Ruszów (Węgliniec)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lower Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Zgorzelec | ||
| Gmina : | Węgliniec | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 24 ' N , 15 ° 11' E | ||
| Residents : | 1791 (2012) | ||
| Postal code : | 59-950 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 75 | ||
| License plate : | DZG | ||
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| Website : | www.ruszow.pl | ||
Ruszów (German Rauscha ) is a district of the urban and rural municipality Węgliniec (Kohlfurt) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . The place belongs to the Euroregion Neisse and is located in the Polish part of Upper Lusatia .
history
Ruszów, formerly Rauscha, came as part of Upper Lusatia as part of the Peace of Prague in 1635 from the Kingdom of Bohemia to the Electorate of Saxony . As a result of the Congress of Vienna , it was in the part of Upper Lusatia that had to be ceded to Prussia in 1815. Until 1945, the municipality of Rauscha was in the district of Görlitz ( administrative district Liegnitz ) in the province of Silesia or Lower Silesia . During the Second World War , a satellite camp of the Groß-Rosen concentration camp was located here . After the invasion of the Red Army in 1945, the German residents were expelled , the place was settled with Poles and renamed Ruszów. It was only later incorporated into Węgliniec .
Personalities
- Georg Geist (1895–1974), German politician (SPD), 1946–1966 district administrator in the Esslingen district
- Walter Hübner (1896–1965), 1933–1945 District Administrator in the Reichenbach district (Eulengebirge)
- Herbert Schäfer (* 1932), German automobile designer, 1972–1993 chief designer at VW
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Verlag CH Beck, Munich (9 volumes; 2005–2009).
- ↑ Isabell Sprenger: Groß-Rosen . A concentration camp in Silesia. Böhlau Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-412-11396-4 .
literature
- Fritz R. Baran: City Atlas Silesia. Maps and plans from Auras to Zülz . Augsburg 2009.
