Srokowo
Sign in to saveSrokowo (until 1946 Dryfort, ) is a village in Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Srokowo. It is located in Masuria. It lies approximately north-east of Kętrzyn and north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Srokowo
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Town hall in Srokowo (2).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Baroque Town hall and granary
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Warmian-Masurian
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kętrzyn
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Srokowo
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Poland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- CEST
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +2
- Settlement.population_total
- 1400
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Srokowo (until 1946 Dryfort, ) is a village in Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Srokowo. It is located in Masuria. It lies approximately north-east of Kętrzyn and north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
==History== thumb|left|Gothic architecture|Gothic Church of the Holy Cross The settlement was founded sometime before 1397 with a grid plan. In 1405 it received town privileges modeled on the city law of Chełmno by the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Konrad von Jungingen. During the Middle Ages the town defences consisted of palisades, a dry moat and three gates. In 1454, King Casimir IV Jagiellon incorporated the region to the Kingdom of Poland upon the request of the anti-Teutonic Prussian Confederation. After the subsequent Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466), it became a part of Poland as a fief held by the Teutonic Knights. Construction of the church was finished in 1409 and renovated in 1577. A school was founded in the town in 1592.