Sorkwity s is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in Mrągowo County

Mragowo County

Mrągowo County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Mrągowo, which lies ...

, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, or Warmia-Masuria Province , is a voivodeship in northeastern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Olsztyn...

, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

 (administrative district) called Gmina Sorkwity

Gmina Sorkwity

Gmina Sorkwity is a rural gmina in Mrągowo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Sorkwity, which lies approximately west of Mrągowo and east of the regional capital Olsztyn....

. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) west of Mrągowo

Mragowo

Mrągowo is a town in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of northeastern Poland, the capital of Mrągowo County and the seat the Gmina Mrągowo...

 and 43 km (27 mi) east of the regional capital Olsztyn

Olsztyn

Olsztyn is a city in northeastern Poland, on the Łyna River. Olsztyn has been the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since 1999. It was previously in the Olsztyn Voivodeship...

.

The village has a population of 770.

History

Sorkwity was founded in 1379 by the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Winrich von Kniprode

Winrich von Kniprode

Winrich von Kniprode was the 22nd Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. He was the longest serving Grand Master, holding the position for 31 years ....

. Since then, the village had many different owners. In 1804, the von Mirbach family acquired Sorkwity. The family build a neogothic palace in the village between 1850 and 1856.

Notable residents

• Johann Goercke
  Johann Goercke
  Johann Friedrich Goercke, was a Prussian army surgeon and author.Goercke was born in Sorquitten, East Prussia and became the personal physician of Friedrich II of Prussia...
  
   (1750-1822), surgeon
• Julius von Mirbach
  Julius von Mirbach
  Julius Graf von Mirbach was a German politician, born in Sorquitten, East Prussia.He studied law at University of Königsberg, Bonn, and Berlin and served as an officer in the Prussian Army, resigning in 1865....
  
  (1839–1921), politician