Gryfia Góra

Gryfia Góra, later known as Gryfice, stands on the Rega in Pomerania. Duke Wartisław III founded a town here under Lübeck law in 1262, and his successor Barnim I named it Griphemberch after the griffin of the Pomeranian dukes. Town walls were built, and work on Saint Mary's Church began at the end of the thirteenth century. The town joined the Hanseatic League in 1365 and profited from navigation on the Rega, although control of rafting on the river remained a source of long dispute. A Latin school was recorded here in 1386.