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The Silver Bell Hotel has prepared for its guests wide range of additional services. We cordially invite for horse riding on a plate longe or in the fields or along the beach. Carriage rides along Kadyny’s streets are also in our offer. In the winter time it is worth to come for sleigh riding. All year long we are organizing getting more and more popular paintball games and shooting competitions in which participants use various kinds of fire-arms including replicas of old riffles. On request we organize grapple show and trainings.

We innvite for mushroom picking and fishing. Forests of Kadyny are ideal place to practise nordic walking. Anyone can take part in bike trips and yacht cruises. We run windsurfing and kitesurfing school. For those who serach for extreme impressions we recommend walks on glowing embers or flight in hotair baloon. In cooperation with Elbląg’s Aeroklub we organize flights over Vistula Bay. The Silver Bell Hotell invites for special evenings during which you can listen to African music and admire exotic dances. In the hotel discoteques, dancings and karaoke take place.

Kadyny’s attractions
Kadyny is a village which history steems from Medieval Ages. Knights’ property as well as village of the gentry in the course of centuries were changing their owners in order to become possession of German cesar Wilhelm II. From that moment village Kadyny had its big time. Cesar build the village from the beginning – including building of The Silver Bell Hotel which had been designed by outstanding architect Konrad Steinbrecht.

One of the most interesting monuments of history is Fransciscan monastery from the turn of XVII and XVIII century. It was founded by Jan Teodor Schlieben. At first the buildings were wooden but later on Warcisław Dębski ordered to replace them with brick. Complex of monastery buildings consisted of church, Loretan chapel, building with cloister cells, rooms of guardian and taecher and refectory. On the adjacent terrain there was manor house with rooms for the guests. When in 1826 Prussian authorities decided to dissolve assembly in Kadyny most of the grounds and buildings become possession of Edward Birkner. By 1889 most of the building were pull down, in surviving part school and teacher’s apartment were located. Nowadays ruins of chuch and some part of guardian permises retained. The chuch is being renovated thanks to efforts of Fransciscan priest father Leszek.

It is worth to pay attention to Pilgrim’s Chapel build in 1680. During monastery Times numerous processions were beginning its travels in this place. In wooden recesses there is chapel of family Brikner in which one of the suns of Elbląg’s bankier was burried. Kadyny is very often associated with brickyard – great progressive creation of Cesar Wilhelm II. Pottery and building ceramics were produced in this factory.

In the heart of the village there is a baroque manor house – single-storeyed building with nine axis and storeyed rozalit in the middle of main front elevation. The oldest part of the building were created on the iniciative of Jan Teodor Schlieben in XVII century. In 1720 – 1723 following owner of Kadyny, Jan Ignacy Działyński rebuilt manor mouse. During following years building had different owners among them count von Shwerin and his wife. Later renovations have given the building more classical look. At the turn of XIX and XX century the building became possession of cesar Wilhelm II. Part of the estate is granary, classical building with a Tower butli in 1801 for Ignacy Antoni Mattha.

One of Kadyny’s highlights is thousand years old Jan Bażyński’s Oak. It is one of the oldest monument sof naure in Poland. The oak is 25 metres high and 10 metres wide. Name of the tree has been given in the memory of one of the village owners.

History
Kadyny is a pleace rich not olny in historical past but also in unique landscape and climate charateristic to area close to Vistula Bay.

The name ‘Kadyny’ had been intercepted by Teutonic Knights and it steems from old Prussian language. Since 1431 Kadyny was possession of Jan Bażyński. After several changes of its owner in 1682 new ownership of the village belonged to Schlieben family. Only in 1898 property was inhabited by cesar Wilhelm II. From this moment the village came into its magnificency. Cesar decided to rebuild his property profoundly. He also determinated to build the village from the beginning according to projects of architects from Berlin. Villiage was build in so-called teutonic style (Ordenstil). Building of school – nowadays building of The Silver Bell Hotel was created in 1902-1905 along with other buildings in specific style with elements of Gothic Revival. School operatem till the end of 90s XX century. After school’s liquidation the building was assigned for apartments for citizens. In 2001 the building undergone privatization and after finding new houses for the inhabitants general overhaul was started. The building was assigned for a hotel with restaurant and conference rooms.