Warmia-Masuria
Kętrzyn County
Kętrzyn

Wolf’s Lair

The Wolf's Lair was Adolf Hitler's first Eastern Front military headquarters in World War II. Currently, it is a museum open to the public, as well as a hotel, conference room and restaurant.
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  • Opening hours: April—September 8:00 AM—8:00 PM and October—March 8:00 AM—4:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: one of Nazi Germany’s military headquarters during WW2, now in Gierłoż, Kętrzyn, Poland
  • Also known as: “Führerhauptquartier ‘Wolfsschanze’” and “kwatera główna Adolfa Hitlera”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mój.

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is situated 2½ km northwest of Wolf’s Lair.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gierłoż and Parcz.

Village
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is a in the administrative district of , within , , in north-eastern . It is located in the historic region of Masuria.

Village
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is a in the administrative district of , within , Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 10 km east of and 75 km north-east of the regional capital .

Village
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is a in the administrative district of , within , Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 9 km east of and 75 km north-east of the regional capital .

Wolf’s Lair

Latitude
54.08087° or 54° 4′ 51″ north
Longitude
21.49833° or 21° 29′ 54″ east
Operator
Lasy Państwowe
Open location code
9G633FJX+88
Open­Street­Map ID
way 23554892
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q157153
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Uzbek—“Wolf’s Lair” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Strofka e Ujkut”
  • Albanian: “Strofulla e Ujkut”
  • Arabic: “Rastenburg”
  • Arabic: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Arabic: “وكر الذئب”
  • Armenian: “Գայլի որջ”
  • Asturian: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Bashkir: “Бүре Ояһы”
  • Basque: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Belarusian: “Ваўчынае логава”
  • Belarusian: “Вольфсшанцэ”
  • Belarusian: “Воўчае логвішча”
  • Belarusian: “Воўчы бярлог”
  • Bulgarian: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Bulgarian: “Волфсшанце”
  • Bulgarian: “Вълчата бърлога”
  • Bulgarian: “Вълчото леговище”
  • Catalan: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Chinese: “狼穴”
  • Croatian: “Vučja jazbina”
  • Czech: “Vlčí doupě”
  • Czech: “Vlčí valy”
  • Czech: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Danish: “Ulveborgen”
  • Danish: “Ulveskansen”
  • Danish: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Dutch: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وكر الديب”
  • Esperanto: “Lupa Kuŝejo”
  • Esperanto: “Lupa remparo”
  • Estonian: “hundikoobas”
  • Finnish: “Wolfschanze”
  • Finnish: “Wolfsschanze”
  • French: “La tanière du loup”
  • French: “Redoute du Loup”
  • French: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Galician: “Wolfsschanze”
  • German: “Führerhauptquartier Wolfsschanze”
  • German: “Wolfschanze”
  • German: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Greek: “Λημέρι του λύκου”
  • Greek: “Λημέρι του Λύκου”
  • Hebrew: “מאורת הזאב”
  • Hebrew: “מאורת הזאבים”
  • Hungarian: “Farkasodú”
  • Hungarian: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Indonesian: “Wolf’s Lair”
  • Italian: “Tana del lupo”
  • Italian: “Tana del Lupo”
  • Italian: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Japanese: “ヴォルフスシャンツェ”
  • Japanese: “狼の巣”
  • Japanese: “狼の砦”
  • Korean: “늑대소굴”
  • Latvian: “Vilku midzenis”
  • Lithuanian: “Vilko guolis”
  • Lithuanian: “Vilko irštva”
  • Lithuanian: “Vilko šančius”
  • Malay: “Wolf’s Lair”
  • Malay: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wolfschanze”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Norwegian: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Persian: “آشیانه گرگ”
  • Persian: “ولفس‌شانتسه”
  • Polish: “Wilczy Szaniec”
  • Polish: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Portuguese: “Toca do lobo”
  • Portuguese: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Romanian: “Adăpostul lupului”
  • Romanian: “Bârlogul Lupului”
  • Russian: “Волчье логово”
  • Russian: “Вольфшанце”
  • Slovak: “Vlčí brloh”
  • Slovak: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Slovenian: “Volčje gnezdo”
  • Slovenian: “Volčji brlog”
  • Slovenian: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Spanish: “Führrhaptquartier Wolfschanze”
  • Spanish: “Guarida del Lobo”
  • Spanish: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Swedish: “Varglyan”
  • Swedish: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Thai: “รังหมาป่า”
  • Turkish: “Wolfsschanze”
  • Ukrainian: “Вовче лігво”
  • Ukrainian: “Вольфсшанце”
  • Ukrainian: “Вольфшанце”
  • Uzbek: “Wolfsschanze (Boʻri uyasi)”
  • Uzbek: “Wolfsschanze”

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