Nieporęt Municipality – Plac Wolności (Freedom Square) in Nieporęt

The first written record of Nieporęt dates from 1387, when the parish in Wieliszew was founded. By the turn of the 15th century it was already a sizeable settlement of forest beekeepers. In 1484 Bolesław V, Duke of Masovia, sold Nieporęt to the two Prażmowski brothers. After the death of the last Dukes of Masovia, Janusz and Stanisław, Nieporęt – together with the whole of Masovia – became a royal estate in 1526.

When Sigismund III Vasa moved his seat from Kraków to Warsaw in 1596, a location was needed for a royal hunting lodge. The choice fell on Nieporęt, lying deep in the forest in the fork of the Vistula and the Narew, and at the same time on the route leading from Warsaw through Bródno to the crossing on the Narew and on along a branch of the Amber Road to the land of the Yotvingians.