Fischhausen

Fischhausen stands on the Vistula Lagoon in the former bishopric of Sambia. Its castle, first recorded in 1268, became a residence of the bishops, and a town grew beside it from the end of the thirteenth century. Many of its early settlers came from Stralsund on the Baltic coast. The settlement received a charter in 1305 and took its name from the bishop's house.

After the secularisation of the Teutonic state in 1525, the castle passed to the Duchy of Prussia. Duke Albert married Dorothea of Denmark in its chapel in 1526, and his son Albert Frederick later resided there. The castle subsequently declined; in the early eighteenth century Frederick I ordered it demolished and used its stone to strengthen the nearby fortress of Pillau.