Approaching the historic moment, Hotel Senator the first hotel in the seaside Dźwirzyn will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Therefore, in this article we will try to introduce the history of the hotel and Dźwirzyn itself located at the Dune Nature Reserve Between Dźwirzyn and Grzybowo. At the beginning, it must be said that the history of Hotel Senator is a colorful journey full of new, interesting moments that permanently accompany the development of the hotel. A story full of courage, perseverance, diligence of the owners and employees of the hotel. In addition, everything, the history of the Hotel is written by millions of joyful moments of our guests, who have visited this place in large numbers for over 50 years, drawing energy from the unique seaside climate.
History of Dźwirzyn
The first mentions of Dźwirzyn date back to the 12th century, these are trace information, because the town itself, distant from the larger cities of Western Pomerania, then belonging to the Gryfite Dukes, lived its own fishing life. The first chroniclers, who noticed Dźwirzyno in 1270, record the town under the name of Dwyrin and Dwirin, but already in 1417 on the famous map of Pomerania master Lubinus Dźwirzyno was described under the name Olt Deep, to appear as Colberger Deep in the annals of 1761.
According to scholars of history, the original Slavic settlement of Dwyrin ceased to exist, and on the same place the German colonists founded a new one. A more plausible thesis is that the influx of new culture and strong links with the German Roman Empire of the rulers of Western Pomerania influenced the slow but inevitable change not only of the ethnic inhabitants as well as the voluntary adoption of culture and the language dominant in the state. Let us also remember that in the middle ages a popular tool for solving problems were assaults and raids on neighboring towns, and in the history of Dźwirzyn there was also an attack by a settlement from Trzebiatowo. These were struggles for influence, land, trade glasses, fishing rights. At that time, the coastal areas were equally often the arena of assault by Vikings, who reigned on the Baltic Sea in the middle centuries. In the 12th century, the Pomeranian prince Barnim I of the Gryfit dynasty settled a dispute over the fishing village of Dwyrin between the knight Przybysław and the monastery in Białoboki for the amount for which the village of Dwyrin had to be bought out.
Dźwirzyno farming and fishing village between the Baltic Sea and Lake Resko Przymorskie.
The largest city in the Kołobrzeg region, the seat of a bishopric, salt brewhouse, settled at the end of the Parsęta trade route in 1305 reached Dźwirzyn with its administrative boundaries. Kołobrzeg chroniclers from the 15th century mention 17 fishing families living in Dźwirzyn and the struggles of the inhabitants with the blown sand from the dunes inland. It was also then that the first plan of reforestation of dunes was created in order to avoid seasonal sandstorms. The real systematic afforestation of the dunes in Dźwirzyn occurred in the 19th century. In 1976-1983 relics of a defensive tower or a primitive wood-stone lantern with a diameter of 4-4.5 meters were found on the territory of Dźwirzyn. Kołobrzeg chroniclers report that in the years 1855-1857 strong storms exposed wooden structures in a place where legends circulated since the dawn that it was a place after sunken flesh.
In the 18th century, there were 26 houses in Dźwirzyn and 14 families subsisted from fishing, the second most important occupation was extracting peat. Tourism began in Dźwirzyn in the 19th century, residents of the hinterland regions who wanted to spend summer time on the Baltic Sea and take baths began renting modest accommodation from locals. In the first tourist census, which took over Dźwirzyno in 1906, 690 guests were counted in the pre-war years, which are already over 1000 people a year who value their rest in our seaside town.
Field Marshal Gebhard von Blucher commander of the Prussian troops under Waterloo, the first curator in Dźwirzyn. In his chronicles he describes the time when he took sea baths in Dźwirzyn nearby. Dźwirzyna as a resort became famous thanks to the charitable work of the pastor from Goslavia, Gustav Lenz from the 19th century. He wanted to create a sanatorium for tuberculosis and malnourished children here. The lands for the construction of the center were granted by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, and the queen, personally performed at a charity concert for the construction of a children's sanatorium. Lenz's house still stands at Wyzonlenia Street and belongs to the Border Guard of the Republic of Poland as a training centre.
Dźwirzyno is located 10 km from the spa town of Kołobrzeg and 17 km from the city of medieval monuments with the preserved medieval city wall in Pomerania. Dźwirzyno is surrounded by the Natura 2000 area “Trzebiatowsko-Kołobrzeski Pas Nadmorski” and the bird protection area “Trzebiatowskie Coast”. The Hotel itself is bordered by the Dune Nature Reserve Between Dźwirzyn and Grzybowo. Thanks to this, the dune dunes are among the most beautiful dunes, rich in quails and an old stand of pine. On the territory of Dźwirzyn there are also 16 pedunculate oaks, which are natural monuments.
Since 2012, the Dźwirzyno swimming pool meets the mandatory quality requirements of bathing water in the European Union. In the 1970s, Dźwirzyno experienced a real construction boom, plants from central Poland began to build their holiday resorts. In the early nineties, at the time of the fall of communism, there was a permanent transformation into a new accommodation base and the emerging hotels adapted their standards to European expectations of holidaymakers from Poland and Europe.
History of the Senator Hotel
Over the decades, the Włókniarz Inter-Plant Sanatorium-Leisure Center from the 1970s has been expanded with new attractions and facilities for guests: elevators, bowling alley, swimming pool, SPA center, outdoor terrace with jacuzzi, à la carte restaurant Orangery, to finally reach the highest level of the 5-star Hotel. Currently, Hotel Senator is one of the three pillars of the Seaside Hotels Group. Other facilities are Hotel Unitral in Mień and Hotel Lidia in Darłowo. In total, the Group has 650 rooms, which makes us one of the top 30 hotel groups in Poland. We are driven by the dreams and needs of our guests. We combine history with modernity, making sure that during their stay our guests get the best in one place. We are very pleased that you choose us as the place of your holiday. Our development plans go back many years. We will be very pleased if you continue to accompany us on this journey. This is all happening for you! Today you can book rooms in the 5-star part of our facility.
Some of the changes have been collected in the form of a photo-gallery “50 years of the Senator Hotel”, which you can see in the hotel lobby.
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