History
The oldest part of Nowy Staw is the formerly independent village of Stawiec, north of the town. It was founded in 1316 by the Teutonic Order. In 1409, the Teutonic Knights started producing black gunpowder in the town, and a few decades later in the middle of the fifteenth century merchants from nearby Gdańsk, Danzig (Gdańsk) erected an Oil mill. From 1466 on it was part of the Polish Malbork Voivodeship. During the various Polish–Swedish wars the town was occupied and plundered several times. During the eighteenth century a new district, the "New town" grew up between the existing settlement and the Tuja (river), Tuja river. Since that time urban development has taken place in a southerly direction along the right bank of the river. With the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the town, as Neuteich was annexed by Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia and had belonged to the Kreis Marienburg (West Prussia), Marienburg district in the Provinces of Prussia, Prussian Province of West Prussia, which had belonged to the German Reich since 1871. In 1886, the railway line from Szymankowo (Simonsdorf) via Nowy Staw (Neuteich) to Nowy Dwór Gdański (Tiegenhof) was put into operation. In 1920, as a consequence of the Treaty of Versailles, Neuteich was ceded by Weimar Republic, Germany to the Free City of Danzig, within which it became part of the district of Großes Werder. With the capture of the Free City of Danzig at the beginning of World War II in 1939, Neuteich came under Nazi Germany, German rule. On March 11, 1945 it was captured by the Red Army and was later placed under Polish administration. In the following years, the remaining Germans, German population was Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II, expelled and the town was repopulated by Poles.Architecture
Main town buildings: * Saint Matthew Collegiate church (year 1450) * Old town market squareNotable residents
* Julius Dickert (1816-1896) a teacher and a Progressive member of the national Reichstag between 1871 and 1878 * Walter Reek (1878–1933), mayor of Neuteich (1925-1933) * Erna Beilhardt (1907–1946) an SS-Aufseherin at several concentration camps and a member of the German Red Cross during the last year of WWII * Elisabeth Becker (1923–1946), SS concentration camp guard executed for war crimes * Tadeusz Cymański (born 1955) a Polish conservative politician.External links