Rudy, Silesian Voivodeship
Rudy [' rudɨ ] ( German: Big Rudy ) is a town in Upper Silesia. Rudy is in the municipality Kuźnia Raciborska ( Ratiborhammer ) in Raciborski powiat ( county Ratibor ) in the Polish province of Silesia. The place is called to distinguish it from the same places Rudy Rudy Wielkie or Raciborskie, in German the place is also called simplified Rauden.
- 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 5.2 Persons who have worked in the place
- 6.1 External links
- 6.2 footnotes
Geography
Geographical Location
Rudy is located 12 kilometers east of the parish seat Kuźnia Raciborska, 20 kilometers northeast of the county town of Racibórz ( Ratibor ) and 40 kilometers west of the voivodship of Katowice.
Neighboring towns
Neighboring towns of Rudy are in the northwest Ruda Kozielska (small Rauden ), in the north Bargłówka ( Barglowka ), in the northeast Stanica ( Stanitz ) and Pilchowice ( Pilchowitz ), in the south of Rybnik district Stodoły ( Stodoll ) and in the southwest Jankowice Rudzkie ( Janko Joke Rauden ).
Districts
At Rudy include the hamlet Bialy Dwór, Brantolka, Kolonia Renerowska ( Rennersdorf ) Paproć, Podbiała, Przerycie and Szybki.
History
In the 13th century the Cistercian monastery was founded.
In the 19th and 20th century castle was Rauden seat of the Dukes of Ratibor.
In the plebiscite in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921 726 voters voted to remain in Germany and 385 for Poland. In Gutsbezirk United Rauden 84 people voted for Germany and 11 for Poland. Great Rauden remained with the German Reich. After the majority as well as the county seat of the county in 1922 came to Rybnik Poland, Great Rudy was after the dissolution of the residual circle to January 1, 1927 part of the district Ratibor. By 1945, the place was in the district Ratibor.
After the Red Army reached the place, the castle ( monastery ) and the castle church was badly damaged by lighting.
In 1945 the previously German place under Polish administration and renamed Rudy and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950, the city came to Opole Voivodeship. In 1975, the place to Katowice Voivodeship and Silesian Voivodeship new 1999 and re-established powiat Raciborski.
Attractions and buildings
- The buildings and church of the former Cistercian monastery and later United Rudy Rudy castle. Building in baroque style. Built in the 13th century. Surrounded by a park in the style of an English garden.
- Gothic brick chapel
- Nepomuk statue from 1724
- The parsonage of the end of the 19th century
- The building of the hospital from 1858
- The Post Office
- Cemetery church from the years 1880 to 1884
- Rudy was an intermediate stop on the narrow- gauge railway from Gleiwitz to Ratibor. It still remember the station building and a museum narrow gauge railways.
- Forest Park Buk
- The Swiss Pond
Clubs
- German Friendship Circle
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Charles Prince of Ratibor and Corvey (1860-1931), German jurist and politician
- Franz -Albrecht Metternich - Sandor (1920-2009), winner of the Federal Cross of Merit
People who worked in the city
- Victor I. Duke of Ratibor (1818-1893), German nobleman and politician
- Julius Roger (1819-1865), German physician, naturalist and folklorist