Dziedzictwo Kulturowe Północnych Kaszub
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Białogóra - a half-timbered fisherman’s house from the latter half of the 19th century.

Brzyno - a one-storey manor house built in 1905. Next to the building there is a low tower which, in fact, is a 19th-century rotunda-like well. Private property. On the outskirts of the village there is an old evangelical graveyard with the ruins of a sepulchral chapel and 19th-century gravestones.

Brzyno - dwór

Dębki - period buildings of a fishing village with old half-timbered houses, the oldest one dating back to the 18th century. A manor house built by professor Adam Wrzosek in the years 1924-25. In 2001 it was transferred to the Poznań Caritas branch and underwent a thorough restoration. A small wooden church of the Priests of Resurrection. Built in 1935 on a letter-T layout. It has a folk décor.

Dębki - dworek

Kłanino - the palace of the von Grass family from the 17th century. Nowadays it is a guesthouse. In the palace precincts there is a small but trim park surrounded by a 19th –century fence, beyond which manor farm buildings and granaries of the 18th and 19th centuries are located.

Kłanino - pałac

Krokowa - the palace of the von Krokow family. The village was the residence of the Krokowski (von Krockow) family from the 13th century to 1945. The members of the family lived in a small knight’s settlement, then in a residential tower and as of the 15th century they resided in a small castle. At the beginning of the 17th century the castle was extended and, thus, converted into a modern residence. It was modernized a few times and finally took on its late Baroque look after the 1784 conversion. In 1990, the devastated building was taken over by the European Encounters Foundation- Kashubian Culture Centre, founded by the last owner of the estate, Albrecht von Krockow, which helped to restore the past splendour of the residence. Nowadays it houses a hotel and a restaurant as well as an exhibition rooms in which the history of the von Krockow family is presented. The castle is surrounded by a moat and the remains of defensive walls and it integrates beautifully into the nearby extensive strips of gardens and the park. Old manor farm buildings, such as stables, granaries, a distillery and living quarters for farm labourers (now converted into hotel rooms) have survived to this day. A neo-Gothic Church of St Kathryn of Alexandria. Built in the years 1847-50 in place of the old temple, it incorporated the former family mausoleum (now the vestry). An old inn converted into the Regional Museum in which history and region culture exhibitions are held periodically (in the season, open from 10am to 6pm , outside season from 10.30am to 4pm Tuesday to Sunday) An old churchyard has numerous German gravestones.

Krokowa - zamek
Krokowa - kościół

Lubocino - the inconspicuous remains of the Rodenacker family residential complex with a one-storey manor house from the latter half of the 19th century. Nowadays it serves as a school.

Lubocino - dworek

Minkowice - a village inn with Neoclassical facades has been open almost undisturbed from the latter half of the 19th century.

Parszkowo - a Neoclassical manor house from 1880 surrounded with a small park. Private property.

Parszkowo - dwór

Prusewo - an impressive manor house from the beginning of the 20th century. Nowadays it houses the ‘Six Oaks Hotel’ and a conference centre. Behind the residence there is a well-tended garden in French style and a small park with monumental trees (oaks and linden trees). The remaining parts of the manor farm complex are livestock buildings located near the farmyard and a distillery.

Prusewo - dwór

Sławoszyno - a late Baroque one-storey manor house from the close of the 18th century. Private property.

Sławoszyno - dwór

Sulicice - a manor house built in 1870 in place of the old one, which had been destroyed. After 1945 the employees of the Plant Raising Station of Połczyno moved in. Nearby there are brick and stone farm buildings, living quarters for farm labourers and the remains of what once was a park.

Sulicice - dwór
Sulicice - pomnik

Świecino - the field of the 1462 battle between the Polish and the Teutonic Knights armies.

Świecino - pomnik

Tyłowo - a half-timbered church from 1755, restored and extended in 1999. An inconspicuous manor house of the Thymian family from 1880. Private property.

Tyłowo - kościół
Tyłowo - dwór

Wierzchucino - a catholic church with no particular style from 1930. A neo-Gothic evangelical church erected in 1882 in place of the old one. After the last Evangelicals had left in the mid-20th century, the church and the churchyard with numerous 19th-century graveyards were devastated. The churchyard was restored in late 1990s. A memorial to those who died in WWI. A former manor farm complex comprising a manor house with no particular style (private property), a 19th-century mill and old German customs service buildings (until 1939, Wierzchucino was a border village)

Wierzchucino - kościół
Wierzchucino - cmentarz
Wierzchucino - dworek

Żarnowiec - the Cistercians convent was funded by the Dukes of Gdańsk in the 13th century. From the north it is connected with the church with a galleried square. Destroyed and rebuilt several times, it was thoroughly converted after Żarnowiec had been taken over by the Benedictines. After 1866 it was converted to suit the parish’s needs. The only original elements that have survived to this date are the gothic galleries, the north wings (made lower) and, partially, the west wings. With Mother Superior’s consent it is possible to see the works of church art kept in the convent’s treasury, among others, antique books, embroidered chasubles, chalices and crucifixes. The Annunciation Church (former convent church) built in the years 1279-1340. There is an inconspicuous four-sided tower adjacent to its west façade and the vestibule and vestry adjacent to the south façade. A singe-nave building (with no isolated chancel). Above the nave there is a stellar vault resting on elaborately decorated responds. The interior is a narrowed by a gallery for nuns. The sumptuous décor of the interior comes from different epochs. Worth noticing are the gothic pieta in the side altar and a 13th-century Romanesque stoup. Apart from the church, the former convent premises comprise the outer wall whose oldest parts date back to the 13th century. Within its limits was a churchyard and the Abbot’s house, as it was called, built about 1409 and converted several times from that time. Since the 19th century it has been a presbytery. A former manor farm complex consists mostly of buildings erected in late 1890s. The exceptions are the impressive brewery from the close of the 18th century and a multi-storey, converted in the latter half of the 19th century, Ksienia’s House whose massive basement walls prove it to date back to the 16th century.

Żarnowiec - klasztor
Krużganki
Ołtarz
Budynki klasztorne
Dom Kseni