Dziedzictwo Kulturowe Północnych Kaszub
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Celbowo - the Rodenacker family manor house from 1885 surrounded by an extensive park with exotic and native trees. An avenue of tall chestnut trees leads directly to the building. Private property. A 19th-century manor farm complex comprising barns, granaries, storehouses and a coach house. Among them rises a clock tower and a massive water tower. Nearby there are old brick living quarters for farm labourers where farmers live to this day.

Celbowo - dwór

Celbówko - a small one-storey manor house from 1885 with slight gothic features. In the nearby old park there are exotic and native trees of historical value. Private property.

Celbówko - dwór

Leśniewo - an impressive neo-Gothic church from 1893.

Leśniewo - kościół

Łebcz - a manor house from the latter half of the 19th century, converted numerous times, surrounded with a small park. Nowadays an agro-tourism farm. A neo-Baroque three-nave church built in 1932.

Łebcz - dwór
Łebcz - kościół

Mechowo - a half-timbered church from 1742 dedicated to St Jacob and Nicolas. Oriented, whitened, and with an isolated chancel and a tower topped with a copula with a closed lantern. A number of buildings in the village are half-timbered houses from late 1790s and the 19th century. The Mechowo Caves- natural monument.

Mechowo - kościół
Mechowo - groty

Osłonino - a one-storey manor house founded by the Below family in 1900, surrounded by a park. Private living quarters now.

Osłonino - dwór

Połczyno - a one-storey manor house with no particular style from the mid-19th century surrounded by relics of what once was a park. Private property.

Półczyno - dwór

Radoszewo - a period forging shop and relics of a park are the only remaining parts of a 19th-century manor farm complex.

Radoszewo - kuźnia

Rekowo Górne - a 19th-century manor house with an intriguing form, namely a rectangular, one-storey building with the first floor in the central part, with side additions in form of a little four-side tower, a basement flat and a terrace. Its facades are decorated with neo-Gothic and Neoclassical ornamental details. At present it houses the “Wieniawa Hotel”

Rekowo Górne - dwór

Rzucewo - a palace complex of the von Below family erected in the years 1840-1845. At present it serves as a hotel and a restaurant. In the two-level library, located in the corner tower, visitors may see an exhibition presenting the history of the palace. The residence is surrounded with a park which was started in times of King Jan III Sobieski. Its most valuable element are noble monumental trees such as plane trees and sweet chestnut trees. Among the trees one may find a 19th- century Hunting House, the Below family mausoleum and old stables and granaries. An archeological station named “ A Neolithic village of seal hunters”. North off the palace, on the Bay of Puck, there are the remains of a seal hunters village. Its traces were found by archeologists in late 1890s, however, the site was examined in more detail in 1920s and late 1990s. It was inhabited in late Neolith ( 2500-1700 B.C.) and the inhabitants left stone tools and lots of seal bones behind them.

Rzucewo - zamek

Sławutówko - a palace complex of the von Below family. In 1910, Gustaw von Below built a palace in place of an 18th –century hunting house. Nowadays it houses a hotel. On the border of the palace park one may see old farm buildings, and down in the valley, on a small river, there is a grand 19th –century watermill.

Sławutówko - pałac Below
Sławutówko - młyn

Starzyno - the Church of Michael the Archangel built in 1649 exhibiting both Renaissance and Gothic features; erected in place of the 16th –century wooden church. Oriented, single-nave building with a west tower and the isolated chancel. The interior is decorated with a 17th-century polychrome presenting the Final Judgment.

Starzyński Dwór - folwark
Starzyński Dwór - grobowiec
Starzyno - kościół

Strzelno - a church erected in 1830 to which a corner tower was added in 1970. The interior décor comes from the first church ever built in Strzelno and the Church of the Cistercians in Oliwa.

Strzelno - kościół

Swarzewo - a church built in the years 1878-1880 in place of the old church to commemorate the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Inside is the sculpture of the Madonna of Swarzewo, which is famous for its miracles. Legend has it that this figure was once a decorative element of a church in Hel. After being thrown into the sea by Protestants, it appeared on the shore in Swarzewo. Before the present church was built it had been kept in a Baroque oval chapel erected in 1775 near the spring whose water was believed to have miraculous and medicinal properties. Nearby the chapel there is a 19th-century roadside folk cross. The sanctuary is a place where church fairs are held as well as the destination of pilgrimages. A period dwelling house made of clay in ul. Szkolna.

Swarzewo - kościół
Swarzewo - kapliczka ze źródełkiem
Swarzewo - miniskansen
Swarzewo - miniskansen

Zdrada - a memorial to commemorate the birth of Antoni Abraham.

Zdrada - pomnik Abrahama