The spring awakening at the large Somminer lake begins late. Yet the waves splash disturbed, of no boat, at the sandy bank, but the farmers of Sommin review already the rowboats for the tourists and repair the boat footpaths strongly brought by the hard kaschubischen winter. The summer should become hot this year, prophesies Schultheiß Tadeusz Cysewski - and therefore the inhabitants of the little can reckon, at the former German-Polish boundary of lain village already soon again with the first Sommerfrischlern.
What pulls the persons actually into those hills and lakes empires Moränenlandschaft in east Pomerania, that extends itself 200 kilometers south and west of Danzig and carries the surname of the "Kaschubischen Switzerland" since the beginning of the century? Tadeusz Cysewski itemizes the attractions of Sominy: it gives a Holzkirchlein out of the 18th century, a monument marksman farm, that former Schäferei and the g sharp deed "Kaszubski Bor", that offers vacation in the saddle. The rooms, that the Schultheiß in the frame of the Agrotourismus program promoted by the government offers, cost only converted ten marks per day, and the stay is worthwhile really, for one can fish daily up to 40 kilogram Plötzen, perch, Brassen and Schleien out of the lake - and sometimes even Renken or Maränen.
So idyllically that sound likes: who Kaschubien discover wants, should be select vacation quarters with consideration. The Danziger hinterland is as always poor farmer country and tourist few opened. A large plus for everyone, that seek nature vicinity and take for that also simple conditions in purchase. He who wants to go eating on vacation also once well, is in places as well as Sominy at the incorrect place. That ask solves surprise to a restaurant in Schultheiß Cysewski first once from: "the fishes our vacationers themselves... roast themselves "
He who wishes it more somewhat luxuriouser, can make however the "kaschubische Riviera" between Ustka Stolpmünde and Leba to the starting point of its discovery trip into the lakes zone. Offer a variety of tourist attractions, above all however kilometer expanse gold yellow of sand beaches to both traditional beach baths. Worthwhile the peninsula Hel Hela is, and there above all that of an active city administration systematically verschönerte fisherman village laws Heisternest. Beautifully, but very approve: headquarters did not restore the lock lain already in the kaschubischen hinterland Krockow in Krokowa, the reconciliation German-Polish among other things with means the foundation one of the most important pommerellischen nobility sexes.
Counts to discover it an once characteristic ethnographische region that passes from the Baltic Sea to the Bory Tucholskie/Tucheler moor north of Bydgoszcz/Bromberg. The label of the territory comes from the 13th century and goes on the west slavic people tribe of the Kaschuben back. Until 1929 belonged the largest part Kaschubiens to Poland, except the environment of Slupsk/Stolp, Bytow/Bütow and Czluchow Schlochau that was Germany trains part. After the war, the total zone fell as a result of the boundary postponement at Poland.
Already always the Kaschuben were the German too little German and the Poland too little Polish. "And if one Kaschub is, that passes neither de Deitschen nor de pole varnishes", said already Anna Koljaiczek, the kaschubische grandmother of Gunter grass novel figure Oskar Matzerath out of the "sheet metal drum". The kaschubische dialect is threatened today of the extinction because the boys yet understand it to be sure, but use no longer even.
Thanks to the tourism, other kaschubische traditions further are maintained however. So one can hear on the kaschubischen fair taking place annually in July in Kartuzy Karthaus yet old people instruments as well as the devil violin and the Brummbaß, that are unknown elsewhere totally. Also the kaschubische museum in Karthaus, that clicked westkaschubische museum in Bütow as well as the open-air museums in Kluki, /and Wdzydze sand village enable an encounter with the kaschubischen culture.
Most tourists nature attracts however undoubtedly: more than 700 clean lakes and soft hills that are ideal for hiking and cycling. Perhaps is yet somewhat at it at the conviction of the domestic according to what the gentleman God had forgotten its homeland in the world creation. When he remembered the Kaschubei, he was ashamed and gave its the best of that, what had remained it at other places: the bluest water, the most golden sand, the greenest forests and the most round pebble stones. And so Kaschubien became one of the most beautiful angles of the world.