Nowy Duninów is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Płock County __NOTOC__ Płock County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. ...

Masovian Voivodeship Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw. Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...

, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...

(administrative district) called

Gmina Nowy Duninów __NOTOC__ Gmina Nowy Duninów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Nowy Duninów, which lies approximately west of Płock and west of Warsaw. The ...

, a rural area. It lies approximately west of

Płock Płock (pronounced ), officially the Ducal Capital City of Płock, is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. According to the data provided by Central Statistical Office (Poland), GUS on 31 December 2021, the ...

and west of

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Geography

Nowy Duninów is located on the

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a few kilometers northwest of

Stary Duninów Stary Duninów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowy Duninów, within Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. References

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(Old Duninów), at the intersection of Route 62 (DK-62) and Route 573 (DW-573). It has port facilities, which are now mostly for water-sports enthusiasts.

History

A sugar mill was founded at Nowy Duninów in 1846 for processing sugar beets, as it had a good port for agricultural transport. Among the other industries in the village in the early 20th century were distilleries, a brickyard, a sawmill and fish farms.

Castle

It's Neogothic "pocket castle" was built from 1835 to 1840 by Karol Albrecht Wilhelm Baron von Ike, and served various functions over its long history from being a chapel, a cinema and a hotel. In 1959 it became a "registered monument". By the late 1980s it had fallen into disrepair when in 1992 it was remodeled as a private residence.

Notes and references

Villages in Płock County {{Płock-geo-stub