A little while later, on October 4, 1334, the town was founded in the immediate vicinity of the village by Bertold von Riesenburg, Bishop of Pomesania; it was called Garzanum in the document of foundation.

[2] In 1454, King Casimir IV Jagiellon incorporated the region to the Kingdom of Poland upon the request of the anti-Teutonic Prussian Confederation.

[4] The main road of the settlement broadens toward its southern part to end up in the market place, at the south-eastern edge of which the church is located, probably first built around 1330–40.

[6] On June 12, 1832, the Prussians attacked a group of Polish insurgents who were nonviolently resisting an attempt to send them to the Russian Partition of Poland, and then still deported them, including those wounded.

[7] After World War I and the Treaty of Versailles a referendum was held allowing the inhabitants to decide on the future national membership of their town.

As a result, it became part of Germany, although the town had to pass on its train station, which was located ten kilometers further south, to reborn independent Poland.