The article discusses the history of the landed estates of Szczytno in the 19th and 20th centuries until 1945, when on the basis of the Decree of 6 September 1944 on land reform imposed by the Polish Communist authority , they were confiscated from the owner and divided among the inhabitants of the village. The article presents the changes in the property’s administrative affiliation, which were related to successive decrees and laws on administrative division both during the period of Partitions and after 1918. It presents the successive owners of the property, the Dąmbski vel Dąbski, Popowski, Rybiński and Byszewski families (among others). It shows how the structure of the property and its area was changed and later reduced by the enfranchisement of the peasants and the abolishment of servitudes (corvées). The sketch shows that in addition to the activities of the owners themselves, their landowning status was also influenced by state edicts or statutes that regulated the relationship between the manor and the inhabitants of the village, e.g. the issue of their servitudes and their abolishment. The article was mainly written on the basis of archival records, mostly those gathered in the Toruń State Archives’branch in Włocławek. They are mainly mortgage registers and files from the head of the Włocławek district 1808–1866 [1888]. The query was supplemented with literature on the subject, and also with articles from the daily press of the time.