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| Country |  Poland |
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| Voivodeship | Warmian-Masurian | ||
| County | Kętrzyn County | ||
| Gmina | Kętrzyn (urban gmina) | ||
| Established | 1329 | ||
| Town rights | 1357 | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Grzegorz Waldemar Prokop | ||
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| - Total | 10. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Voivodeship The voivodeship or province (województwo has been a high-level Administrative subdivision of Poland since the 14th century Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (also known as Warmia-Masuria Province or by its Polish name województwo warmińsko-mazurskie or simply Warmińsko-Mazurskie A powiat (pronounced; Polish plural powiaty) is the second-level unit of Local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a County Kętrzyn County (powiat kętrzyński is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( Powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland The gmina or Municipality (frequently translated commune) plural gminy, is the principal unit (lowest level of territorial division in Poland Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 34 km² (4 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| - Total | 28,000 | ||
| - Density | 2,707. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 9/km² (7,013. 5/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 11-400 | ||
| Area code(s) | +48 89 | ||
| Car plates | NKE | ||
| Website: http://www.ketrzyn.pl/ | |||
Kętrzyn [ˈkɛntʂɨn] (
listen) (German: Rastenburg ( listen); former Polish: Rastembork) is a town in northeastern Poland with 28,351 inhabitants (2004). Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time Daylight saving time ( DST Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks In common with many Countries, Polish car number plates indicate the Region of Registration of the Vehicle encoded in the number plate The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Polish ( język polski, polszczyzna) is the Official language of Poland. A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Situated in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (since 1999), Kętrzyn was previously in Olsztyn Voivodeship (1975-1998). Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (also known as Warmia-Masuria Province or by its Polish name województwo warmińsko-mazurskie or simply Warmińsko-Mazurskie Olsztyn Voivodeship (województwo olsztyńskie was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975 &ndash 1998, superseded It is the capital of Kętrzyn County. Kętrzyn County (powiat kętrzyński is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( Powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland
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History
Before 1945, the town was in the German province of East Prussia, and was known in German as Rastenburg and in Polish as Rastembork. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. East Prussia (Ostpreußen; Rytų Prūsija or Rytprūsiai; Prusy Wschodnie Восточная Пруссия or Vostochnaya Prussiya) refers to the main part
Adolf Hitler's wartime military headquarters, the Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair), was located in the forests east of Rastenburg. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately The bunker was the setting for the failed July 20 Plot against Hitler. The ruins of the Wolfsschanze, blown up by the retreating Germans in 1945, are an important tourist attraction.
Rastenburg was occupied by the Red Army in 1945 near the end of World War II. The Red Army ( Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия R aboche- K rest'yanskaya K rasnaya A rmiya World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including After the war ended, it was placed under Polish administration according to the Potsdam Conference. The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, Germany, from July 16, Its German residents who had not evacuated were subsequently expelled westward and replaced with Poles. The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as The evacuation of East Prussia refers to the evacuation of the German civilian population and military personnel in East Prussia and the Klaipėda region The expulsion of Germans after World War II was the Forced migration and Ethnic cleansing of German nationals ( Reichsdeutsche) and ethnic The Polish people, or Poles, (Polacy) are a Western Slavic Ethnic group of Central Europe, living predominantly in Poland. The town was renamed Kętrzyn after the Masurian activist Wojciech Kętrzyński.
People
- Karl Bogislaus Reichert, German anatomist
- Oskar Schmoling, Youngest POW of WWII
- Wilhelm Wien, physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Gallery
 Church in German Backstein Gothic style |
 Monument of Wojciech Kętrzyński in Kętrzyn |
 Castle |
Twin towns
Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Wesel, Zlate Hory
External links
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