Tołkiny 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 Korsze Gmina Korsze is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the town of Korsze, which lies approximately north-west of Kętrzyn and north-east of the regiona ...

, 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

Korsze Korsze is a town in Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, with 4,005 inhabitants (2022). It is a railroad junction, located along the major Olsztyn- Skandawa line and Ełk- Bartoszyce line. Krzysztof Raczkowsk ...

, west 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 ...

. According to the findings of German genealogists, the

Tolkien family The Tolkien family is an English family of German descent whose best-known member is J. R. R. Tolkien, Oxford academic and author of the fantasy books ''The Hobbit'', ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Silmarillion''. Etymology According to ...

probably comes from Tołkiny.Tołkiny na Warmii gniazdem rodu Tolkienów?
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Notable residents

Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten Heinrich Burgrave, Burggraf und Graf zu Dohna (disambiguation)#People, Dohna-Schlobitten (15 October 1882 – 14 September 1944) was a Nazi Germany, German major general and German resistance to Nazism, resistance fighter in the 20 July Plot to a ...

(1882-1944), German general and resistance fighter

References

Villages in Kętrzyn County {{Kętrzyn-geo-stub