📜 From a princely fishing village to a Baltic resort
The first written mention of Ustka comes from 1459 — the village was then under the rule of the Pomeranian princes and lived from fishing in the Baltic. For the following centuries the settlement remained a small, self-sufficient fishing community, its rhythm of life set by seasonal trips out to sea, storms and smoking fish for sale.
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 1892. It instantly became the symbol of the village and still serves seafarers to this day. After World War II Ustka 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.
