Gross-Lubin in the Graudenz (Grudziądz) district, belonging to Poland, and from 1772 to Prussia, situated on the left bank of the Vistula River, like the adjacent hamlet of Klein-Lubin was from 1591 a Holländerdorf, i.e., a village settled by Dutch Mennonite immigrants. In 1623 it obtained exemption from the military tax and from obligatory quartering of soldiers, and in the lease of 1640, was granted freedom of religion, though it was not allowed to erect a meetinghouse. The Mennonites here were members of the congregation of Montau-Gruppe Mennonite Church. Both Gross-Lubin and Klein-Lubin repeatedly had much to suffer from floods. For this reason and also because the Polish Catholic clergy were very hostile to them, most Mennonites in the 18th century moved from here to other places.

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