Hohenwutzen

Hohenwutzen is a small village in the

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state of

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...

, located on the

Oder The Oder ( , ; Czech, Lower Sorbian and ; ) is a river in Central Europe. It is Poland's second-longest river in total length and third-longest within its borders after the Vistula and Warta. The Oder rises in the Czech Republic and flows thr ...

river. Since 2003, Hohenwutzen is part of

Bad Freienwalde Bad Freienwalde is a spa town in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg, Germany. Geography The town is situated on the Alte Oder, an old branch of the Oder River at the northwestern rim of the Oderbruch basin and the steep rise of the ...

. It was part of It is one of the few villages of the historic

Neumark The Neumark (), also known as the New March ( pl, Nowa Marchia) or as East Brandenburg (), was a region of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and its successors located east of the Oder River in territory which became part of Poland in 1945. Calle ...

region still in Germany after 1945. It is the site of a

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on the main road connecting Bad Freienwalde,

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with

Chojna Chojna (german: Königsberg in der Neumark; csb, Czińsbarg; la, Regiomontanus Neomarchicus "King's Mountain in the New March") is a small town in northwestern Poland in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It lies approximately south of Szczeci ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

(formerly the German town of ''Königsberg in der Neumark''). The adjacent Polish village is called

Osinów Dolny Osinów Dolny (german: Niederwutzen) is Poland's westernmost settlement, in the administrative district of Gmina Cedynia, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, on the border with Germany. It lies approximate ...

- which, when it used to be part of Germany, was called ''Niederwutzen''; the toponyms ''Hohen-'' and ''Nieder-'' indicate "upper" and "lower" respectively. The name of the Polish settlement is a

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of the old German name. Villages in Brandenburg Localities in Märkisch-Oderland Germany–Poland border crossings {{Brandenburg-geo-stub