Hotel KrystJanOlecko, ul. 11 Listopada 9

We would like you to visit Olecko and stay in our hotel KrystJan.

If you like masurian scenery, enjoy resting in peacefull athmosphere, hotel KrystJan is an ideal place for you. The hotel has 57 bedrooms equipped with Tv, bathroom, internet connection. We also have one high class apartment and a conference room. All have been tastefully designed offering the best facilities.

You are cordially invited!

Olecko (former German: Marggrabowa since 1560, also Oletzko, Treuburg since 1928) is a town in Masuria, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of Poland, near Ełk and Suwałki. It is situated at the mouth of the Lega river into the Great Olecko Lake (Jezioro Oleckie Wielkie) on its south-western shore. Olecko is the seat of Olecko County.

Marggrabowa was founded as a town by Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Duke of the Duchy of Prussia, on January 1, 1560. The town's name is derived from the German word Markgraf, the duke's title as the margraviate of Brandenburg's prince. The city coats of arms still reflect the Brandenburg red eagle and the Hohenzollern black and white going back to Albert of Brandenburg Prussia.

At the same place there has been since 1544 a hunting lodge called Oletzko. At a peninsula towards the lake, across the Lega river, in 1619 the Castle of Oletzko (Schloss Oletzko) was established as a regional administrative seat.

Between 1818 and 1945, Marggrabowa was the seat of Oletzko County (Kreis Oletzko, later named Kreis Treuburg) in the province of East Prussia in the Kingdom of Prussia.