 The expressway S7 running from Gdańsk via Olsztynek to Warsaw, currently under construction, is part of the European route E77.A direct link to Olsztyn will be provided by the expressway S51

Several decades after the subjugation of the Old Prussians, Hohenstein Castle was erected from 1351 to colonize the Sasna lands at the behest of Günter von Hohenstein, Komtur of the Teutonic Knights at Osterode commandry.A parish church was mentioned for 1348.