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unusual facts about Grunwald, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship


Jan Długosz

(After the 1945 conquest by Soviet Union and Poland Grünfelde was renamed Grunwald and Tannenberg was renamed Stębark.)


Alexander Samsonov

Shocked by the disastrous outcome of the battle and unable to face reporting the scale of the disaster, for which he knew he would be held responsible, to Tsar Nicholas II, Samsonov never arrived back at headquarters; he committed suicide on 30 August 1914 near Willenberg.

Alfred Grünwald

Johannes Theodor Baargeld, pseudonym of Alfred Emanuel Ferdinand Grünwald (1892–1927), German painter and poet

Andrzej Wiszowaty, Jr.

It appears that Andrzej Jr. was born while his father Benedykt Wiszowaty was a Unitarian minister in Kosinowo, in the Duchy of Prussia.

Barthold Fles

In 1936 Barthold married Ruth Grünwald, a dancer at the Metropolitan Opera who had been just one year in the United States.

Bavarian State Archaeological Collection

Grünwald: The Burgmuseum Grünwald (Grünwald Castle Museum) emphasizes Roman stone monuments and more broadly, the Roman Empire in Bavaria and beyond, including archaeological material from the castle site and the nearby Roman earthworks at the crossing of the Isar.

Bruno Doehring

In 1906 Doehring was a pastor in Tiefensee in East Prussia, where he started a family and his son Johannes was born, and in 1908 he was a pastor in Fischau in West Prussia.

Celestyn Myślenta

Celestyn Myślenta (also Mislenski; 27 March 1588 in Kuty (Kutten), Ducal Prussia – 20 April 1653 in Königsberg (Królewiec)) was a Polish Lutheran theologian and rector of the University of Königsberg.

Christopher von Dohna

He spent the years between 1624 and 1628 as living privately on his ancestral estate at Carwinden.

Cichy

Cichy, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (Czychen), a village in the administrative district of Gmina Świętajno

Dietrich Stobbe

Dietrich Stobbe (March 25, 1938 – February 19, 2011) was a German politician from Weepers, East Prussia.

Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten

Dohna-Schlobitten was born at Finckenstein (today Kamieniec, Poland) to Friedrich Alexander Burggraf und Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1741–1810) and Caroline née Finck von Finckenstein (1746–1825).

Glen Grunwald

Grunwald later became the President and CEO of the Toronto Board of Trade, the largest local business organization in Canada, and is heavily involved in both the business and social communities of Toronto.

Górowo Iławeckie

The church itself was used as a camp for Russian POW captured at Eylau and at the preluding battle of Hoofe (Dworzno).

Grodziczno, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Part of the Duchy of Warsaw (1807–13) during the Napoleonic Wars, the village was again annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia after the dissolution of the duchy.

Grunwald, Poznań

It is also bordered by the town of Luboń to the south, and the administrative districts (gminas) of Dopiewo to the west and Komorniki to the south-west.

Leading south-west from the station is the main street ulica Głogowska, which runs past Park Wilsona – a park named for U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, containing a band shell and Poznań's Palm House (Palmiarnia).

Iványi

Béla Iványi-Grünwald (1867–1940), Hungarian painter, member of the Nagybánya artists' colony, founder of the Kecskemét artists' colony

Kleparz

The most interesting sights in Kleparz are the Kleparz Market Square with colorful stalls and the Jan Matejko Square located almost side by side and flanked by the Academy of Fine Arts and the St. Florian Church with the Grunwald Monument at its centre.

Klewki, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Village has gained popularity, due to the claims of Bogdan Gasiński and Andrzej Lepper who stated that Talibans are growing anthrax there.

Konrad von Erlichshausen

Later that year he founded Krausendorf (Kruszewiec) near Rastenburg (Kętrzyn).

László Mednyánszky

He edgily tried to establish an association against the Pan-Slav agitators with Béla Grünwald.

Lenzkirch

The municipality is made up of the town of Lenzkirch (3341 inhabitants, including about 50 in the adjacent village of Grünwald) and the villages of Saig (812 inhabitants), Kappel (785), and Raitenbuch (152).

Lesk

Łęsk, a settlement in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland

Louis X, Duke of Bavaria

Louis X (German: Ludwig X, Herzog von Bayern), (Grünwald, 18 September 1495 – 22 April 1545 in Landshut) was Duke of Bavaria (1516–1545), together with his older brother William IV, Duke of Bavaria.

Łyna

Łyna, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (German: Lahne), a village in Poland near the source of the river

Natangians

In the 13th century when the Teutonic Knights began their crusade against the Prussians, some 15,000 people might have lived in the area between the rivers identified by the Knights as Pregel (now Pregolya) and Alle (now Łyna).

Ogrodzieniec, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Hindenburg titled the deed to Neudeck in the name of his son, Oskar von Hindenburg.

Piaskowiec

Piaskowiec, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Korsze, Poland

Rema s.c.

Company’s headquarters is situated in town Reszel (Warmińsko-mazurskie province).

Ruins of the Reich

In August 1999 the crew discovered several lost sites in Poland such as the ruins of the Tannenberg Memorial and Hindenburg's Neudeck estate as well as several well-known locations like Ordensburg Marienberg (Malbork Castle).

Ruś

Ruś, Olsztyn County, a village in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland

Ruś, Ostróda County, a village in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland

Rycerzewo

Rycerzewo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, a settlement in the Gmina Miłakowo, Ostróda County, Poland

Rygiel

Rygiel, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Gmina Kurzętnik, Nowe Miasto County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland

Sarnówek

Sarnówek, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Iława, Iława County, Poland

Słonecznik

Słonecznik, Szczytno County, a village in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland

Słonecznik, Ostróda County, a village in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland

Teutonic Knights in popular culture

The Order and its relations with Poland, Masovia, and Lithuania are the main subject of Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz's historical novel The Teutonic Knights, which describes the era of the Battle of Grunwald from the Polish point of view.

Warszewo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (East Prussia), Judendorf (lit.:"Jewsvillage") was renamed "Hermannswalde" in 1936 by Nazi German authorities.

Wiewiórki, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

After World War II the area was placed under Polish administration according to the post-war Potsdam Agreement.

Eichhorn has been founded by German settlers throughout the Ostsiedlung in the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights and was first mentioned in 1414, when the settlement was damaged by Polish troops in the Polish-Teutonic Hunger War.

Germans fled or were expelled and replaced with Poles, many of them expelled from the Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union or forced to settle in the area throughout the Operation Vistula in 1947.

Wilhelm Grunwald

Wilhelm Grunwald (1909–1989) was a German mathematician who introduced the Grunwald–Wang theorem, though his original statement and proof of this contained a small error that was corrected by Shianghao Wang.

WYCD

Morning Show (5 a.m.-10 a.m.): The Dr. Don Morning Show - Dr. Don Carpenter, Rachael Hunter, Steve Grunwald & Jason The 300lb Cowboy

Zbylut

Zbyluty, a settlement in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland

Żywkowo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

After World War II the place of German displaced residents, replaced by Ukrainian displaced from the operation "Vistula" and today their descendants inhabit the village.


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