Mokry Dwor - Nassenhuben

Up to 1945 this little village was named Nassenhuben.

In 1754 Georg Forster was born here. At an early age, he accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, who had been the pastor of this village, on James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific.

His report of that journey, "A Voyage Round the World", contributed significantly to the ethnology of the people of Polynesia.

He was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer and journalist. He was a central figure of the Enlightenment in Germany. His ideas and personality influenced Alexander von Humboldt, with whom he travelled down the Rhine. Forster played a leading role in the Mainz Republic, the earliest republican state in Germany. While he was in Paris as a delegate of the Mainz Republic, Prussian and Austrian coalition forces regained control of the city and Forster was declared an outlaw. Unable to return to Germany he died in Paris in 1794.