Rūjiena

Rūjiena ( German : Rujen)
Basic data
State :	Latvia
Landscape:	Livonia ( Latvian : Vidzeme )
Administrative district :	Rūjienas novads
Coordinates :	57 ° 54 '  N , 25 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 53 '50 "  N , 25 ° 19' 34"  E
Residents :	3,088 (Jan 1, 2016)
Area :	7.8 km²
Population density :	396 inhabitants per km²
Height :
City law:	since 1920
Website:	www.rujiena.lv
Post Code:
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Rūjiena (German: Rujen , Estonian Ruhja ) is a city in northern Latvia on the small river Rūja . In 2016 it had 3,088 inhabitants. The city likes to call itself the most Latvian of all Latvian cities (5% other nationalities).

history

Rūjiena 1790 (by Johann Christoph Brotze )

The history of Rūjiena goes back to the 14th century . At that time, the village came into being near an Ordensburg Rujen , which was probably built between 1256 and 1261 . The castle was destroyed by Russian troops during the Livonian War in 1560 . Rūjiena was then rebuilt. The pastor Gustav Bergmann (1749–1814, great-grandfather of the surgeon Ernst von Bergmann ) set up an in-house printer near the church in 1782. With this he printed the first collection of Latvian folk songs in 1807 .

In 1919 the Latvian North Corps under Colonel Jorģis Zemitāns was set up in Rūjiena with the help of Estonia . From 1937 to 1944 and from 1977 to 1996 there was a railway line to Riga, which ended in the city.

Economy and Infrastructure

• There is a middle school as well as a school each for art, sports and music.
• The local dairy has been producing a well-known ice cream since 1988 with 20 different flavors.

Born in Rūjiena

• Adam Jende (Latvian Ādams Jende; 1861–1918), pastor and martyr
• Arturs Alberings (1877–1934), politician
• Evgenija Nikolajewna Jegorowa (actually Marta-Ella Lepin; 1892–1938), politician
• Gustavs Klucis (1895–1938), photographer and avant-garde artist
• Edvīns bidding tags (1908–1983), wrestler

Rūjienas novads

Since 2009 the city has formed an administrative community with 4 surrounding communities. In 2010, 6144 residents were registered.

literature

• Hans Feldmann , Heinz von zur Mühlen (ed.): Baltic historical local dictionary, part 2: Latvia (southern Livonia and Courland). Böhlau, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-412-06889-6 , pp. 527-528.
• Astrīda Iltnere (ed.): Latvijas Pagasti, Enciklopēdija. Preses Nams, Riga 2002, ISBN 9984-00-436-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ «Latvijas iedzīvotāju skaits pašvaldībās pagastu dalījumā"
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hans Feldmann, Heinz von zur Mühlen (ed.): Baltic historical local lexicon, part 2: Latvia (southern Livland and Courland). Böhlau, Cologne 1990, p. 527.
3. ↑ Hans Feldmann, Heinz von zur Mühlen (ed.): Baltic historical local dictionary, part 2: Latvia (southern Livland and Courland). Böhlau, Cologne 1990, p. 528.