Kuty (german: Kutten) is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Pozezdrze __NOTOC__ Gmina Pozezdrze is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Węgorzewo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Pozezdrze, which lies approximately south-east of Węgorzewo and north-east o ...

, within

Węgorzewo County __NOTOC__ Węgorzewo County ( pl, powiat węgorzewski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the border with Russia. It was created in 2002 out of the northern pa ...

, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of

Pozezdrze Pozezdrze (german: Possessern) is a village in Węgorzewo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Pozezdrze. It lies approximately south-east of Węgorzewo and ...

, east of Węgorzewo, and north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn. It is located on the northern and eastern shore of Lake Czarna Kuta in the region of Masuria.

History

Kuty was founded by Polish people in 1552. The local landmark

Gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

Saint Maximilian Kolbe church was built in the late 16th century. In 1710, the village was hit by an epidemic, commemorated by a painting in the church by order of the local pastor Paweł Drygalski. Under Nazi Germany, a labour camp of the Reich Labour Service was operated in the village. After Germany's defeat in World War II, in 1945, the village became again part of Poland.

Notable residents

Celestyn Myślenta Celestyn Myślenta (also ''Mislenski''; 27 March 1588 in Kuty (Kutten), Ducal Prussia – 20 April 1653 in Königsberg (Królewiec)) was a Polish Lutheran theologian and rector of the University of Königsberg. Celestyn was the son of Mateusz Myś ...

(1588–1653), Polish Lutheran theologian and university lecturer *

Bernhard Sauvant Bernhard is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar (1604–1639), Duke of Saxe-Weimar * Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1901–1984), head of the House of Saxe-Meiningen 19 ...

(1910–1967), Wehrmacht officer

References

Populated lakeshore places in Poland Villages in Węgorzewo County 1552 establishments in Poland Populated places established in 1552 {{Węgorzewo-geo-stub