Town Charateristic
Wide hamlet, the distance of the lido at the Baltic sea reaches over 3 kilometers along the cost with pine wood. Geographically Pobierowo is situated on Trzebiatowskie Cost, which with its range includes area from the channel of Resko Przymorskie lake, to estuary of Dzwina river. However the area that belongs to commune of Rewal is called Rewal Coast, which is taken from the name of the main city - Rewal. Among its strengths there are: pure water, sandy beaches by the cliff coast, spas and guest houses prepared to welcome everyone.
Climate conditions can be characterised with high temperatures during the winter and small rainfall and a big amount of sunny days. The season starts here since May and lasts till September. Pine woods provide a lot of iodine and oxygen. From here you don't have to travel long to get to Trzesacz, Kamien Pomorski and Trzebiatowo that are very attractive towns. To attractions you can also attach a narrow-track railway, horse riding, golf fields, and European Trail E-9 from the Breniewo to the Pyrenees leading along south coast of Baltic sea, North sea till Atlantic Ocean.
There are a lot of people not only during the summer but also during the weekends, when owners of new houses come here to get some rest regardless of the season of the year. Health resort is also often visited by citizens of Szczecin.
Pobierowo is very wide. It has the biggest area on Rewal Coast. Grunwaldzka Street around which the whole tourist-life is focused is almost 4 km long and it connects west and east part of the town. There are lots of cafes, restaurants, bars, pubs and discos. You can also find stores and stalls. This town is known of wide and sandy beach that can be reached from almost every place. You can find here a good conditions to surf. Pobierowo is a perfect place for people who like to rest in active way. Woods invite for long walks and cycle trips.You can spend a night in many guest houses. You can ask about vacancies in spas or the owners of guest houses. In the city center you can find a big camping place with houses and with a place for a tent and a trailer. There are also smaller camping places.
There is a lot to do here. Discos, cinema, cafes, teashops, and a big amount of beer gardens are only the example of places where you can go to spend you holiday time. In Pobierowo often take place festivals, sport tournaments and concerts of well known bands. These concerts become a tradition of Pobierowo. They are organised in the city center on the junction of the main street and the biggest entrance to the beach.
The beginning of sea bathing is specified to 1907 year, when a farmer Frohreich built a hotel called "Seeblick". You can see this building in the crossroads of Mickiewicz Street and Grunwaldzka Street. It was rebuilt and right now it is used as a guest house for employees of Szczecin University. Other families settled down on the west part of town. The amount of buildings was becoming bigger and bigger in the neighborhood of the hotel, later appeared a pork-butcher's shop and a bakery. About 1939 Krause - the owner of the mansion gave the businessman from Berlin-Gervais about 1500 hectares of wood in Pobierowo. The businessman divided Pobierowo in the way, that there were about 1600 m2 of building area + 200 m2 for roads in every hectare. The price of half a hectare was about 663 Reichsmark. Thanks to intensive advertisement and fast developing bus connections from Berlin to Pobierowo the town developed very fast. The bus left every Saturday in the very noon and came back to Berlin in Sunday evening and a cost of return ticket was 12,75 Reichsmark.
Pobierowo in the very short time became the favorite place to rest of people from Berlin. Lots of houses were built here in the middle-war times. There was a house owned by Himmler in the near Bialobudz town (Baldebus) just right off the road that leads toward Rybice that was given to Eva Braun. They say then in the house German prominents took a rest and even the owner came here in company of the leader Germany. People saw a good place to invest their money, so they built cinema, clubs, viewpoints etc. That is how the resort was created.
After the Second World War almost the whole resort was given into hands of " Fundusz Wczasów Pracowniczych" (Employee holiday fund), that created here the biggest resort of family holidays. In past there were here only wooden houses and the holidays here were a profit for the best employees. When polish people started to spent their holidays at the seaside, they started to build here spas. After the system transformation some of those spas went into private hands and many of guest houses were built. It lasts till today.
From the history we know that Pobierowo was built in the place of old Slovakian hamlet from XI - XII century and in documents written in 1368 this kind of name was mentioned. A chapel was built here in 1590. It is known that Pobierowo in the past was an ownership of Kleitow ( Kleszczy), old Pomeranian lineage. Members of that lineage were very important people in the court of Gryfits and in everyday life. That is confirmed by the fact that commander Tessen Kleist was a witness of the pact signed in 1493 in Pyrzyce. It affected heritage of the power on Pomorze Szczecinskie area. Tessen Kleist was also a comrade of Boguslaw X in his pilgrimage to the Saint Soil from December 1496 till April 1948. However Jerzy Kleist that was a prince chancellor stayed in the country to help princess Annie ( Jagielonka - wife of Boguslaw X) in ruling over Pomorze. In 1628 Pobierowo still belonged to the Kleist family.
On 10-th of August a widow after captain Anton Kleist, Juliane Elisabeth sold the mansion to Second Lieutenant Kasper v. Paris. Few years later the property came back to the first owners because Johan Joachim v. Kleist bought it back for 8000 tallars. It stayed in a possession of this family till 1772, when in Berlin died hotelman - Ludwig Leopold Georg von Kleist. His mother sold Pobierowo to Kleist starost. Next after few years Pobierowo was owned by another person, from witch it came back into Kleinst hands. In 1789 a lessee of Pobierowo became Daniel Rickman.
In 1801 Otto Joachim v. Kleist sold a windmill for 781 tallars 18 groszy 48 peaces of rye and 10 gooses to David Warnkauf. Next in 1803 a burgess Daniel Godferd Ricman inherited the rest of fortune. The inheritance was accepted by a Prussic King on 10-th of June 1802.
Pobierowo did not have a church only a chapel with a small tower and bells built by Ewald vol Kleist in the second half of the XVI century. Few centuries later they stopped to conduct masses. In 1806 a vicar Dewitz from Trzesacz started coming to Pobierowo and in mentioned chapel he conducted masses. As a salary clergyman got 9 guldens.
During napoleon wars there was a French division in Pobierowo. After deth of Rickmann in 1810 the town was owned by his younger son Carl Davod whose son was the last owner of Pobierowo from this family. In 1849 lived here a grandson of the buyer Herman Rickman. The property stayed in his family for 66 years.
Daniel Rickman moved 4 peasants from Pobierowo to a new place, where he ordered to build houses for them. That is the way how small Pobierowo was created. Since then the old Pobierowo was called The Big Pobierowo. In 1896 Big Pobierowo was bought by Robert Krause.
Number of citizens was increasing every year. In the end of XIX century the amount reached 23 and 5 landlords. In the second half od XIX century Pobierowo similar as near villages started to loose their rural character because that arable soil was covered by sand from the sea. You can find several farmers registered in books till 1886, however in the very beginning of next century there were only three of them. In may of 1939 the amount of citizens of Pobierowo reached 376 in 111 houses.
