Kłomino

Kłomino () is a ghost town in Poland, in Szczecinek County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship. In the past it was a large garrison and a training ground of the German Wehrmacht. After World War II, it was a base of the Soviet Army, and for many years it existed only on Soviet military maps. Since 1993, when the Red Army withdrew its forces from Poland, it has lain empty. Until 1992, there were 5,000 residents in Kłomino, today it is a ghost town. As of 2012, Kłomino had 12 residents. The town is located about 12 kilometres (7 miles) away from Borne Sulinowo.

==History== The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler Mieszko I in the 10th century. It formed part of the Wałcz County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, when it was annexed by Prussia, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany. Kłomino, located in a sparsely populated and densely wooded area of former German province of Pomerania, in the early 20th century was a little village known as Westfalenhof. In the 1930s, the Wehrmacht planners built a large military base here, together with a training ground. According to the Polish edition of Newsweek, in 1939 some 60,000 military personnel resided in Westfalenhof's barracks.