Port of Neufahrwasser near Gdansk

This photograph is a view of the port of Neufahrwasser, Nowy Port, near Gdansk. The port belonged to the Monastery of Oliwa of the Cistercian Order in the formerly independent city of Oliwa, today a district of Gdansk. Already after the first partition of Poland in 1772, the port fell to Prussia and was thus separated from Danzig. In the 19th century, the small town Neufahrwasser was expanded with a barracks to military base. The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 attributed the port to the Free City of Danzig. The Germans used the area as a transit camp during the Second World War. After the Second World War, Nowy Port was transferred back to the Polish administration. 1772