Gryfino, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

🇵🇱 Gryfino is a town in Pomerania, north-western Poland. It is also the capital of Gryfino County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Szczecin Voivodeship (1975–1998).

The town is located on the Odra Wschodnia, the eastern branch of the Oder river, about 20 km (12 miles) south of Szczecin in Poland. The western branch of the Oder, 2 km (1 mi) away from the town centre, marks the border with Germany. There is a direct road link between Gryfino and the German town of Mescherin across the river.

The Crooked Forest is located in the village of Nowe Czarnowo, just outside Gryfino.

History The settlement, then German, was originally called Greifenhagen. It was built in 1230, and was raised to the rank of a town and fortified about 1250. In the Thirty Years' War it was taken both by the Holy Roman Empire and the Swedish Empire, and in 1675 it was captured by the Brandenburgers, into whose possession it came finally in 1679.

In 1945, the town and its region became Polish and was renamed Gryfino from the original Greifenhagen by replacing the German suffix -hagen by the Polish suffix -ino.

Towns near Gryfino • Szczecin (Poland) • Stargard (Poland) • Cedynia (Poland) • Chojna (Poland) • Mieszkowice (Poland) • Moryń (Poland) • Trzcińsko-Zdrój (Poland) • Myślibórz (Poland) • Pyrzyce (Poland) • Schwedt (Germany) • Vierraden (Germany) • Gartz (Germany) • Penkun (Germany).