Prussian Mennonites near Przechowka

Schwetz (Sciewie), Poland, lies about 75 miles south of Danzig (Gdansk), on the northwest bank of the Vistula River.  In the 17^th and 18^th centuries, Mennonite villages flourished in the Vistula delta area.  Many congregations could be found surrounding Gdansk (Danzig), Elbing, Malbork (Marienberg), and Stuhm, and even as far south as Schwetz.  Later, Mennonites colonized even farther up the Vistula River, inhabiting villages around Gabin (Gombin) and Warsaw.  http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/prussia/?searchterm=prussia.  This is how the area looked in the early 1800s:

According to the Przechowka Churchbook, Ratzlaffs lived in the villages of Przechowka (Wintersdorf in German), Bekieszyce (Beckersitz), Jeziorken and Konopat (among others).  Here’s a view of the area from a Polish map dated 1879:

This map, also from the late 1800s, shows Jeziorken (upper left) in relation to Wintersdorf (Przechowka) and Konopath:

Traces of the Mennonite villages can still be seen today on satellite images.  The Polish paper packaging company Mondi Packaging Sciewie, SA, occupies area immediately to the north of Przechowka.  Konopat still exists.  http://wikimapia.org/#lat=53.3827652&lon=18.3940315&z=14&l=0&m=b