Ruski Bór

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Ruski Bór
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Ruski Bór (Poland)
Ruski Bór
Ruski Bór
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Szczytno
Geographic location : 53 ° 30 '  N , 21 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 29 '58 "  N , 21 ° 1' 21"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Szczytno / DK 53 - Nowe Gizewo ↔ Zabiele
Rail route : Olsztyn – Ełk and Chorzele – Szczytno
railway line Railway station: Szczytno
Next international airport : Danzig



Ruski Bór ( German  Reusswalde ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Szczytno (rural municipality Ortelsburg ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Ruski Bór is located in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , seven kilometers south of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German  ).

history

Reusswalde was once a forestry office (Oberförsterei) and belonged to the state forest of the same name. On May 7th, 1874 it was mentioned that the Reusswalde manor district with its share in the Ortelsburg, Forst district was incorporated into the rural community of Worfengrund ( Czarkowy Grąd in Polish ).

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Reusswalde belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Reusswalde, 28 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1929, the merger to form the new Reusswalde manor district, part of Ortelsburg district, Forst, with parts of the manor districts:

With all of southern East Prussia , Reusswalde was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war and was given the Polish form of the name "Ruski Bór". Today the place is a forest settlement ( Polish Osada leśna ) within the rural community Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Reusswalde 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 Catholic Church of Ortelsburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Today, Ruski Bór also belongs to the district town on the ecclesiastical side: to the Catholic parish church in Szczytno, now located in the Archdiocese of Warmia , and to the Evangelical Church in Szczytno , now assigned to the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Ruski Bór is located on a side road that leads from the district town of Szczytno via Nowe Gizewo (Gisöwen) to the rural community of Wielbark after Zabiele (Sabialen , 1938 to 1945 Hellengrund) .

There is a connection to rail traffic via the train station in Szczytno on the two railway lines Olsztyn – Ełk ( German  Allenstein – Lyck ) and Chorzele – Szczytno (Chorzele– Ortelsburg ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Reusswalde
  2. ^ A b Rolf Jehke, Corpellen / Korpellen district
  3. ↑ 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. 97
  4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 469