Hohenwutzen is a small village in the German

Germany

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 province of Brandenburg

Brandenburg

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, located on the Oder

Oder

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 river. Since 2003, Hohenwutzen is part of Bad Freienwalde

Bad Freienwalde

Bad Freienwalde is a spa town in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on an old branch of the Oder river at the northwestern rim of the Oderbruch basin, east of Eberswalde, and northeast of Berlin, near the border with Poland...

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It is the site of a border crossing

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 on the main road connecting Bad Freienwalde, Germany

Germany

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 with Chojna

Chojna

Chojna is a small town in western Poland in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It lies approximately 60 km south of Szczecin and participates in the Douzelage....

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 (formerly the German town of Königsberg in der Neumark). The adjacent Polish village is called Osinów Dolny

Osinów Dolny

Osinów Dolny is Poland's westernmost settlement, in the administrative district of Gmina Cedynia, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, on the border with Germany...

 - which, when it used to be part of Germany, was called Niederwutzen; the toponyms Hohen- and Nieder- indicate "upper" and "lower" respectively. The name of the Polish settlement is a calque

Calque

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of the old German name.