Kulsze | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Warmian-Masurian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Gołdap |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Banie Mazurskie |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 1576 |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 54.2667°N 27°W |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | NGO |
Kulsze is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Banie Mazurskie, within Gołdap County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.[1] It lies approximately 5km (03miles) north-east of Banie Mazurskie, 160NaN0 west of Gołdap, and 1170NaN0 north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn. It is located in the historic region of Masuria.
The origins of the village date back to 1576, when Maciej Sapała bought land to establish a village.[2] For centuries, it remained an ethnically Polish village.[2]