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unusual facts about Wiewiórki, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship



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.

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.

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.

Erhard of Queis

Queis and Polentz had ceded temporal power over their bishoprics to the Duke, and only retained the Lordships of Marienwerder und Schönberg.

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).

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.

Jan Długosz

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

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.

Klon

Klon, Szczytno County, a village in Gmina Rozogi, Szczytno County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland

Konrad von Erlichshausen

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

Lesk

Łęsk, a settlement in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland

Łyna

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

Łyna, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Lev Kopelev, a Soviet officer and later dissident, described how he was appalled by the acts of murder and looting against those who remained.

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).

Niedrzwica

Niedrzwica (IPA ɲɛdʒˈvitsa) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gołdap, within Gołdap County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.

Ogrodzieniec, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

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

The property had gone into debt and was in need of major investment when the German government and contributions from German industrials on initiative of Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau, gave Paul von Hindenburg clear title to Neudeck in 1927, for his services in World War I and as Reich President.

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

Sarni

Sarni Dół, a settlement in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in northern 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

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.

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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