Białuty is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the administrative district of

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

, within

Działdowo County __NOTOC__ Działdowo County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed ...

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

Iłowo-Osada Iłowo-Osada is a village in Działdowo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Iłowo-Osada. It lies approximately south-east of Działdowo and south of the ...

, east of

Działdowo Działdowo (; , ) is a town in northern Poland with 20,935 inhabitants as of December 2021, the capital of Działdowo County. As part of Masuria, it is situated in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (since 1999), Działdowo belonged previously to Cie ...

, and south of the regional capital

Olsztyn Olsztyn ( , ) is a city on the Łyna River in northern Poland. It is the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, and is a city with powiat rights, city with county rights. The population of the city was estimated at 169,793 residents Olsz ...

. The village structure of Bialutten was shaped by the manor estate (Rittergut) and its outlying farms, Eichberg (Polish: Dębini) and Prusken (Polish: Pruski). Postcards from the period before World War II depict, alongside the manor house ("Schloss"), both the Protestant and Catholic churches as well as the "Gasthaus Aug. Sawetzki". Today, the manor estate, the Protestant church, and the hereditary burial site of the Oehlrich estate-owning family are in ruins. In July 2022, two mass graves were found in the nearby Białuty Forest. The graves contained ca. 17 tonnes of human ashes, estimated to originate from at least 8000 inmates of the

Soldau concentration camp The Soldau concentration camp established by Nazi Germany during World War II was a concentration camp for Polish and Jewish prisoners. It was located in Działdowo (), a town in north-eastern Poland, which after the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland ...

(1940–1944).

References

Villages in Działdowo County {{Działdowo-geo-stub