Szczytno

Szczytno is a town in north eastern Poland with 27,970 populations. Szczytno is located in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodship however turned into previously in Olsztyn Voivodship 1975 to 1998. Olsztyn Mazury Regional Airport, placed nearby, is the maximum essential airport of the Masurian place. Szczytno, that's located at the Olsztyn Elk line, and used to be a railroad junction till Polish Railways closed minor connections stemming from the metropolis in the direction of Czerwinski and Wilber Near present day Szczytno are the handiest acknowledged megalithic tombs in Warmia Masuria and the previous East Prussia.

The city turned into at the start an Old Prussian agreement. Between 1350 and 1360 Ortolf von Trier, a knight of the Teutonic Order and the Komtur of Elblag founded a fortress inside the Old Prussian vicinity of Galindia possibly close to an Old Prussian settlement. The first mention of the citadel, eponymously named Ortulfsburg, becomes a file from September 1360, after Ortolf invited Masovian colonists, among whom the agreement has become called Szczytno. The first custodian of the settlement becomes Heinrich Murer. In 1370 the wood castles become destroyed by way of Lithuanians led by Kestutis, and then it changed into rebuilt the use of stone.