Długi Kierz: Hotels and Accommodation

The northern and southeastern parts of the Długi Kierz area lie within the “Kaszubski Landscape Park”, while the remaining part lies within its buffer zone. In the eastern part of Długi Kierz, near the border with the Chmielno municipality, there is a section of the “Doliny Łeby w KPK” nature and landscape protection complex. In addition, there is a 1.7361-hectare area designated as a landscape park, as well as a 17.7558-hectare area within the buffer zone of a landscape park.

Trails

In the vicinity of Długi Kierz, the marked Wzgórz Szymbarskich Trail crosses several times the barely recognizable track bed of a former industrial railway used to transport stone. On the way to Długi Kierz, the marked trail runs for approximately 700 metres slightly uphill along a paved road, then turns north onto a dirt road. The section of the trail beyond Długi Kierz runs between fields, small patches of woodland and scattered farmsteads.

The unmarked “Szlak Truskawek Kaszubskich” driving route, established in 2024, runs along a side section from Miechucino through Długi Kierz to Wygoda Łączyńska.

History and origins

To the west of Długi Kierz are the ruins of a former brickyard. A brickyard operated in Długi Kierz throughout the entire interwar period and after the Second World War until the 1980s. It employed several dozen people and was at times the largest industrial plant in the area of what is now the Sierakowice municipality.

According to the most frequently cited origin story, Helena Gruchałowa, a housewife from the village of Długi Kierz, popularized strawberry cultivation in the early 1920s. She had transplanted into her own garden some neglected plants from a neighbour’s garden that she initially believed to be wild strawberries. It later turned out that they were strawberries, from which she obtained impressive fruit after a few years.

Other places

Other directly associated places include Borzestowo and Borzestowska Huta.

To the higher-level travel overview: Karthaus.

Other destinations

Other places under the same destination:

Miechucino, Sianowo, Kiełpino, Borucino, Sianowska Huta, Prokowo.