Ogrodzieniec, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Ogrodzieniec
Village
Neudeck manor house in 1928
Ogrodzieniec
Coordinates: 53°36′N 19°19′E / 53.600°N 19.317°E / 53.600; 19.317
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Warmian-Masurian
County	Iława
Gmina	Kisielice

Ogrodzieniec [ɔɡrɔˈd͡ʑeɲet͡s] (German: Neudeck) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kisielice, within Iława County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Previously called Neudeck, it was renowned as the country residence of German President Paul von Hindenburg, who died there in 1934.

It lies in the southwest of the voivodeship, approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) east of Kisielice, 17 km (11 mi) west of Iława, and 81 km (50 mi) west of the regional capital Olsztyn.

The German name of the village, Neudeck, is probably derived from Old Prussian Najdekai. The area settled by Pomesanian tribes was conquered by the Teutonic Knights from 1234 onwards. Neudeck was founded about 1320 by a Teutonic lokator; it was devastated in the Polish–Teutonic Hunger War of 1414, and again during the Thirteen Years' War (1454–66) between the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon and the Teutonic Order. It remained with the Order's State upon the Second Peace of Thorn (1466). Part of the Duchy of Prussia from 1525, a 1543 deed mentions only two extant farmsteads.

Neudeck manor became the ancestral country estate of the Hindenburg noble family, originally descending from Farther Pomerania, when it was purchased by the Prussian colonel Otto Friedrich von Hindenburg in 1755. After his death, it was inherited by his nephew Otto Gottfried von Beneckendorff (1747–1827), Lord of Keimkallen near Heiligenbeil, who from 1789 continued the name von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg with the consent from King Frederick William II of Prussia. The village was incorporated into the Province of West Prussia from 1773 until 1922 when, under the border readjustment following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles, the German remnants of West Prussia were absorbed by East Prussia.