Nowa Karczma (also colloquially known as Piaski) is a neighborhood of

Krynica Morska Krynica Morska () is a town and coextensive municipality (''gmina'') on the Vistula Spit in northern Poland with 1,172 inhabitants as of 2023. It has been part of Nowy Dwór Gdański County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999; previously it was ...

on the

Vistula Spit The Vistula Spit (; ; ; ) is an aeolian sand spit, or peninsular stretch of land, separating Vistula Lagoon from Gdańsk Bay, in the Baltic Sea, with its tip separated from the mainland by the Strait of Baltiysk. The border between Poland (Pom ...

in northern

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

, located in the eastern part of the town.

History

Previously a separate village, it was part of the

Kingdom of Poland The Kingdom of Poland (; Latin: ''Regnum Poloniae'') was a monarchy in Central Europe during the Middle Ages, medieval period from 1025 until 1385. Background The West Slavs, West Slavic tribe of Polans (western), Polans who lived in what i ...

until the

Second Partition of Poland The 1793 Second Partition of Poland was the second of partitions of Poland, three partitions (or partial annexations) that ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. The second partition (politics), partition occurred i ...

in 1793, when it was annexed by

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. In 1871 it became part of Germany. Following Germany's defeat in

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, in 1945, the village was reintegrated with Poland. It was included within town limits of Krynica Morska in 1991. Until then it was a village administratively located in

Gmina Sztutowo __NOTOC__ Gmina Sztutowo is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. The seat of gmina is Sztutowo, which lies approximately north of Nowy Dwór Gdański and east of the ...

References

Neighbourhoods in Poland Nowy Dwór Gdański County {{NowyDwórGdański-geo-stub