Paper Mill on Kamienny Potok

The exact date of the building's construction is not known, but it was already in operation in 1650 when the Oliwa Abbot, Aleksander Kęsowski, leased the property to Nathanael Probster as a paper mill, and when the mill was depicted in Milwitz's painting "The Battle of Oliwa." Along with the lease, Probster received the right to fell trees in the monastery's forests. The wood was used both as a raw material for paper production and for the maintenance of the paper mill's buildings. Paper from the mill at Kamienny Potok was probably used by the monks of the Oliwa monastery and likely made its way to Gdańsk. The paper mill, powered by the waters of Kamienny Potok, as the building was intended for, operated continuously until 1907. A year later, the then owner of the paper mill constructed a now-nonexistent wooden café pavilion by the mill pond, designed by Feliks Rakowski. The house was adorned with wood in a similar style, and a porch with a veranda was added to it. The pavilion housed a restaurant with a café, and later, the "W Starym Młynie" tavern, which operated until the end of the 1930s. Subsequently, a post office was located in that place.