Rudka (Szczytno)

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Rudka (Poland)
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Rudka
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Szczytno
Geographic location : 53 ° 32 '  N , 21 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '46 "  N , 21 ° 2' 30"  E
Residents : 879 (2011)
Postal code : 12-100
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Szczytno / DK 53 - Nowe Gizewo ↔ Prusowy Borek
Czarkowy Grąd → Rudka
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Rudka ( German  Hamerudau ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Szczytno (rural municipality Ortelsburg ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Rudka is located on the west bank of the Waldpusch ( Polish Wałpusza ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , five kilometers southeast of the district town of Szczytno ( German  Ortelsburg ).

history

The front of 1,785 Rudau after 1785 Hammerudau and after 1820 Hammerrudau village called to have been founded before the 1446th In 1874 it was incorporated into the district of Beutnerdorf ( Polish : Bartna Strona , no longer existing) and after its dissolution in 1913 , it was reclassified to the district of Lehmanen (Polish : Lemany ) - both located in the East Prussian district of Ortelsburg .

In 1910, 318 inhabitants were registered in Hamerudau. Their number rose to 342 by 1933 and was also 342 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Hamerudau belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Hamerudau, 213 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

When the whole of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Hamerudau was also affected. It received the Polish name form "Rudka" and is today - with the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) - a place in the network of the rural community Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship Masuria belonging. In 2011 Rudka had 879 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945, Hamerudau was parish in the Protestant Church of Ortelsburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Ortelsburg in the district of Beutnerdorf ( Bartna Strona in Polish , no longer existing), at that time in the Diocese of Warmia .

The church is still connected to the district town today: to the Evangelical Church of Szczytno , now located in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , and to the Catholic parish "Assumption of Mary" in Szczytno, now part of the Archdiocese of Warmia .

school

Until 1912 Hamerudau belonged to the comprehensive school association Worfengrund (in Polish: Czarkowy Grąd ). In 1913 the village received a new school building in which two-class classes were taught.

traffic

Rudka is located on a side road that leads from the Polish state road 53 (former German Reichsstraße 134 ) near Szczytno via Nowe Gizewo ((New) Gisöwen) to Prusowy Borek (Prussowborrek) . In addition, the neighboring town of Czarkowy Grąd is directly connected to Rudka via a side road. There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Rudka w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1097
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Hamerudau
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, district of Beutnerdorf / Lehmanen
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 95
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496