Ruska Wieś (Węgorzewo)

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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 : Węgorzewo
Gmina : Węgorzewo
Geographic location : 54 ° 12 '  N , 21 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '25 "  N , 21 ° 42' 31"  E
Residents : 34 (2006)
Postal code : 11-600
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NWE
Economy and Transport
Street : Trygort / ext. 650 - Zwierzyniecki Róg ↔ Węgorzewo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Ruska Wieś ( German  Reussen ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural community Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Geographical location

Ruska Wieś is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , just one and a half kilometers southwest of the district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) .

history

The place called Reussendorf before 1785 , Reussin after 1898 and only then Reussen was founded in 1402. The townscape was shaped by a large estate. In 1874 which was Gutsbezirk Reussen in the newly built office district Thiergarten ( Polish Trygort ) incorporated, which the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910, the Reussen manor had a total of 37 inhabitants. On September 30, 1928, the village lost its independence and came to the municipality of Angerburg (Polish Węgorzewo).

In 1945 Reussen was transferred to Poland together with the whole of southern East Prussia as a result of the war and since then has borne the Polish form of name "Ruska Wieś". Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo) and a place in the network of the urban and rural municipality Węgorzewo in the powiat Węgorzewski , before 1998 to the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

The majority Protestant population of Reussen until 1945 was parish in the parish of the parish church of Angerburg in the parish of Angerburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . After 1945 only a few Protestant residents still belong to the parish of Węgorzewo , although this is now a subsidiary of the parish in Giżycko (Lötzen) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

The only small number of Catholic church members was incorporated into the parish of the Angerburg Church of the Good Shepherd in the deanery Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg , Polish Pisz) in the then diocese of Warmia . Today the Catholics are in the majority and are included in the parish of the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Węgorzewo in the Deanery Węgorzewo in the current Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Ruska Wieś is located on the outskirts of Węgorzewo and can be reached via a side road that connects the district town along the banks of the Wall Lake ( Jezioro Mamry in Polish ) via Zwierzyniecki Róg (Thiergartenspitze) with Trygort (Thiergarten) . A railway connection has not existed since the railway lines crossing Węgorzewo were taken out of service.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1101
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Reussen
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Thiergarten district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
  5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476