Kuźnica

Kuźnica ( Kashubian: Kùsfeld; German: Küsfeld ) is a popular small seaside resort in northern Poland on the Baltic Sea. The citizens of Kuźnica are predominantly Kashubian. Fishing and tourism are the main sources of income of the inhabitants.

Geography

Kuźnica belongs to the city of Jastarnia powiat Pucki the Pomeranian Voivodeship on the Hel peninsula on the Puck Bay. The village is located between Chałupy and Jastarnia at one of the narrowest sections of the Hel Peninsula. Here the strip of land between the open Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Gdansk is barely 200 meters wide. In winter striker for the country to be swamped by sides of the open Baltic Sea. During a violent storm in 1983 there was a large coastal erosion, the beach line shrank by about 30 meters.

Between 1991 and 1992 began with the successful extensive and costly reconstruction of the beach. Meanwhile Kuźnica is thus better protected against violent winter storms and their destructive power.

Libek: Between Kuźnica and Jastarnia the highest dune in the Hel peninsula rises. It reaches a height of about 12.5 meters. The name comes from the ship "Lübeck" back, which most likely ascended in the 17th century on a sandbank and sank.

Attractions

Main attractions Kuźnica are near the beach and the smoked fish and the small fishing port on the side of the Puck Bay.

Every year all the Hel Peninsula fishermen come on Gedanktag their patron saints Peter and Paul together in Kuźnica to take from there a boat pilgrimage to Puck, to thank him there for the safe return of the lake and a good catch.

Fishermen's Church

1840 got Jastarnia Thanks to Bishop Anastazy Sedlak a parish, which was also responsible for the localities Kuźnica Bór and Hel. From now had over 90 years the people of Kuźnica approximately 8 km to go to the church of Jastarnia to attend church can. Finally, the decision was made to build a church and started the construction of the church in the Gothic Revival style in 1931. This served the Church of Swarzewo as a model. In 1933 the church was consecrated.

The church is decorated nave and modest. The stained glass windows were decorated with nine stained glass. Characteristic Fischer elements in the church are for example the wooden pulpit, which was created in the form of a boat by the inhabitants of Kuźnica. On the left side there are two paintings of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. The main altar has a painting of the church's patron saint: St. Anthony of Padua with baby Jesus.

The first pastor was parochial vicar Expositus Losinski (from 1 January 1933) and Franciszek Ksawery Szynalewski ( from 1 July 1933). The latter was four years later the first parish priest of the parish Kuźnica. To him this is a memorial plaque in the church vestibule.