Villa Two Lakes is an excellent base for enthusiasts of sightseeing and photography. The surrounding areas delight not only with wild Masurian nature, but also hide many interesting places with rich history, architecture, and attractions for whole families. We invite you to explore the proposed sightseeing directions.
Direction Mikołajki
Gołębiewski Hotel / Gołębiewski Aqua Park Hotel – and several hundred accommodation places in guesthouses and private lodgings. Monuments: Łukajno Lake Nature Reserve, Museum of Polish Reformation, classic Evangelical-Augsburg church from 1842, neo-Gothic church from 1910.
Palace in Rudziszki – there is a palace and park complex with a 17th-century palace, rebuilt in the 19th century, and an English-style park. After renovation, the palace houses a Branch of the Psychiatric Hospital. The branch in Rudziszki has 52 beds and is intended for patients requiring long-term treatment. In Rudziszki, a planned border crossing with the Kaliningrad Oblast to Kryłów exists.
Bird Reserve on Lake Oświn – Lake Oświn is one of the most important waterfowl and marsh bird refuges in the northern part of Warmia and Masuria, known and protected even before the war, although in recent years, due to a significant reduction of the water surface and increasing predator pressure, some bird species have stopped nesting here, and the breeding populations of others have significantly decreased. It is the most important breeding refuge of the green sandpiper in the country.
Manor in Dąbrówka Mała – built between 1914 and 1917 in MAMERKI. In Ruciane, the Luftwaffe command settled, and Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler chose the town of POZEZDRZE as his headquarters.
World War II bunkers – in the forest several kilometers north of RADZIEJ, there are well-preserved staff shelters, air-raid shelters, protection bunkers, power plant, platform and railway siding, and a concrete access road, built between 1940-1942. The field headquarters codenamed “WENDULA” belonged here to the minister, head of the Third Reich’s Chancellery – SS-Obergruppenführer Hans Lammers. Co-author of legal acts harming Jews and Poles; valued by Hitler for his ability to give inhumane decisions the form of legal regulations.
Bunkers in Okowiźno – in the nearby forest (approx. 2 km northwest) are bunkers of the former SS and police headquarters of Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler (codenamed “Hochwald”), built between 1940-1941, used during the aggression against the USSR. The headquarters area was surrounded by a minefield fenced with mesh and barbed wire. Stationed here was a police battalion, which was part of units designated to defend Himmler’s headquarters and the OKW in Gierłoż as well as observing the Kętrzyn – Węgorzewo – Giżycko triangle. On September 16, 1944, Himmler met here with General ANDREI VLASOV, commander of the Russian Liberation Army.
