Nature
The northern and southeastern parts of the Długi Kierz area lie within the “Kaszubski Park Krajobrazowy”. The remaining part of the Długi Kierz area lies within the buffer zone of the “Kaszubski Park Krajobrazowy”. In the eastern part of Długi Kierz, near the border with the municipality of Chmielno, lies part of the “Doliny Łeby w KPK” nature and landscape protection complex.
An area of 1.7361 hectares is designated as a landscape park. An area of 17.7558 hectares lies within the buffer zone of a landscape park.
History
To the west of Długi Kierz are the ruins of a former brickworks. A brickworks operated in Długi Kierz throughout the entire interwar period and even after the Second World War, until the 1980s; it employed several dozen people and was, for a time, the largest industrial plant in what is now the municipality of Sierakowice.
According to the most frequently cited origin story, Helena Gruchałowa, a housewife from the village of Długi Kierz, introduced strawberry cultivation in the early 1920s after transplanting several neglected plants, initially thought to be wild strawberries, from a neighbor’s garden into her own garden. It later turned out that they were strawberries, from which she obtained substantial fruit after several years.
Trails
In the vicinity of Długi Kierz, the marked Wzgórz Szymbarskich trail crosses several times the barely discernible track bed of a former industrial railway used to transport stone. On the way to Długi Kierz, the marked trail runs for about 700 meters slightly uphill along a paved road and then turns north onto a dirt road. The section of the trail beyond Długi Kierz runs between fields, small patches of woodland, and scattered farmsteads.
The unsignposted “Szlak Truskawek Kaszubskich” driving route, established in 2024, runs along a side section from Miechucino via Długi Kierz to Wygoda Łączyńska.
Anyone wishing to rent a holiday apartment in Długi Kierz searches specifically for accommodation in this location.
More location pages: Borzestowo, Borzestowska Huta.
