EV9/WTR – stage 1- the right side of the Vistula

Logistics

Unfortunately, no town at this stage has a railway connection. The optimal solution to cover this part of EuroVelo 9/Wistula Bicycle Route is to get to Mikoszewo from Gdansk (according to the course of EuroVelo 10/13) using the ferry through Przekop Wisly (operates from April to the end of September) or start the trip from the south from Tczew. However, the city is located on the other side of the Vistula River, so you need to cross the Knybawski Bridge to find yourself on the eastern thread of EuroVelo 9/ Vistula Bicycle Route.

Characteristics, mileage, tips

The Low Land section of EuroVelo 9/Wistula Bicycle Route on the Eastern side of the Vistula River runs through the communes of Stegna and Ostaszewo. Lichnowy and Miloradz. The stage is easy due to the flat terrain of the Low Lands. The cycling infrastructure here is at a good level. In each commune there are sections of asphalt bicycle roads. There are also fragments of cycling on a general basis, but rather roads with low or moderate traffic are used. It is important that investments in bicycle routes are planned in these places in the near future. The Low Land is an agricultural and flat area, so there are no attractive vantage points with extensive panoramas. There is, however, a characteristic, rural atmosphere, causing a slight calming and slowing down. This has its undeniable advantages.

In the successive villages of Low Lands, there are interesting monuments of rural architecture. Of course, driving through flood dykes, for example between Mikoszewo and Drewnica, provides amazing landscape impressions and the pleasure of moving along a comfortable bicycle path. It should be noted that this is the only fragment of this stage led on the flood embankment. It is planned to extend the asphalt road on the embankment from Drewnica to the area of the junction at S7. The remaining sections run at a certain distance from the river, and only in Lisewo Malborskie does the route approach the Vistula again. At this stage, there are three crossings to the other side of the river, two road crossings (the bridge along the S7 expressway and the Knybawski Bridge along the national road 22) and one ferry crossing in Mikoszewo.

Mapa EV9/WTR - Etap 1 - prawy brzeg Wisły

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Dedicated parking spaces

• Mikoszewo – planned site on the flood embankment.
• Nowa Koscielnica – by the sports field in the area of the intersection (canopy, bench, bicycle racks, information board).
• Ostaszewo – in a small park in the center of the village (bike racks, information board) .
• Nowa Cerkiew – on a meadow in the center of the village (shelter, benches, bicycle racks, information board)
• Lichnowy – in the center of the village, next to the Commune Office (bench table, bicycle racks, information board).
• Dabrowa – by the playground, directly by the asphalt bicycle path (tables, benches, bicycle racks, information board).

Possible difficulties

The only difficulty at this stage of EuroVelo 9/Wistula Bicycle Route are sections with bicycle traffic on general terms. It is true that the number of vehicles is not high, but on long, straight sections, vehicles can move at an increased speed, which creates a danger. These are in particular sections: Drewnica – Stroza (this is a temporary course, as it is planned to build a bicycle road on the flood embankment), Nowa Koscielnica – Ostaszewo, Nowa Cerkiew – Lichnowy, Dabrowa – Lisewo Malborskie. In some places, new bicycle paths will be built in the coming years.

You will see on the course of EuroVelo 9/Wistula Bicycle Route and in the vicinity

• Mikoszewo (Stegna commune) – beach, Mewia Lacha nature reserve at the mouth of Przekop Wisly to the sea, two arcaded houses and examples of wooden residential buildings, a narrow-gauge tourist train.
• Drewnica (Stegna commune) – post windmill from 1718, examples of wooden residential buildings.
• The Gdanska Glowa lock (Stegna commune) – an impressive hydrotechnical facility from the end of the 19th century, the lock separates the Vistula from the Szkarpawa.
• Zulawki (Stegna commune) – 4 houses with arcades, including a particularly attractive, restored house no. 6 called Danziger Kopf from the 18th century, the marina of the Low Land Loop.
• Przemyslaw (Stegna commune) – arcaded house from the 18th century.
• Nowa Koscielnica (Ostaszewo commune) – 2 arcaded houses from the 18th and 19th centuries.
• Ostaszewo – ruins of a Gothic church.
• Jeziernik (2 km outside EuroVelo 9/Wistula bicycle Trail, Ostaszewo commune) – a Gothic church with a wooden tower, an arcaded house from the 19th century.
• Gniazdowo (Ostaszewo commune) – an 18th-century arcaded house.
• Nowa Cerkiew (Ostaszewo commune) – two arcaded houses from the 18th and 19th centuries, a neo-gothic church from the 19th century.
• Palczewo (2 km outside EuroVelo 9/Wistula Bicycle Route, commune of Ostaszewo) – a Dutch windmill from the 19th century, a wooden church from 1712, wooden houses in Low Lands.
• Borety (5 km outside EuroVelo 9/Wistula Bicycle Route, Lichnowy commune) – ruins of a Gothic church, a half-timbered church from the 18th century.
• Pordenowo (Lichnowy commune) – an old Mennonite cemetery, an arcaded house from the 19th century.
• Lichnowy – a Gothic church
• Lisewo Malborskie – a Gothic church with a wooden tower.
• Konczewice – a Gothic church with a wooden tower.

Other bike trails and excursion suggestions:

• Mennonite trail (black) – the trail has several variants, its leitmotiv is the cultural heritage of the Mennonites and traditional architecture of the Low Lands, the trail covers a significant part of the most interesting monuments in Low Lands (arcade houses, wooden residential buildings, village churches, hydrotechnical monuments).
• Bicycle trip Lichnowy-Nowy Staw-Malbork – an excellent proposal for a bicycle trip, complementing the sightseeing of the Low Lands monuments. It runs entirely along bicycle paths, but it is not marked as a bicycle trail. On the route, the two largest towns in the area: Nowy Staw (market square, former Evangelical church and now an art gallery, arcaded house, Gothic church of St. Matthew, buildings of the former malt house from the 19th century) and Malbork (Teutonic castle, Gothic church of St. John, Gothic town hall, fragments of defensive walls with St. Mary’s and Potter’s gates, rebuilt Latin School – currently a cultural centre).