Olecko

Olecko is a metropolis in Masuria, in the Warmian Masurian Voivodeship of Poland, near Elk and Suwalki. It is situated at the mouth of the Lega River which flows into the Great Olecko Lake on its south-western shore. Olecko is the seat of Olecko County. Marggrabowa changed into founded as a town through Albert of Brandenburg Ansbach, Duke of the Duchy of Prussia, on January 1, 1560. The metropolis's Masurian Slavic-sounding name is derived from the German phrase Markgraf, the duke's title because the margraviate of Brandenburg's prince. The town's coat of hands nevertheless reflects the Brandenburg pink eagle and the Hohenzollern black and white which go returned to Albert of Brandenburg Prussia.

The population became Lutheran-Protestant within the Duchy of Prussia in 1525. At the identical location as the existing location of the metropolis there has been a searching hotel referred to as Oletzko in view that 1544. At a peninsula towards the lake, throughout the Lega River, in 1619 the Castle of Oletzko becomes hooked up as a nearby administrative seat for the Dukes of Prussia. Between 1818 and 1945, Marggrabowa changed into the seat of Oletzko County within the province of East Prussia.