 1875 and has a log structure with quoins covered by boards imitating rustication, a shallow arcade (southern side) supported by 4 columns, a vertically boarded pointing sill and gable, a queen post - purlin roof structure with collar ties and an angle brace, and a ceramic roof. The building has a wider southern bay with the large room in the  southeastern corner, a black kitchen in the large room bay, and a divided hallway (originally - an L-shaped, bipartite hallway) with a row of doors in the farming section leading to the cowshed corridor and spaces by the western wall. The gable elevation has 3 axes, 2-storey gable, 2 rectangular windows enclosed by small windows with three-sided tops, and a doubled skylight with a three-sided top above. The southern elevation has 7 axes and an entrance with a 2-axial arcade between two windows in the 4th axis. The building is splendidly decorated - carved ends of planking boards, fretwork between the columns and in the joint of wind ties and pazdur (in the arcade gable), decorative doors and window frames.
The church cemetery currently has no gravestones. Until 1945, there were stalls with common Mennonite names: the Wiens family and Abraham Wiebe, among others.

    
Schmid, s.340, Penner, s.85; ME, t. IV, s. 329, Lipińska t. III, poz. 181; AG; MP, BF.


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