Ruska Wieś (Ełk)

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Ruska Wieś
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Ruska Wieś (Poland)
Ruska Wieś
Ruska Wieś
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 48 '  N , 22 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '32 "  N , 22 ° 12' 16"  E
Residents : 245 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-321
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 16 : Grudziądz - Olsztyn - Mrągowo - OrzyszTalusy - Ełk - Augustów - Ogrodniki (- Lithuania )
Bajtkowo / ext. 667 - Mostołty → Ruska Wieś
Mołdzie → Ruska Wieś
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Ruska Wieś ( German  Reuschendorf ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Old farm in Ruska Wieś (Reuschendorf)

Geographical location

Ruska Wieś is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers southwest of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The Reuschendorf estate was founded in 1507. 1874 was in the newly built office district Klaussen ( Polish Klusy ) incorporated, which existed until 1945 and the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. The Reuschendorf estate had 117 inhabitants in 1910.

The Reuschendorf estate was 600 hectares in size in the 1920s and included a sawmill and a distillery . The owners were the Juedtz family . Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Reuschendorf belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Reuschendorf 100 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

On September 30, 1928, the Reuschendorf estate and the neighboring Pistken estate (1938 to 1945 Kröstenwerder , Pistki in Polish ) merged to form the new rural community of Reuschendorf. The number of inhabitants was 205 in 1933. The manor from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The 19th century was expanded and expanded until 1935. In 1939 the village had a total of 210 inhabitants.

As a result of the war, Reuschendorf came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Ruska Wieś". The manor house is now in good condition and the property of the State Agency for Agricultural Property ( Polish Agencji Własności Rolnej Skarbu Państwa - AWRSP).

Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place within the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Reuschendorf was parish in the Protestant Church Klaussen ( Klusy in Polish ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Ruska Wieś belongs to the Catholic parish church of Klusy in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Ełk , a subsidiary of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Ruska Wieś is located on the major Polish east-west traffic axis of state road 16 (formerly German state road 127 ), which connects the Kuyavian-Pomeranian , Warmian-Masurian and Podlachian voivodeships . In addition, a side road from the Provincial Road 667 ends in Ruska Wieś, as does an overland road from the northeast from Mołdzie (Moldavia , 1938 to 1945 Mulden) .

Until 2009/10 Mołdzie was the next train station on the Czerwonka – Ełk railway line ( German  Rothfließ – Lyck ), which is no longer operated regularly.

Web links

Commons : Ruska Wieś (Gmina Ełk)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1101
  3. Dietrich Lange, Geographisches Ortregister Ostpreußen (2005): Reuschendorf
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Klaussen district
  5. ^ Uli Schneider, directory of local authorities, district of Lyck
  6. a b c Ruska Wieś - Reuschendorf, Batjkowo - Baitkowen / Baitenberg
  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. 86
  8. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. Gmina Ełk
  10. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493
  11. Reuschendorf (district of Lyck)