Brożówka

Brożówka
Village
Brożówka
Coordinates: 54°6′N 21°58′E / 54.100°N 21.967°E / 54.100; 21.967
Country Poland Poland
Voivodeship Warmian-Masurian
County Giżycko
Gmina Kruklanki

Brożówka [brɔˈʐufka] (German: Gansenstein)[1] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kruklanki, within Giżycko County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[2] It lies approximately 16 kilometres (10 mi) north-east of Giżycko and 103 km (64 mi) east of the regional capital Olsztyn.

Gansenstein manour ("Friedrichsruh"), located close to Hitler's Wolfschanze, was a headquarters of Heinrich Himmler in World War II. Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (East Prussia).

After World War II the area was placed under Polish administration by the Potsdam Agreement under territorial changes demanded by the Soviet Union. Germans fled or were expelled and replaced with Poles expelled from the Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union or forced to settle in the area through Operation Vistula in 1947.

References

  1. ↑ "Former Territory of Germany" (in German). 2017-11-09.
  2. ↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.


Coordinates: 54°6′N 21°58′E / 54.100°N 21.967°E / 54.100; 21.967


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