Świdwin

Świdwin stands on the Rega in inland Pomerania. A fortified settlement lay on a route between Kołobrzeg and Greater Poland, and the town had received municipal rights by 1296. It passed to the Teutonic Order in 1384 and to Brandenburg in 1455, reflecting the changing rule of this borderland.

A dispute with nearby Białogard led to fighting between the towns in 1469. A Carthusian monastery was founded in 1477 and secularised in 1539, while brewing developed locally. Epidemic struck in 1550, and fires and the Thirty Years' War damaged the town in the seventeenth century.