Editing Sopot (section)

=== Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ===
[[File:Sopot, dwór hiszpański.jpg|thumb|left|''Spanish Manor'' (''Dwór Hiszpański''), one of the 18th-century manors of the Przebendowski family]]
The spa for the citizens of [[Gdańsk]] has been active since the 16th century. Until the end of that century most noble and [[magnate]] families from Gdańsk built their [[manor house]]s in Sopot. During the negotiations of the [[Treaty of Oliva]] King [[John II Casimir of Poland]] and his wife Queen [[Marie Louise Gonzaga]] lived in one of them, while [[Swedish Empire|Swedish]] negotiator [[Magnus de la Gardie]] resided in another&nbsp;— it has been known as the ''Swedish Manor'' (''Dwór Szwedzki'') ever since.<ref name=his>{{cite web|url=https://miasto.sopot.pl/strona/historia_miasta|title=Historia miasta|website=Sopot.pl|access-date=11 February 2020|language=pl|archive-date=27 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127003153/https://www.miasto.sopot.pl/strona/historia_miasta|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Swedish Manor was later the place of stay of Polish Kings [[Augustus II the Strong]] (in 1710) and [[Stanisław Leszczyński]] (in 1733).<ref name=hm1>{{cite web|url=https://histmag.org/Historia-Sopotu.-Czesc-I-od-sredniowiecza-do-wybuchu-I-wojny-swiatowej-2528|title=Historia Sopotu. Część I: od średniowiecza do wybuchu I wojny światowej|website=Histmag.pl|author=Piotr Pelczar|access-date=11 February 2020|language=pl}}</ref>

During the 1733 [[War of the Polish Succession]], [[Stanisław Leszczyński]] stayed in Sopot a few days before going to the nearby city of Gdańsk.<ref name=his/> Afterwards [[Russian Empire|Imperial Russian]] troops [[siege|besieged]] Gdańsk and a year later looted and burned the village of Sopot to the ground.<ref name=his/> Much of Sopot would remain abandoned during and in the following years after the conflict, as the [[Patrician (post-Roman Europe)|patricians]] of Gdańsk, exhausted by the war, could not afford to rebuild the Sopot residences.<ref name=hm1/>

In the 1750s, [[szlachta|Polish nobility]] of [[Pomerania]] began to rebuild the village.<ref name=hm1/> In 1757 and 1758 most of the ruined manors were bought by the [[Magnates of Poland and Lithuania|magnate]] family of Przebendowski. General [[Józef Przebendowski]] bought nine of these palaces and in 1786 his widow, Bernardyna Przebendowska (née [[von Kleist]]), bought the remaining two. Also the Sierakowski family acquired some properties, including the destroyed Swedish Manor.<ref name=hm1/> After the [[Partitions of Poland]], in the 1790s, Count {{interlanguage link|Kajetan Onufry Sierakowski|pl|display=1}} built the Sierakowski Mansion at the site of the Swedish Manor, a typical [[Manor houses of Polish nobility|Polish manor house]], which remains one of the most distinctive buildings of pre-spa Sopot.<ref name=hisarch/>