📜 From a princely fishing village to a Baltic resort
Until 1945 the town bore the German name Funkenhagen and was a small settlement by the Baltic. It was here, in 1846, that Richard Plüddemann — a renowned architect — was born. For centuries the area lived from farming, fishing and — from the 17th century — lime production.
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 Gąski 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.
