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Nowy Dwór

Nowy Dwór
Among tangled thickets and marshy climates, one of the most beautifully meandering Polish rivers – the Biebrza – has its source in the village of Talki. The source is located in Gmina Nowy Dwór, near the Sokółka Hills, from where it heads north and then turns west and flows into a vast ice-marginal valley, then in the Biebrza Valley. Gmina Nowy Dwór is situated in the buffer zone of the Biebrza National Park, in the north-eastern part of Sokółka County. The gmina can boast great natural and scenic values. Except the Biebrza, the Sidra and Nurka rivers flow across its territory. In the village of Bobra Wielka there is a large complex of fish ponds, with the area of several hectares.
             The seat of the gmina is Nowy Dwór located between the Sidra and the Biebrza. The gmina boarders Belarus. Grodno lies several kilometres from Nowy Dwór as this entire area was part of the former Grodno County and before that – of the eastern borderland of Black Rus’ belonging to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
            Nowy Dwór, known in the 16th century as Biały Dwór (White Manor), is a town of several hundred years of history dating back to the 15th century, and diverse cultural heritage. As most gminas of the Upper and Middle Biebrza, Nowy Dwór was created at the confluence of three cultures, ethnic groups and religions. Established on the southern edge of the former Yotvingian land, occupied in the 15th century by settlers from Masovia, Lithuania and Black Rus’, initially it was a hospodar (lordly) manor built in the belt of the Nowy Dwór Primeval Forest reaching the Biebrza, which was separated from the colonised forests of the Grodno Forest. The area of Nowy Dwór was passed from hand to hand and belonged to the Sapieha family, among others. In 1536, it was bought by Queen Bona for – according to historic sources – 1000 Austro-Hungarian guldens. Her reforms initiated the development of the town.
            Located in the upper course of the Biebrza, Nowy Dwór was supposed to guard the crossing of the river from the east. At the end of the 16th century, the settlement obtained the Magdeburg Law. For the next centuries, the town developed very fast, it even housed the seat of the District Court in the 19th century. In the following years, a railway from Grodno to Augustów was drawn across the town. Before World War I and in the interwar period, Nowy Dwór was famous for horse fairs and was of a typically rural character. Nowy Dwór lost its town rights in 1934. It is now a village with a communal administration unit. To this day it has preserved its traditional, 17th-century spatial layout and a historic complex of the Church of St. John the Baptist, and numerous wooden houses from the 19th and early 20th centuries with boarding, corners decorated with sculptures, and window heads in Nowy Dwór and the nearby villages (Bieniowce, Bobra Wielka, Butrymowce, Chilmony). In some villages entire farm complexes survived, with wooden and sometimes even thatched barns (adryny) and granaries (świronki). In the villages of Bobra Wielka, Chojnowszczyzna, Kudrawka and Ponarlica there are historic parks and cemeteries. Also historic Orthodox churches survived until today in Nowy Dwór and Jaczno. The gmina offers a truly attractive area for tourists, the greatest value of which is an interesting landscape of an upland crossed by rivers. Tourists and naturalists will find here unspoilt nature, excellent conditions for organic farming and agritourism, interesting tourist trails among forests and fields with typical, conical haystacks, beaver lodges, and – of course – the source of the Biebrza, springing in an alder forest and flowing from Dąbrowa Białostocka through Różanystok, Grzebienie and Nowy Dwór to Talki. Across the gmina also runs the Sanctuary Trail: Jaczno, Różanystok, Dąbrowa Białostocka, Kamienna Stara, Krasnybór and water trails of the Biebrza and Sidra.
 
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