Nakomiady


Nakomiady is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kętrzyn, within Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Kętrzyn and east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
Before 1945 the area was part of Germany.
The village has a population of 670.

History

A castle was built by the Teutonic Knight Konrad von Kyburg between 1392 and 1396, this castle was however later destroyed and only the cellar-vault and foundation walls remained. In 1653 Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg awarded the property of Eichmedien and the surrounding villages to Johann von Hoverbeck as a gratification for his role as Prussian ambassador to Warsaw. A palace was built on the remnants of the order's castle. In 1789 Friedrich von Redecker bought the village and it remained within the Redecker family until 1930.