Korsze is a town in

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 north-eastern

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, with 4,005 inhabitants (2022). It is a railroad junction, located along the major

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- Skandawa line and Ełk- Bartoszyce line. Krzysztof Raczkowski, the former musician and drummer for the Polish

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band Vader, spent his juvenile years in Korsze. After his death, he was buried in the local cemetery. Korsze is home to three historic water towers from the 1900s. One of the water towers is a Klönne-type water tower, of which only three exist. Four Polish citizens were murdered by

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in the settlement during

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Cities and towns in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship Kętrzyn County {{Kętrzyn-geo-stub