Rudy (Kuźnia Raciborska)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Racibórz | ||
| Gmina : | Kuźnia Raciborska | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 11 ' N , 18 ° 27' E | ||
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| Next international airport : | Katowice | ||
Rudy [ 'rudɨ ] (German: Groß Rauden ) is a town in Upper Silesia . Rudy is located in the municipality of Kuźnia Raciborska (Ratiborhammer) in the powiat Raciborski (Ratibor district) in the Polish Voivodeship of Silesia . The place is also called Rudy Wielkie or Rudy Raciborskie to distinguish it from places of the same name , in German the place is also called Rauden for simplicity .
geography
Geographical location
Rudy is 12 kilometers east of the township of Kuźnia Raciborska, 20 kilometers northeast of the district town Racibórz (Ratibor) and 40 kilometers west of the voivodeship capital Katowice .
Rudy lies on the river Raude .
Neighboring places
Neighboring towns of Rudy are in the northwest Ruda Kozielska (Klein Rauden), in the north Bargłówka (Barglowka), in the northeast Stanica (Stanitz) and Pilchowice (Pilchowitz), in the south the Rybnik district of Stodoły (Stodoll) and in the southwest Jankowice Rudzkie (Jankowitz-Rauden ).
Districts
The hamlets of Biały Dwór, Brantolka, Kolonia Renerowska (Rennersdorf), Paproć, Podbiała, Przerycie and Szybki belong to Rudy.
history
The Cistercian monastery was founded in the 13th century.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Rauden Castle was the seat of the Dukes of Ratibor .
In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 726 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 385 for Poland. In the Groß Rauden manor district, 84 people voted for Germany and 11 for Poland. Groß Rauden remained with the German Empire . After the majority and the district town of the Rybnik district came to Poland in 1922, Gross Rauden became part of the Racibórz district on January 1, 1927 after the remaining district was dissolved. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Ratibor .
After the Red Army had reached the place, the castle (monastery building) and the castle church were badly damaged by being set on fire.
In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Rudy and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1975 the place came to the Katowice Voivodeship and in 1999 to the new Silesian Voivodeship and the re-established Powiat Raciborski .
Attractions
- The building and church of the former Cistercian monastery Groß Rauden and later Rauden Castle. Baroque style building. Built in the 13th century. Surrounded by a park in the style of an English garden.
- Gothic brick chapel
- Nepomuk statue from 1724
- Rectory from the end of the 19th century
- Hospital building from 1858
- Post office building
- Cemetery church from the years 1880 to 1884
- Rauden was an intermediate stop on the narrow-gauge railway from Gliwice to Ratibor . The station building and a museum with narrow-gauge railroads are a reminder of this.
- Forest Park Buk
- Swiss pond
societies
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the place
- Victor II. Amadeus von Ratibor (1847–1923), German politician
- Karl Prinz von Ratibor und Corvey (1860–1931), German lawyer and politician
- Franz-Albrecht Metternich-Sandor (1920–2009), holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
People who have worked in the place
- Victor I. Duke of Ratibor (1818-1893), German nobleman and politician
- Julius Roger (1819–1865), German doctor, naturalist and folklorist
literature
- Georg Hyckel : Large Rauden. In: Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , pp. 155-156.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Internet site of the district ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 2011
- ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
