Rydzówka (Węgorzewo)

Rydzówka
	Rydzówka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Węgorzewo
Gmina :	Węgorzewo
Geographic location :	54 ° 14 '  N , 21 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 14 '26 "  N , 21 ° 34' 13"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-420
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NWE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Leśniewo / ext. 650 → Rydzówka
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Rydzówka ( German  Rehsau ) 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

Rydzówka is located on the west bank of the Rehsauer See ( Jezioro Rydzówka in Polish ) in the north of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) is 12 kilometers to the south-east.

history

The place called Resau was founded as early as 1404 . In subsequent years, probably Rösau , Rydzöwko (1782), Reesau called (after 1785), the village in May 1874 in the newly built was District Engelstein ( Polish Węgielsztyn ) incorporated, which until 1945 the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province East Prussia belonged.

In the municipality of Rehsau with the villages of Großes Werder (Ostrów Wielki in Polish), Karlswalde (Karłowo) and Sandhof (Rydzówka Mała) and - from September 30, 1928 - also Rosenstein (Różewiec), 229 inhabitants were registered in 1910. Their number rose to 314 by 1925, was already 353 in 1933 and was 334 in 1939.

In 1945 Rehsau came in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Rydzówka". Today the village is assigned to the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Karłowo (Karlswalde) and represents a place in the network of the urban and rural municipality Węgorzewo in the powiat Węgorzewski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Rehsau was parish in the Evangelical Church of Engelstein in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish Zum Guten Hirten in Angerburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Since 1945, the Catholic population of Rydzówka has belonged to the parish in Srokowo in the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members are assigned to the parish in Węgorzewo , a branch parish of the parish in Giżycko (Lötzen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

The ruins of the burial chamber of the Lefèvre family built in 1836 in the old cemetery in Rydzówka (Rehsau)

The old Rehsauer cemetery ( Cmentarz in Polish ) has been preserved from the time before 1945, although it is no longer maintained, but some grave sites can still be found there.

Personalities

• Albert Borowski (born November 27, 1876 in Rehsau, † January 1945 in Rudau), Prussian politician, member of the state parliament (SPD)

traffic

Rydzówka is conveniently located three kilometers north of the Polish voivodship road DW 650 , and can be reached from there via the junction in Leśniewo (Fürstenau) . There is no train connection.

Web links

Commons : Rydzówka (powiat węgorzewski)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1113
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Rehsau
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Engelstein District
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
5. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476