Słobity 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 Wilczęta __NOTOC__ Gmina Wilczęta is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Braniewo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Wilczęta, which lies approximately south of Braniewo and north-west of the re ...

, within

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

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

Wilczęta Wilczęta is a village in Braniewo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Wilczęta. It lies approximately south of Braniewo and north-west of the regional ca ...

, south of

Braniewo Braniewo () (, , Old Prussian language, Old Prussian: ''Brus''), is a town in northern Poland, in Warmia, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, with a population of 16,907 as of June 2021. It is the capital of Braniewo County. Braniewo is the seco ...

, and north-west 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 had been the property of the since 1527. The last German owner of the palace Alexander zu Dohna renovated the Słobity Palace in 1944. In March 1945 the palace was burned down and the furnishings stolen by soldiers of the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...

. . Jackiewicz-Garniec, M. Garniec: Pałace i dwory dawnych Prus Wschodnich. Dobra utracone czy ocalone. Olsztyn: Wspólnota Kulturowa BORUSSIA, 1999, s. 64–65. in lang/pl

Notable residents

* Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1661–1728), field marshal * Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1771–1831), Prussian politician * Karl Friedrich Emil zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1784–1859), field marshal *

Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten Heinrich Burgrave, Burggraf und Graf zu Dohna (disambiguation)#People, Dohna-Schlobitten (15 October 1882 – 14 September 1944) was a Nazi Germany, German major general and German resistance to Nazism, resistance fighter in the 20 July Plot to a ...

(1882–1944), General and resistance fighter *

Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1899–1997) Wilhelm Hermann Alexander Fürst zu Dohna-Schlobitten (Alexander, Prince zu Dohna-Schlobitten; 11 December 1899 – 29 October 1997) was a German ''Junker'', soldier, businessman and author. Early life Dohna was born in Potsdam, the son of Rich ...

, officer and businessman

References

External links

* http://slobity.com.pl Villages in Braniewo County {{Braniewo-geo-stub