Czarna Dąbrówka ' is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in Bytów County

Bytów County

Bytów County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Bytów, which lies west of...

, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Pomeranian Voivodeship

Pomeranian Voivodeship, or Pomerania Province , is a voivodeship, or province, in north-central Poland. It comprises most of Pomerelia , as well as an area east of the Vistula River...

, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

 (administrative district) called Gmina Czarna Dąbrówka

Gmina Czarna Dabrówka

Gmina Czarna Dąbrówka is a rural gmina in Bytów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Czarna Dąbrówka, which lies approximately north of Bytów and west of the regional capital Gdańsk....

. It lies approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Bytów

Bytów

Bytów is a town in the Middle Pomerania region of northern Poland in the Bytów Lakeland with 16,888 inhabitants . Previously in Słupsk Voivodeship , it is the capital of Bytów County in Pomeranian Voivodeship .-History:...

 and 71 km (44 mi) west of the regional capital Gdańsk

Gdansk

Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

. The village has a population of 1,112.

History

It was founded by the Teutonic Knights

Teutonic Knights

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 in 1346 as Damerkow. The place was originally inhabited by Kashubian people

Kashubians

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. Since 1457 Damerkow and the nearby village of Kleschins

Kleszczyniec

Kleszczyniec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czarna Dąbrówka, within Bytów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Czarna Dąbrówka, north of Bytów, and west of the regional capital Gdańsk.The village has a population of...

 (Kleszczyniec) had been owned by Martin von Puttkamer. Since 1517 it had been owned by the von Zitzewitz lineage. In 16th and 17th century it was the fief of the von Lettow, von Wobesen and von Stojentin lineages.

According to the history of Brüggemann, the village in 1784 had 1 farm, 6 landlords, 5 cottagers and 15 households. At this time there was Damerkow A consisting of a farm, 2 landlords and 4 cottagers, which was in the possession of captain J. W. von Puttkamer. Damerkow B consisted of 4 landlords and 1 cottager. This part belonged to Niemietzke

Podkomorzyce

Podkomorzyce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czarna Dąbrówka, within Bytów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately west of Czarna Dąbrówka, north of Bytów, and west of the regional capital Gdańsk.The village has a population of...

 (Podkomorzyce) village and was possessed by Johann Christian Ernst von Puttkamer.

After 1800 von Zeromski became the owner of Schwarz Damerkow. Waldemar von Puttkamer bought the place from von Zeromski, but von Puttkamer possessed it only until 1864. The last proprietors of Schwarz Damerkow mentioned in the memento book Güteradreßbuch were:

1884 - Alexander Schulze

1910 - Ikier

1928 - Harry Ikier

1938 - Hertha Ikier.

At this time the property consisted of 300 ha (741 acres) of arable land including: 235ha (581 acres) of arable fields, 35ha (86 acres)of meadows, 5ha (12.5 acres) of woods, idle lands, yards and roads and 20ha (50 acres) of water areas. The average tax per hectare equalled 3,08 RM (Reichmark). Schwarz Damerkow was the economic centre of south-east County of Stolp (Słupsk).