Karolewo is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Kętrzyn __NOTOC__ Gmina Kętrzyn is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic ...

, within

Kętrzyn County __NOTOC__ Kętrzyn County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the border with Russia. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local ...

, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of

Kętrzyn Kętrzyn (, until 1946 ''Rastembork''; ) is a town in northeastern Poland with 27,478 inhabitants (2019). It is the capital of Kętrzyn County in the Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship. The town is known for the surrounding Masurian Lakeland and num ...

and north-east of the regional capital

Olsztyn Olsztyn ( , ) is a city on the Łyna River in northern Poland. It is the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, and is a city with powiat rights, city with county rights. The population of the city was estimated at 169,793 residents Olsz ...

. The village was the location of the

Carlshof Institutions The Carlshof Institutions () was a Diakonie Deutschland, diaconal hospital in Karolewo, Kętrzyn County, Carlshof, East Prussia (Karolewo, Poland). Founded in 1882, it was located about east of the town center of Kętrzyn, Rastenburg (Kętrzyn). ...

from 1882 to 1940 which served as the

Wolfschanze The Wolf's Lair (; ) was Adolf Hitler's first Eastern Front (World War II), Eastern Front military headquarters in World War II. The headquarters was located in the Masurian woods, near the village of Görlitz (now Gierłoż, Kętrzyn County, ...

hospital from 1941 to 1945.

References

Villages in Kętrzyn County {{Kętrzyn-geo-stub