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Swieta Lipka

7.3 km

Święta Lipka is one of the most famous Polish Marian pilgrimage sites and is popular with pilgrims and tourists alike. The baroque pilgrimage church Heiligelinde was built by Jesuits in the village, which was East Prussian until 1945. The basilica with its cloister and monastery is one of the most important Baroque monuments in northern Poland. The Pope elevated it to the rank of basilica minor in 1983.

Sztynort

50 km

Count Heinrich von Lehndorff and his family lived in one wing of the castle, while the other half was used as the field quarters of Reich Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop in 1941. His staff lived in the nearby guest house "Jägerhöhe" on Lake Schwenzaitsee. Six kilometers north of Steinort, the Army High Command had built its "Mauerwald" field camp with an extensive bunker system. Eleven kilometers east of the village was Himmler's field command post "Hegewald", 25 km southwest was the "Führerhauptquartier Wolfsschanze", where the assassination attempt on Hitler took place on July 20, 1944.

85km

 

Borken Forest lies to the east of the Mauersee lake. Alongside the Johannisburg He ath and the Rominter Heath, the Borken Forest is one of the remaining large forest areas in north-eastern Poland and former East Prussia. The Borken Forest is separated from the Rominter Heath by the Seesker Heights. The forest partly covers higher hills such as the Lindenberg and the Teufelsberg, between which deep ravines, small streams, swamps and lakes spread out, and a forest reserve with a breeding station for bison extends near the Wallisko forester's lodge(Waldsee).

 

Reszel

16 km

Today, you can see a beautiful old town in Reszel, which is one of the best preserved in the region. Reszel Castle, a former bishop's castle built between 1350 and 1401 in the brick Gothic style, has been partly converted into a hotel and is partly open to the public. There are churches from the 14th and 18th centuries, a Jesuit college from the 17th century, a monastery from the 18th century and a town hall from the 19th century, which is not that old, but still worth seeing.


Wolf's Lair

32 km

Wolfsschanze was the cover name for a military situation center of the command staff of the German Wehrmacht. It was one of the Führer's headquarters during the Second World War and was located near Rastenburg (now Kętrzyn) near the village of Görlitz (Gierłoż) in East Prussia, now in Poland.