Koscierzyna district - Powiat kościerski

Koscierzyna district (cash. Church of the Cross) - poviat in Poland, in Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the historical land Kashubia. The city is the seat of the poviat authorities Koscierzyna.

An administrative division

The poviat consists of:

• municipalities: Kościerzyna
• rural communes: Dziemiany, Karsin, Kościerzyna, Liniewo, Lipusz, Nowa Karczma, Stara Kiszewa
• town: Kościerzyna

Neighboring counties

All the neighboring poviats are located in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, and they are: Bytów district, Chojnice district, Gdańsk poviat, Kartuzy district and Starogard poviat

Drive

National road No. 20 runs through the poviat Stargard down Gdynia and provincial roads:

• provincial road No. 214 (Łeba-Warlubie)
• provincial road No. 221 (Gdansk-Kościerzyna)
• provincial road No. 224 (Wejherowo-Tczew)
• provincial road No. 226 (Przejazdowo-Horniki Dolne)
• provincial road No. 235 (Korne-Chojnice)

There is also a well-organized bus network and a railway network in the poviat. It consists of 14 stations and railway stops as well as 67 kilometers of railway lines.

History

Before the first partition of the First Polish Republic in 1772, there was a non-town starosty in Kościerzyna. During the Prussian partition, in the years 1818-1919, the Prussian district "Landkreis Berent" functioned. In the years 1920-1939 (the Second Polish Republic) and 1945-1975 (PRL), there was the Kościerzyna land poviat. In the period September 1939 - February / March 1945 the area of ​​the poviat was under German occupation.

In 1920, the poviat granted to Poland covered an area of ​​117,698 ha and was smaller than its Prussian counterpart by 6301 ha, which was transferred to the Free City of Gdańsk (the villages of Częstocin, Trzepowo, Gromadzin, Czarna Huta, Borowina, Olszanka, Sucha Huta, Pawłowo).

Main attractions

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  The market square in Kościerzyna
  Hydroelectric power plant in Kornem
• Museum of the National Anthem in Będomin
• Kashubian Ethnographic Park in Wdzydze Kiszewskie
• Kalwaria Wielewska and the Museum of the Zaborska Land in Wiely
• The parish church in Karsin
• Railway open-air museum, market square, Museum of the Koscierzyna Region and the Church of the Resurrection in Kościerzyna
• Krwawe Doły nature reserve
• St. Martin in Stara Kiszewo

There are also many lakes in the district where you can spend a summer afternoon. The most popular are: Lake Wdzydze, Lake WIelewskie, Gołuń, Lake Słopinko, Lakes Polaszkowskie, Lake Radolne, Lake Chąd, Lake Będomińskie and Lake Barkocińskie.

Tourist routes

The main tourist routes of the district are:

• Stone Circles Trail
• The Wdzydzki Trail

• Kashubian trail
• Trail to them. Izydor Gulgowski
• The Border-Trzebiocha water trail
• The Wda River waterway

Gastronomy

It is worth a try

Accommodation

Trivia

• Since June 2009, the Kościerzyna district has its own mascot. It is a yellow-green griffin named Pokoś.
• The open-air museum in Kościerzyna is the only open-air museum of the standard gauge railway in northern Poland. The nearest open-air museums with similar locomotive spacing are in Ełk and Gryfice.
• There are a lot of forests in the poviat, especially in its western part. The forest cover ranges from 0.4% in Kościerzyna to 76% in the Lipusz commune.