📜 From a princely fishing village to a Baltic resort
The history of the settlement reaches back centuries, and in 1772 the surrounding lands were settled by colonists. Until 1945 the village bore the German name Neu Strand (New Beach) and lived from fishing and forest work. Its present-day character was shaped by the storm of 1914, after which the settlement retreated from the edge of the cliff inland.
In the 19th century, with the development of shipping and the need to secure the dangerous stretch of coast, a lighthouse was erected here — it was put into operation in 1838. It instantly became the symbol of the village and still serves seafarers to this day. After World War II Poddąbie returned within the borders of Poland and from the 1960s and 1970s onwards it changed shape: in place of fishermen's huts grew guesthouses, holiday cottages and the first resorts, and the sandy beach, forests and proximity of the Baltic attracted family after family.
