Czarna Dąbrówka


Czarna Dąbrówka is a village in Bytów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Until 1945 it was part of Farther Pomerania in Prussia. It is now the seat of the gmina called Gmina Czarna Dąbrówka. It lies approximately north of Bytów and west of the regional capital Gdańsk. The village has a population of 1,112.

History

The settlement was founded by the Teutonic Knights in 1346 as Damerkow. It was first inhabited by Kashubian people. From 1457 Damerkow and the nearby village of Kleschinz were owned by Martin von Puttkamer, and from 1517 by the noble family of Zitzewitz. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was a possession at different times of the noble families of Lettow, Wobesen, and Stojentin
According to a history by Brüggemann, in 1784 the village had one farm, six tenants, five cottagers and fifteen households. At this time there were two separate properties, Damerkow "A", consisting of a farm, with two tenants and four cottagers, which was in the possession of Captain J. W. von Puttkamer, and Damerkow "B", with four tenants and one cottager, known as Niemietzke, in the ownership of Johann Christian Ernst von Puttkamer. The Polish name is based on the German name Puttkamerhof, which refers to the Puttkamer family.
After 1800 a Herr von Zeromski became the owner of Schwarz Damerkow. Waldemar von Puttkamer bought the property from Zeromski, but Puttkamer continued to own it only until 1864. The last proprietors of Schwarz Damerkow mentioned in the estates book ' are:
At this time the property consisted of 300 hectares of arable land, including 235 hectares of arable fields, 35 ha of meadows, 5 ha of woods, uncultivated land, yards, and roads, and 20 hectares of water. The average land tax per hectare was 3.08 Reichsmark. Schwarz Damerkow was the economic centre of the south-east part of the County of Stolp.