Gąbin

Gąbin is an old royal town of Mazovia, recorded in 1215 and granted a confirmed town charter in 1437. In the age of Poland's prosperity its clothmakers were well known, and local merchants sent grain to Gdańsk in exchange for salt, fish and imported drink. Swedish troops burned and plundered the town in the mid-seventeenth century, and the Great Northern War brought further suffering. Gąbin revived in the later eighteenth century before Prussia annexed it in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793.