Boyen Fortress
Boyen Fortress is a former Prussian fortress located in the western part of Giżycko, in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northeastern Poland. It is situated on a narrow isthmus between two large lakes of the Masurian Lake District, Kisajno and Niegocin.Photo: Semu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Most obrotowy w Giżycku and Giżycko train station.
Most obrotowy w Giżycku
Photo: ZeroJeden, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.
Most obrotowy w Giżycku is situated 1 km northeast of Boyen Fortress.
Giżycko train station
Railway station
Photo: Ludwig Schneider, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Giżycko train station is a railway station, which is situated 2 km east of Boyen Fortress.
Evangelical church in Giżycko
Church
Photo: Lesnydzban, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Evangelical church in Giżycko is situated 1½ km east of Boyen Fortress.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piękna Góra and Giżycko.
Piękna Góra
Village
Photo: Birczanin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Piękna Góra is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Giżycko, within Giżycko County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.
Giżycko
Town
Giżycko is a town in northeastern Poland with 27,107 inhabitants as of January 2025. It is situated between Lake Kisajno and Lake Niegocin in the region of Masuria, within the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.
Wilkasy
Village
Photo: Reptar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wilkasy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Giżycko, within Giżycko County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 4 km south-west of Giżycko and 85 km east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
Boyen Fortress
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Categories: fortress, architectural heritage monument, castle, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
54.03193° or 54° 1′ 55″ northLongitude
21.74896° or 21° 44′ 56″ eastOpen location code
9G632PJX+QHOpenStreetMap ID
way 175612582OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q1408436
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Vietnamese—“Boyen Fortress” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Крэпасць Бойен”
- French: “forteresse Boyen”
- French: “Forteresse Boyen”
- German: “Feste Boyen”
- Greek: “Φρούριο Μπόιεν”
- Polish: “Feste Boyen”
- Polish: “Festung Boyen”
- Polish: “Twierdza Boyen”
- Russian: “Бойен”
- Russian: “Крепость Бойен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Utvrda Boyen”
- Vietnamese: “Pháo đài Boyen”
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Highlights include Warsztat zbrojmistrza and Budynek ćwiczeń.
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