Zielenica, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship


Zielenica 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. It lies approximately south-east of Górowo Iławeckie, west of Bartoszyce, and north of the regional capital Olsztyn. Above the village, towards the west, lays the highest hill in the area
A vast necropolis was located near Zielenica in the form of individual kurgans separated by several hundred meters. The first mounds, surrounded by a stone circle, were discovered in the late nineteenth century with richly decorated dishes and elements of bronze ornaments in them.

Population

  • 1933: 429
  • 1939: 406