Goleniów

Goleniów, called Gollnow in German, grew amid the forests east of the Oder. Duke Barnim I of Pomerania gave it Magdeburg town rights in 1264, and in 1314 it adopted Lübeck law, more favourable to its merchants. Timber from the town's forests and trade through the port at the mouth of the Ina linked Goleniów to Baltic commerce.

Rivalry with nearby Szczecin caused repeated disputes until the two neighbouring towns signed a treaty of reconciliation in 1615. The Thirty Years' War devastated Goleniów, and it remained Swedish after the peace settlement. A new frontier separated it from much of its hinterland and hindered recovery. In 1720 the Treaty of Stockholm transferred the town and other former Swedish possessions south of the Peene to Prussia.