Green Farm - Agroturystyka na Żuławach nad J. Drużno

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The beautiful rural architecture, wooden as well as brick, had survived. This includes old Dutch farms and arcade houses, the windmills, the network of channels and ditches, historic locks and pumping stations, old cemeteries. The presence of Prussian settlers in these parts had also left behind their traces in the architecture, in the form of typical houses, brick houses (timber framing). Nearby there are class 0 monuments to be found, remains of the Mennonite culture, i. e. in Krzewsk, Markusy, Jezioro, Żurawiec , Raczki Elbląskie .

The location of our Green Farm respective to the tourist attractions of the region of Warmia and Mazury makes it a great vantage point to visit such places as Malbork, Frombork, the Tricity, Stutthof, Lidzbark Warmiński, Święta Lipka, Pasłęk, Olsztyn, Święty Gaj, the Mazury, as well as the Vistula Spit and the route along the lagoon.Especially recommended are the archaeological and historical museum in Elbląg, the Galeria El, the old town of Elbląg, the historical park and palace in Kadyny, with its rich architecture, as well as the museum of the region of Żuławy in Nowy Dwór Gdański.

Ages ago...

These parts, to date not fully tamed by man, hold a multitude of secrets. Historic sources tell us that in the 12th century two ships of the fleet of the order of the Teutonic Knights were sunk in the lake of Drużno. They rest on the bottom of the lake until today, probably in excellent condition thanks to the preservation by the large amounts of sand. They patiently await rediscovery..

Along the Amber Road

On the eastern side of the lake, in the location called Weklice on the Elbląg Upland, is an ancient cemetery. This necropolis was used in time of Roman rule, from the end of the 1st, to the beginning of the 4th century after Christ, by the people of the historic Wielbark culture, which is identified with the presence of the Goths on Polish soil. The cemetery is located in the central point of the shores of the amber-bearing Baltic sea, which connected the main trade routes of ancient Europe.

Truso

The settlement was discovered in 1982 during archaeological research conducted as part of an undertaking named The Archaeological Photograph of Poland. In that same year the first survey and rescue work was conducted, and in 1982-1991 interdisciplinary research (with assistance of geologists and palynologists) digs were conducted at the site.

The settlement was founded on the eastern bank of the lake Drużno, and measured approx. 10 hectares. It covered both the low-lying, partially depressed, parts of the Żuławy between lake Drużno and the Elbląg Upland, as well as a larger part of the so-called intermediate zone between Żuławy and the edge of the Upland..

Results of examinations conducted to date clearly show that this was a handicraft and trade settlement with a harbour, forming an early type of a city..

The harbour had a convenient connection to the open sea through a wide river flowing out of lake Drużno and into the Vistula Lagoon on the east side, and an almost two-kilometre-wide gap in the Vistula Spit. Clear signs of a river flowing in the past were discovered in the vicinity of present-day Elbląg as a wide belt of sand and gravel brought here in effect of river sedimentation. The exit to the open sea was probably located at that time near present day Krynica Morska on the Vistula Spit.

Both the character of the settlement, its chronology and location lean towards the thesis that this settlement is what Wulfstan described in his writings as Truso.