Mażucie

Mażucie
Village
Mażucie
Coordinates: 54°20′N 22°11′E / 54.333°N 22.183°E / 54.333; 22.183
Country Poland Poland
Voivodeship Warmian-Masurian
County Gołdap
Gmina Gołdap

Mażucie [maˈʐut͡ɕe] (German: Oberhofen, until 1938: Masutschen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gołdap, within Gołdap County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.[1] It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) west of Gołdap and 126 km (78 mi) north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn.

Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (East Prussia) Until 1938 the village was called Masutschen and renamed Oberhofen 16 July 1938.

References


Coordinates: 54°19′54″N 22°10′31″E / 54.3317°N 22.1753°E / 54.3317; 22.1753


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/2/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.