Wokiele | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Coordinates: | 54.3269°N 20.5514°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Warmian-Masurian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Bartoszyce |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Górowo Iławeckie |
Wokiele (German: Wokellen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Górowo Iławeckie, within Bartoszyce County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.[1]
The village was mentioned in 1570 as Wockellenn, in 1785 as Wockellen.[2] In 1889 it was a 279 ha estate belonging to the Struve family who were also owners of the nearby village of Piasty Wielkie. It was marked in a map from 1907 as Gut Wokellen.