Ruciane

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Ruciane (Poland)
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Ruciane
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
District of: Ruciane-Nida
Geographic location : 53 ° 39 '  N , 21 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 39 '5 "  N , 21 ° 33' 47"  E
Height : 110 m npm
Residents :
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 57 : Olsztynek - Szczytno ↔ Pisz - Biała Piska - Szczuczyn
Ext. 610 : Piecki - Gałkowo - Ukta → Ruciane (-Nida)
Rail route : Railway Olsztyn – Ełk
Railway station: Ruciane-Nida
Next international airport : Danzig



Ruciane ( German  Rudczanny , 1938 to 1945 Niedersee ) is a district of Ruciane-Nida in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . Until 1966 it was an independent place in the East Prussian district of Sensburg and in the Polish Powiat Piski (district of Johannisburg ).

Geographical location

Ruciane is located between the Beldahnsee ( Jezioro Bełdany in Polish ) and the Lower Lake ( Jezioro Nidzkie ) and forms the north-eastern part of the city of Ruciane-Nida in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 29 kilometers south-east of the former district town of Sensburg ( Mrągowo in Polish ) or 16 Kilometers west of the current district metropolis Pisz ( German Johannisburg ).  

Steamboat landing in Rudczanny in 1915
Forestry office in Rudczanny or Ruciane
Old building on Bahnhofstrasse in Ruciane

history

Rudczanny emerged as a forest settlement at an unknown time. At the end of the 19th century it was still a forest colony within the rural community of Guszianka (in Polish Guzianka , today a district of Ruciane-Nida), which - renamed "Guschienen" in 1938 - was the seat of the district of the same name . It belonged to the Sensburg district in the Gumbinnen district (from 1905: Allenstein district ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1933 Rudczanny counted 731 inhabitants, while there were already 771 inhabitants in the place called "Lower Lake" since 1938.

Rudczanny grew in importance because of two sawmills , but not least because of the forestry office located in the village . His name also became the title of a forest estate district in the neighboring district of Johannisburg , which in 1910 had 66 inhabitants.

In 1945 Rudczanny resp. Lower Lake in the aftermath of the war with all of southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Ruciane". It was incorporated into the Gromada and Gmina Ukta ( German  Alt Ukta ) in the Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ). In 1954, Ruciane and Nida (Nieden) together formed a Gromada based in Ruciane. On January 1, 1955, Ruciane was reclassified to Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ) and merged with Nida on January 1, 1958. The resulting administrative unit covered an area of ​​20.47 km² with 2,921 inhabitants. Since January 1, 1966, Ruciane has been a district of the newly formed town of Ruciane-Nida in the Powiat Piski, until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

The former Protestant parish house with chapel room is now a Catholic parish church

Evangelical

Rudczanny was included in the parish Alt Ukta ( Polish Ukta ) until 1920 , when it became an independent subsidiary of Alt Ukta, which also retained the parish seat. In 1912/13 a parish hall was built in Rudczanny, which was equipped with a large chapel room for the Sunday services. The parish Alt Ukta / Rudczanny (Niedersee) belonged to the parish of Sensburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Flight and expulsion of the local population put an end to the life of the parish. Protestant residents living here today adhere to the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) with the branch church Dorfkirche Wejsuny (Weissuhnen) within the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Catholic

Before 1945 only a few Catholic church members lived in Rudczanny (Niedersee). They were parish in Sensburg . After 1945, many new Polish citizens settled in Ruciane, almost all of whom were Catholic. They took over the previously evangelical parish house and consecrated it as their parish church, which they dedicated to the "Merciful Mother of God of the Gate of Dawn" ("Kościół Matki Bożej Miłosierdzia Ostrobramskiej"). The parish belongs to the Pisz deanery in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

The former Rudczanny / Niedersee station and today's Ruciane-Nida station

The national road 58 , which is important in terms of traffic and connects the southern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship with the Podlaskie Voivodeship , runs through the Ruciane district . The provincial road 610, which comes from Piecki ( German  Peitschendorf ) and connects the two regions Powiat Mrągowski and Powiat Piski , also ends in Ruciane . A side road leads to Wierzba (Wiersba , 1938 to 1945 Beldahnsee) on the Beldahnsee .

Rudczanny became a train station on the Olsztyn – Ortelsburg – Johannisburg – Lyck railway in 1883 . Between 1898 and 1945 it was also connected to the railway line coming from Sensburg , which ended in Rudczanny or Niedersee. It was no longer used as a result of the war.

Web links

Commons : Ruciane  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Niedersee
  2. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Guszianka / Guschienen
  3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Sensburg (Polish Mragowo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  4. ^ Ministerial Council document Dz. U. 1965 no 54 poz. 334
  5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 140, Fig. 710
  6. ^ Parafia Ruciane-Nida