Attractions and Places To See around Krokowa - Top 20

Puck Bay is a quieter part of the Baltic Sea, separated from the open sea by the Hel Peninsula, ideal for cyclists looking for scenic routes and contact with nature. The shores of the bay offer numerous bike paths, including the popular Władysławowo–Puck–Rewa section, which runs along the water. The bay is famous for its shallow bottom and rich bird life, as well as conditions for water sports, especially in the areas of Chałupy and Kuźnica. In many places you can stop at piers or observation towers, and the tourist infrastructure is conducive to longer stops. This is an ideal region for recreational trips, combining landscapes, history and nature.

Rezerwat Przyrody Białogóra was established in 1972 and is a 211.56-hectare nature reserve located on the Kaszubian Mierzeja in northern Poland. It aims to protect a unique complex of coastal dunes and inter-dune depressions, featuring rare Atlantic-type peat bog vegetation. The reserve is home to endangered plant species such as stiff club-rush, European wax myrtle,, and brown beak-sedge. Additionally, it serves as a habitat for the common crane, which nests in the area.

The village was built on a raised area of land on the Putziger Wiek, protected from flooding. As stone crate graves with Pomeranian face urns show, the raised areas of land in the region, the so-called 'Kämpen', were already populated in prehistoric times. In 1340, the place was mentioned under the name Swarsow. Graves from pagan times have been found nearby. The village was granted to the mayor Conrad on October 16, 1340 by the Danzig Order Commander Winrich von Kniprode, with 40 acres under Culm law and permission to fish in the lagoon with light equipment for personal use. The privilege was later lost in a fire; therefore, in 1552, King Sigismund II August of Poland issued a largely identical one. Through the First Partition of Poland-Lithuania in 1772, western Prussia with the area around Neustadt and Putzig was reunited with the eastern part of the Kingdom of Prussia under Frederick II of Prussia to the extent that these parts had been connected during the time of the Teutonic Order. Schwarzau then belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1789, Schwarsau was described as a royal village with a Catholic church, a fiefdom and 23 fireplaces (households). In 1845, Schwarzau belonged to the Putzig district and town court. In 1919, Schwarzau was assigned to the Putzig district in the Danzig administrative district of the West Prussia province of the German Empire. After the end of the First World War, most of the Putzig district, and thus also the village of Schwarzau, had to be ceded to Poland due to the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles for the purpose of establishing the Polish Corridor, with effect from January 20, 1920 and without a referendum. As a result of the invasion of Poland in 1939, the area of the Polish Corridor, which had been annexed in violation of international law, became part of the German Reich, and Schwarzau was incorporated into the Neustadt district in the Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen, to which Schwarzau belonged until 1945. Towards the end of the Second World War, in the spring of 1945, the Red Army liberated the region. As far as the German villagers had not fled, they were expelled in the following period and replaced by Poles. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarzewo

The castle is worth seeing. The history of the Krockow family is well researched and presented in a very interesting and detailed way. There are nice rest areas on the way there.

The mouth of the Piaśnica River into the sea - the amazing amber color of the water in the river.

A very beautiful castle in Krokowa

A beautiful forest path between Dębki and Białogóra. Perfect for Gravel.

A nice park near the castle where you can relax. There is a restaurant and a hotel in the castle, but I didn't visit it.