The first inhabitants of today's Rewal borough were Vandals. Between the 5 th and 6 th centuries Vends settled in the area. That is where the name Pomerania comes from, as well as the German names with an "-ow" ending. Later on, Polish and Danish peoples passed through, but eventually these lands were joined into the country of Poland. Otto from Bamberg started to Christianize the area under Polish sovereignty from the year 1124. From 1181 Pomerania became a German fief, and already a few of today's towns existed: Rewal, Pustkowo, Śliwin and Niechorze. Rewal was written down as a rightful village in the 15 th century.

In the thirties of the 16 th century the Reformation came to our lands. During the Thirty-year war, in 1630 Swedes settled down here. They felt so much at home, that they refused to leave for Brandenburg, until in 1650 the border commission in Szczecin drew a border between the countries that passed exactly along today's western border of Rewal borough. One the east side of this border was Brandenburg. The next nation that appeared here were Cossacks, who plundered the surrounding villages between 1758-1761. In the 19 th century, some of Napoleon's army divisions honored us with their presence.

From the year 1811 we were under Prussian administration. After WWII we became part of Poland. The diversity of nations and cultures living in this area throughout the years created a peculiar dialect, different from German, that was still used in the first half of the 20 th century. For example, the river near Rewal was called Rigose in German, and Rejous in the dialect. Also surnames are not clearly German, but more Swedish or Danish. Until World War II all the towns were administratively boroughs all governed by today's equivalent of a borough.

Older "Rewalians" proudly admitted that the famous German Helgoland resort is only a year older. Important events were organized on the Spring Square (the square next to the post office) and their culmination was memorialized with the first in this town's history fireworks show. This is also where weekly concerts were organized for summertime tourists. At the time, only the very rich could afford a vacation at the seaside, because one had to take along everything from home, including linens and duvets. The opening of the narrow-gauge railway in 1896 was a great improvement - it made traveling more convenient, bringing more tourists and increasing the fish sales. Thanks to the railway, a trip from Berlin to Rewal took only 6 hours already in the thirties of the 20 th century. Today's popular choo-choo started to run three times a day from the time the Niechorze rail was extended to Trzebiatów. Tourism helped Rewal develop faster than any town in the area. In 1900 it had 144 inhabitants, and only 10 years later the number more than doubled to 299 and made Rewal the largest borough between the Dzwina estuary and Mrzeżyno. During the 20 years between the wars, from 2000 to 3000 tourists would come to Rewal every year. Because of the holiday-makers, two balnearies were built in the years 1906-1908: one was for ladies, the other for men, situated at a decent distance from each other. The ladies' house was near Spring Square, the men's was on the other side of the river. Each housed changing and clothing-storage facilities. In 1924 the men's house was closed and torn down after having been partially destroyed by a sea storm. Rewal also had one of the fastest VFD in the area, thanks to their fire engine. They took care of fires from Little Pobierowo to Niechorze. Fans of eel fishing eagerly visited our lands, with great conditions from the cliffs of Trzęsacz to Niechorze. The twenties of the past century brought new chances of development. Rewal joined the German Baltic Spa Union, which offered the possibility of promotion in the whole country.

During the great crisis, there were ideas of building a steam-house and digging in search of saltsprings. Both ideas turned out to be failures and only brought the borough into large debts.

The thirties brought vigorous development after the time of the great crisis. In 1932, Ewald Paul opened a travel agency and car rental in Rewal. Tennis courts were built, the aesthetic aspect of the town was taken care of much more than earlier. Also in the year 1934 a new memorial statue was built for those killed in World War I, on the square near the steam-house. A few years before the war, the breakwaters were built, in order to prevent the sea from destroying the town, as it did in Trzęsacz.

Source: "Rewal - the history of a fishermen's village" by Herman Bolek