Łyna (village)

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Coordinates: 53°26′N 20°25′E / 53.433, 20.417
Łyna
Łyna
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Warmian-Masurian
Powiat	Nidzica County
Gmina	Nidzica
City Rights	1387
Government
- Mayor
Population
- Total	440
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	13-100
Area code(s)	+48 89
Car Plates	NNI
Website: www.nidzica.pl

Łyna ['wɨna] (German: Lahna) is a village in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland, 16 km north of Nidzica (German: Neidenburg) in Nidzica County. It has a population of 440.

The village is situated near the source of the River Alle which is also named Łyna in Polish.

[edit] History

The village shares most of its history with that of Nidzica (German: Neidenburg) and Landkreis Neidenburg.

It was first mentioned on 12 March 1387. At least since 1540 until 1945, Lahna was the seat of an evangelical Kirchspiel (church parrish) that included the towns of Allendorf, Commusin, Dietrichsdorf, Gutfeld, Glinken, Jablonken, Lykusen, Orlau, Radomin, Terten, Wolfsgarten, Wolka.

The Battle of Tannenberg (1914) of August 1914 took place nearby.

In 1945, while many if not most German civilians had fled the area, many of those who remained experienced atrocities at the hands of Soviet soldiers who found themselves on German soil for the first time. Lev Kopelev, a Soviet officer and later dissident, described how he was appalled by the acts of murder and looting against those who remained. In the post-war settlement, Neidenburg fell within the area of East Prussia annexed by Poland and the remaining German population was expelled. The area has been henceforth known by its present official name, Łyna.