Szczurkowo

Szczurkowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sępopol, within Bartoszyce County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, at the border of Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It lies approximately north-west of Sępopol, north-east of Bartoszyce, and north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
[image:Schloss Schoenbruch Sammlung Duncker.jpg|thumb|right|The manor house of Schönbruch about 1869 (burnt down in 1945)]
Modern-day Szczurkowo is the southern part of the village that was partitioned in 1945 by the Poland–Russia border. The northern part is in the Kaliningrad Oblast and uninhabited.

Notable residents

Otto von Bolschwing,, intelligence officer and businessman

Population

1931: 1,004
1939: 1,139

Wildlife

Szczurkowo is one of the largest nesting sites of the white stork in Poland, with several pairs breeding here annually.