About Puck

The town of Puck is a charming small town spread over the Puck Holm, at the Puck Bay, with qualities particularly attractive for water sports’ fans. Wind conditions predestine the place for sailing, windsurfing, kite surfing and iceboat in the winter.

Puck  is the oldest Slavic harbour on the Baltic Sea, the town of Gdansk’s dukes, the base of the royal fleet, the place of Poland’s nuptials with the sea in 1920.

Puck and the Puck Hillocks already in the Stone Age shelters tribes of seals hunters who were settling there. Waters of The Little Sea, Plutnica Valley and the Darzlubie Forest created favorable conditions for economic development of this region. An important period in the town’s and region prehistory was Late Neolith (2500 BC- 1700 BC) when seal hunters settlements started to appear in nearby terrains, now villages of Rewa, Mrzezino, nearby Oslonino, Rzucewo and Ostrowo.

Nowadays Puck is almost 12.000 town fulfilling administrative function, local life-saving, medical care, fire-fighting as well as law and order center. Puck is a capital of the farthest North administrative district with over 70 000 of inhabitants, a regional educational center in scope of secondary and special schools, a local culture, sports and recreation center.

A number of inhabitants of Puck has been decreasing since 1995 and it still seems to fall off in the future.

Housing Stock

Housing stock of Puck  amounts 80 buildings and social flats. There are 714 flats (different standard and size) localized in town’s housing stocks: 710 housing flats and 10 social flats.

Industrial area:   37,0118 ha

An  area of rural earth amounts to 111 ha, and it’s  22,5 % of total area of town of Puck.

Economy