Ruś (Stawiguda)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Olsztyński | ||
| Gmina : | Stawiguda | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 42 ′ N , 20 ° 30 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 456 (2012) | ||
| Postal code : | 11-687 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | ||
| License plate : | NOL | ||
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| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Ruś (German Reußen ) is a village and Sołectwo in the rural municipality of Stawiguda . It is located in the Olsztyński powiat in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in north-eastern Poland .
geography
Geographical location
Ruś is located in the west of the Masurian Lake District , which belongs to the Baltic ridge . Numerous lakes, rivers, as well as coniferous and mixed forests are characteristic of the area.
The distance to Barczewo is 27, to Olsztyn center eleven, to Olsztynek 24 and to Stawiguda twelve kilometers.
geology
The landscape has been shaped by the ice sheet and is a postglacial , hilly, wooded ground moraine with many channels , inland lakes and rivers.
history
The pagan Prussians originally lived here . Since 1243 the Diocese of Ermland was part of the Teutonic Order . The village was founded on January 26, 1374.
After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, Warmia was subordinated to the Crown of Poland as an autonomous duchy of Warmia . With the first partition of Poland in 1772, Warmia became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Province of East Prussia .
Reussen belonged to the Allenstein district from 1818 to 1945 . In May 1874 the administrative district of Kellaren was formed here with the rural community of Reussen. In the referendum on July 11, 1920, 387 votes were cast for East Prussia and 37 for Poland .
After January 20, 1945, Reussen was captured by the Red Army . After the end of the war the village became part of the People's Republic of Poland and is called Ruś .
Population development
- 1817: 94
- 1846: 230
- 1871: 562
- 1895: 690
- 1925: 768
- 1939: 870
- 2011: 440
- 2012: 456
Literary setting
Petra Reski , whose father was born in Reussia, traveled to Ruś several times and described it in the book A Country So Far - East Prussian Memories .
Web links
- District community Allenstein e. V.
- Parish of Groß BANY
- Reußen (Allenstein district) at GenWiki
- Ruś, Reuss at GenWiki
- Reussen - location information according to D. Lange
Footnotes
- ↑ Ruś – Reußen from J. Chłosta accessed in August 2014
- ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Kellaren accessed in August 2014
- ↑ Oficjalna strona internetowa Gminy Stawiguda (Polish)
- ↑ Vera-Maria Stoll: A country so far. Visitator Ermland, Münster, November 9, 2009, accessed on August 25, 2014 .
- ↑ Petra Reski: How I found my home. Retrieved August 25, 2014 .