Wysocze is a village in the Ostrów district. Kolberg called it Wysoce. He came here for the first time in 1843 writing in his notes that he goes to “the Suski family and Norwid”. In 1857, in a letter to Teofil Lenartowicz he remembered this trip and the evening when he organized his manuscripts in “the thatched house of Mr Ludwik Norwid”.

Ludwik Norwid, the brother of Cyprian, was one of the first travelling companions of Kolberg. They had a sister, Paulina Suska, who also had to be a friend of Kolberg. The reason for that is because Kolberg dedicated to her his series of Kujawiaks, probably because of her hospitality.

According to the Kolberg manuscripts, in 1862 he came to Wysocze again. He collected here, among other things, the account of New Year’s cakes and pastries:

“On New Year’s Eve, the peasants bake ‘pfeferkuchen’, a kind of gingerbread produced from flower, honey and pepper. It is dried on a stove. People exchange them at a party or after mass. Boys give them to girls and the other way round; neighbours can give them to us as New Year’s presents. This exchange is accompanied by a boozy feast”.

Kolberg collected here also some songs, many of them are related to an eternal conflict between mothers and daughter-in-laws.