However, a true beginning of the village is 24 June 1638 – the date when a charter according to the Olęder law (the Dutch law) was granted by Polish princess Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, daughter of Polish King Sigismund III Vasa, who served as the starost of Brodnica.

Olęders were colonists from the area of the present day Netherlands, Denmark and Rhineland, who were settling in various parts of Poland since the half of the 16th century.

In the 17th and 18th century the name “Olędrzy” was associated with colonists in general, as well as with Poles with long-term lease who settled in the area of north-western Poland.

Olęders, were settling willingly in the area of north-western Poland because they were granted there economic privileges: lease, rent, end of serfdom, Lutherans – freedom of worship, tithe exemption.

According to the record from 1797, the estate Małe Książki was obliged to: pay rent for the government cashier office in Brodnica, provide feed for cavalry, provide horses in case of the king's visit in the country, send people for wolf hunting and building fortifications and churches, transport alcohol from the brewery in Kruszyn, maintain flows and drainage ditches from the Sitnowski Canal which were crossing the area of the estate.

In October 1831, several Polish units of the November Uprising, including cavalry and infantry, stopped in the village on the way to their internment places in the Prussian Partition of Poland.

They previously belonged to Niemieckie (German) Łopatki and were exchanged for 360.08 ha which was used for building the Toruń-Olsztyn railway.

[3] Local Poles were also among the victims of the large massacres in Łopatki, perpetrated by the German police, SS and Selbstschutz in 1939, also as part of the Intelligenzaktion.

It should be remembered that the charter was granted by the owner of the village, princess Anna Catherine Constance, starost of Brodnica.

There was also Małe Książki (Klein Xiążken – a landed estate, after the Second World War it was a state-owned farm – Polish PGR).

It is an interesting detail that in 1902 a new brickyard opened by a landed estate (Małe Książki), which was functioning until 1943, was inscribing on their bricks the name “Ksionsken”.