Galiny, Gmina Bartoszyce

Galiny
Village
Country Poland
Voivodeship Warmian-Masurian
County Bartoszyce
Gmina Gmina Bartoszyce
Population 910

Galiny [ɡaˈlʲinɨ] (German: Gallingen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bartoszyce, within Bartoszyce County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.[1]

The village was first mentioned in 1336. In 1468 the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Heinrich Reuss von Plauen gave the village as a fief to Went von Eulenburg (Yleburg), a member of the House of Wettin, and Gallingen remained property of the Eulenburg family until 1945, when the last owner Botho Wendt zu Eulenburg, was deported to the Soviet Union.[2][3]

The manor house dates back to 1589 and was built by Botho zu Eulenburg. Initially it had the shape of an "U" and was surrounded by a water-filled moat and a drawbridge. The manor was not destroyed throughout World War II but slowly fell into ruins in the postwar years. Since 1995 it is reconstructed and today used as a hotel.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ↑ history, showing an ancient painting (in German)
  3. ↑ Eulenburg family (in German)
  4. ↑ History of Gallingen


Coordinates: 54°10′N 20°50′E / 54.167°N 20.833°E / 54.167; 20.833

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