# Kolniszki

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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Kolniszki
| settlement_type = Village
| image_skyline = 
| image_caption = 
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [Voivodeship](/source/Voivodeships_of_Poland)
| subdivision_name1 = [Warmian-Masurian](/source/Warmian-Masurian_Voivodeship)
| subdivision_type2 = [County](/source/Powiat)
| subdivision_name2 = [Gołdap](/source/Go%C5%82dap_County)
| subdivision_type3 = [Gmina](/source/Gmina)
| subdivision_name3 = [Gołdap](/source/Gmina_Go%C5%82dap)
| pushpin_map = Poland
| coordinates = {{coord|54|16|N|22|23|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| established_title = Founded
| established_date = 1564
| founder = Jan Bender
| elevation_m = 
| population_total = 
| timezone = [CET](/source/Central_European_Time)
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [CEST](/source/Central_European_Summer_Time)
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| registration_plate = NGO
}}
'''Kolniszki''' {{IPAc-pl|k|o|l|'|n|i|sz|k|i}} is a [village](/source/village) in the administrative district of [Gmina Gołdap](/source/Gmina_Go%C5%82dap), within [Gołdap County](/source/Go%C5%82dap_County), [Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship](/source/Warmian-Masurian_Voivodeship), in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with the [Kaliningrad Oblast](/source/Kaliningrad_Oblast) of [Russia](/source/Russia).{{TERYT}}

Kolniszki was founded in 1564 by Jan Bender from [Skocze](/source/Skocze), who bought land to establish the village.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kętrzyński|first=Wojciech|author-link=Wojciech Kętrzyński|year=1882|title=O ludności polskiej w Prusiech niegdyś krzyżackich|language=pl|location=Lwów|publisher=[Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich](/source/Ossolineum)|page=536}}</ref><ref name=sgk>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich|volume=IV|year=1883|language=pl|location=Warsaw|page=265}}</ref>

==Notable residents==
*[Herbert Ehrenberg](/source/Herbert_Ehrenberg) (1926–2018), German politician

==References==
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{{Gmina Gołdap}}

Category:Villages in Gołdap County
Category:1564 establishments in Poland
Category:Populated places established in 1564

{{Gołdap-geo-stub}}

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