| Kwitajny | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Warmian-Masurian |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Elbląg |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Pasłęk |
| Coordinates: | 54.0181°N 19.8036°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Population Total: | 253 |
Kwitajny is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pasłęk, within Elbląg County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 10km (10miles) east of Pasłęk, 280NaN0 east of Elbląg, and 530NaN0 north-west of the regional capital Olsztyn.
The village of Quittainen was a part of East Prussia. The estate of the same name was held by the East Prussian noble family Dönhoff until 1945, when its last overseer, Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, fled from the advancing Red Army on horseback. Ms. Dönhoff, who had been active in the conspiracy against Hitler, eventually became publisher of the liberal weekly Die Zeit.
The village, like the rest of southern East Prussia, was awarded by the winning coalition in World War II to Poland and taken from Germany following the Potsdam Conference, and its name was Polonized as Kwitajny.
Marion Gräfin Dönhoff (1909-2002), lived here until 1945