Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vistula delta Mennonites settled in the delta of the Vistula between the late 16th century and 1945. While the situation of Mennonites in the city was often complicated, the settlement in the area along the Vistula became an appealing alternative. Large areas of the Vistula Delta were in the possession of the city or its burghers. This area was however devasted in the horsemen’s war and furthermore destroyed by a severe flood in 1540. In 1543 the city council reported that many villages of formerly 15 to 20 farms did not exist any more. Michael Loitz, a Danzig councillor and merchant, had received a thirty-year lease of an area at the river Tiege (Tuga) by the Polish King and in 1562 he invited Mennonites to settle here and cultivate the Vistula marshes. Dutch-style windmills to drain the swamps and Dutch-style houses coined the area from now on.

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