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completely restored. Tolkemit, a town on the Fresh Haff, is noted for its fishing and fowling, and has 2,300 inhabitants. Other more or less notable towns are: Putzig (with 2,300 inhabitants), Berent (with 2,300 inhabitants), Sch’neck (with 2,200 inhabitants), Dirschau (with 3,800 inhabitants) , and Carthaus (with 600 inhabitants).

+ MARIENWERDER, the capital of a governmental district of the same name, in a fertile plain near the Vistula, 64 miles south-east of Dantzick, with an extensive ancient castle, a remarkable Gothic church, corn trade, and 6,250 inhabitants. Cuim, a city near the Vistula, southward and 76 miles distant from Dantzick, with a military academy, some woollen manufactures, and 6,800 inhabitants. In the middle ages Cuim was an important member of the Hanseatic League, and famed for its cloth manufactures. Graudenz, a city on the Vistula (crossed here by a bridge of boats, 2,700 feet long), 18 miles south-south-west of Marienwerder, has 8,700 inhabitants, and is noted for its strong fortress. Thorn, a strongly fortified city, on the Vistula, north-westward and 125 miles distant from Warsaw, has 12,000 inhabitants, and is remarkable as the birth-place of the celebrated astronomer Nicholas Copernicus (born in 1473), and noted for its gingerbread, corn, and timber trade. Christburg, a town on the Sorge river, with cloth and linen manufactures, and 2,700 inhabitants. The neighboring village of Stuhmsdorf is remarkable in history for a convention concluded here on the 9th September, 1635, between Sweden and Poland. Löbau, a town south-eastward and 43 miles distant from Marienwerder, has 3,300 inhabitants, and is noted for its linen and flax. Other more or less notable towns are: Stuhm (with 1,300 inhabitants), Rosenberg (with 2,500 inhabitants), Riesenburg (with 3,600 inhabitants), Gollup (with 2,300 inhabitants), Culmsee (with 1,700 inhabitants), Briesen (with 2,100 inhabitants), Schwetz (with 3,200 inhabitants), Conitz (with 4,100 inhabitants), Schlochau (with 2,100 inhabitants), Jastrow (with 3,750 inhabitants), Flatow (with 2,400 inhabitants), and Zempelburg (with 3,500 inhabitants).

 

Danzig Report  Nr. 17 – 1st Quarter 1978, Page 7.