Zakład kąpielowy w Brzeźnie w okresie napoleońskiego Wolnego Miasta Gdańska

• Authors: Janusz Dargacz

Title variants

EN

The bathing resort in Brzeźno in the Napoleon Free City of Gdańsk

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The bathing resort in Brzeźno in the period of the first Free City of Gdańsk was built by the Gdańsk authorities in 1810 as requested by Napoleon’s governor General Jean Rapp. The resort was leased to Johann Carl Sust. The first information about the resort comes from 8 August 1810. The resort offered not only baths in the sea, but also cold and hot baths in one of the rooms prepared for this purpose. The leaseholder provided meals and drinks, as well as accommodation in his new inn in Nowy Port. In the subsequent two seasons the resort functioned without major changes. To facilitate the driveway to the resort the leaseholder introduced regular carriage connections between Nowy Port and Brzeźno. In the autumn of 1812 the Gdańsk authorities terminated the lease contract with J. C. Sust due to his bankruptcy, and conducted a bidding to choose a new leaseholder of the resort. It was a Gdańsk entrepreneur Joseph Karmann who became a new leaseholder. When the change of the leaseholder took place at the end of 1812, the inventory of the resort’s facilities was recorded twice. The contract concluded with J. Karmann in December 1812 was not enforced. The resort was destroyed completely at the beginning of 1813 during the siege of Gdańsk. The exact date and circumstances of that event remain unknown; probably the resort was destroyed by the Russian troops. On the basis of the cartographic materials and later records it can be assumed that “the Napoleaon” resort was situated east of the village of Brzeźno, directly on the beach, on the level of what is now Haffner’s Park. The widely spread assumption about J. Haffner’s involvement in the establishment of the resort in Brzeźno cannot be confirmed by any source.

Keywords

EN

Gdańsk; Brzeźno; Jean Georg Haffner; the bathing resort; balneology

• Publisher: Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu
• Journal: Zapiski Historyczne
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 76
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 67-77

Contributors

author

Janusz Dargacz

• Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Gdańska