Rydzewo (Miłki)

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Rydzewo (Poland)
Rydzewo
Rydzewo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Miłki
Geographic location : 53 ° 58 '  N , 21 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '56 "  N , 21 ° 45' 43"  E
Residents : 339 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-513
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Ruda / DK 63 ↔ Jagodne Wielkie - Jagodne Małe
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig
administration
Website : rydzewo.pl



Rydzewo ( German  Rydzewen , 1927 to 1945 Rotwalde ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Miłki (Milken) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Old half-timbered building in Rydzewo
The once Protestant and now Catholic church in Rydzewo

Geographical location

Rydzewo is located on the eastern shore of the Saiten Lake ( Jezioro Boczne in Polish ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eight kilometers south of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

In 1571 the small village called Rotberg was founded, which was called Rydzöwen after 1785 and Rydzewen until 1927 . Its favorable location made it a church village as early as 1579 , and on March 29, 1874 it became an official village, giving its name to an administrative district that existed until 1945 and the district of Lötzen in the Gumbinnen district (1905 to 1945: Allenstein district ) in the Prussian Province of East Prussia belonged.

On December 1, 1910, Rydzewen had 413 inhabitants. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Rydzewen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Rydzewen, 340 people voted to stay with East Prussia, while Poland did not.

On September 19, 1927, Rydzewen was renamed "Rotwalde", and on January 2, 1928 the district was renamed accordingly. The population was 414 in 1933 and 387 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Rydzewo". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and a district of the rural community Miłki (Milken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

District Rydzewen / Rotwalde (1874–1945)

The Rydzewen district, established in 1874, consisted of six villages until 1945. Only the place names changed:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish
name
Great Jagodnen Großkrösten Jagodne Wielkie
Little Jagodnen Small roasting Jagodne Małe
Kleszewen (from 1928 :)
Brassendorf		 Kleszczewo
Paprodtks Goldensee Paprotki
Rydzewen (from 1927 :)
Rotwalde		 Rydzewo
Wierczeyken (from 1928 :)
Gregerswalde		 Wierciejki

church

Church building

The plastered stone building was built between 1579 and 1591 with an east gable and west tower. A wooden ceiling arches over the central nave of the interior, while it is flat above the aisles. Until 1945 a Protestant church, after 1945 the church was changed for catholic liturgical purposes and dedicated to St. Andreas Bobola .

Parish

Evangelical

In 1579 a Protestant parish was founded in Rydzewen , the pastoral position of which was continuously occupied from 1591 to 1945. In 1925 it counted 3,200 parish members and until 1945 belonged to the parish of Lötzen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Escape and expulsion of the local population in connection with the Second World War made it no longer possible to live in the Protestant church. The few Protestant residents today belong to the parish church in Giżycko in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Roman Catholic

Before 1945 lived in Rydzewo resp. Rotwalde only a few Catholic church members. Until 1937 they belonged to the parish church in Rastenburg ( Polish: Kętrzyn ), then to the parish church in Lötzen within the Diocese of Warmia . Today Rydzewo has its own parish with the former Protestant church as a parish church , supplemented by a branch church in Paprotki (Paprodtken , 1938 to 1945 Goldensee) . She is part of the deanery św. Krzystofa in Giżycko within the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

school

In 1590 a school was founded in Rydzewen and a pastor and rector were employed. The school was attended by the children of all parish towns. In 1945 there were two classes.

traffic

Rydzewo is located on a side road that branches off the Polish state road DK 63 (former German Reichsstraße 131 ) at Ruda (Ruhden , 1938 to 1945 iron works) and serves as a riverside road along the Löwentinsee ( Jezioro Niegocin in Polish ), the Saitensee (Jezioro Boczne) and the Jagodner Sees (1938 to 1945 Kröstensee, Polish Jezioro Jagodne) to Jagodne Wielkie (Groß Jagodnen , 1938 to 1945 Großkrösten) and Jagodne Małe (Klein Jagodnen , 1938 to 1945 small roasting) .

Before 1945 the train station in Ruda, eight kilometers away, was the nearest train station. It was on the Lötzen – Arys (–Johannisburg) railway line, which was operated until 1945 .

Web links

Commons : Rydzewo  - 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. 1113
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Rotwalde
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Rydzewen / Rotwalde district
  5. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
  6. ↑ 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. 81
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ a b c Rydzewen (Lötzen district)
  9. ↑ Rydzewo - Rydzewen / Rotwalde
  10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493