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unusual facts about Olsztyn, Silesian Voivodeship



Alfreda and Bolesław Pietraszek

The ceremony at which the Yad Vashem titles were granted to Alfreda and Bolesław Pietraszek took place during the inauguration of the Festival of the Jewish Culture in Olsztyn, popularized by Gazeta Wyborcza and other Polish media.

Battle of Tannenberg

Although the battle actually took place close to Allenstein (Olsztyn), General Erich Ludendorff's aide, Colonel Max Hoffmann, suggested naming it after Tannenberg, in the interest of German nationalist ideology, to counter the defeat of the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg) in 1410 by Poles and Lithuanians.

Cyryl Klimowicz

After ordination he served as vicar in the cities Wydminy, Pasłęk and Klewki under Olsztyn, participated in the construction of a new seminary in Olsztyn.

Częstochowa Ghetto

--Olsztyn village, now housing estate in Bełchatów-->, Mstów, Janów, Przyrów, as well as hundreds of expellees from Polish lands annexed into the Reich at the beginning of war, mostly from Płock and Łódź.

Elżbieta Bieńkowska

Bieńkowska began her administrative career working in the Business Department of the Silesian Voivodeship, where she was involved in the local application of the EU's Phare programme.

Eugeniusz Geno Malkowski

Between 1991 and 2012 he has been working as a Professor of Art at UWM in Olsztyn.

Georg Sterzinsky

Sterzinsky was born in Warlack (earlier also Wurlacken, Warlaucken, now Worławki, Olsztyn County), Landkreis Heilsberg, in German East Prussia.

Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski

Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski (born 24 July 1922 in Allenstein, East Prussia (now Olsztyn, Poland); died 24 February 2005 in Cologne) was a German Social Democrat politician.

Holy Dead Trinity

Tracks 1–5 were recorded and mixed at Selani Studio, Olsztyn in September 1998.

Korsze

It is a railroad junction, located along the major Olsztyn - Ełk - Białystok line, with less important connections to Bartoszyce and Skandawa.

Mandry

In two week's time they managed to play 11 concerts in cities like Wrocław, Warsaw, Kraków, Szczecin, Gliwice, Białystok, Olsztyn, Sopot and Lublin.

Michał Grażyński

Michał Grażyński (May 12, 1890, in Gdów – December 10, 1965, in London, United Kingdom) was a Polish military leader, social and political activist, doctor of philosophy and law, voivode of the Silesian Voivodeship, Scouting activist and president of Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego.

Obluda

Today, the region falls within Polish borders, being known as Olsztyn, Poland.

Olsztyn, Silesian Voivodeship

Furthermore, there are ashes of hundreds of Soviet POWs, shot by Germans in 1941-1944 (see Nazi crimes against Soviet POWs).

Near the castle is the parish church of St. John, built in 1722 - 26 by Jerzy Lubomirski.

Its original name was Holsztyn, which is a Polonized version of a German word Holstein (or Hohlenstein); the name refers to German settlers, who founded the village in the Middle Ages (see Ostsiedlung, Walddeutsche).

Pieczewo, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Pieczewo (Stolzenburg) is also the name of an urban part of Olsztyn (Allenstein), which is well known for the FM- and TV-mast Olsztyn-Pieczewo, today's tallest man-made structure of Poland, which is among the tallest in Europe.

PIONIER

Currently the network connects Białystok, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Puławy, Radom, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław, Koszalin, Szczecin, Olsztyn and Zielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s patch-cord, and consists of 5738,86 km of optical fiber.

Piotr Wiwczarek

Piotr Wiwczarek (born 22 October 1965 in Poland in Olsztyn), also known as Peter, (ex nickname Behemoth) is a Polish guitarist and vocalist who is the frontman for the death metal band Vader.

Silesian Voivodeship

The voivodship capital enjoys good railway and road connections with Gdańsk (motorway A1) and Ostrava (motorway A1), Kraków (motorway A4), Wrocław (motorway A4), Łódź (motorway A1) and Warsaw.

It is also the crossing point for many international routes like E40 connecting Calais, Brussels, Cologne, Dresden, Wrocław, Kraków and Kiev and E75 from Scandinavia to the Balkans.

University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

The University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn was established on September 1, 1999, in accordance with the new Statute of Sejm signed by the President of the Republic of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, as well as the Minister of National Education, Mirosław Handke, in August of the same year.

Zbigniew Małkowski

Zbigniew "Zibi" Małkowski (born January 19, 1978 in Olsztyn) is a Polish professional association football player.


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