Town hall in Nowa Ruda

Nowa Ruda (pronounced ['nɔva 'ruda]; German: Neurode) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, on the Włodzica river and near the town of Kłodzko. As of January 1, 2005 it had 24,697 inhabitants. The town is located in the central Sudetes in the Powiat of Kłodzko of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. Between 1975 and 1999 it formed a part of the Wałbrzych Voivodeship. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1932 × 2576 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1932 × 2576 pixel, file size: 1. ... Lower Silesian Voivodeship. ... Motto: none Voivodship Lower Silesian Municipal government Rada Miejska w KÅ‚odzku Mayor Roman Lipski Area 25 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 30. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A view from Zygmuntówka refuge, Góry Sowie Sněžka-Åšnieżka Destroyed forest on the top of Wielka Sowa The Sudetes (IPA: ), also called Sudeten (in German; pronounced: ) or Sudety (pronounced in Czech, in Polish), are a mountain range in Central Europe. ... KÅ‚odzko County (in Polish powiat kÅ‚odzki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the Lower Silesian Voivodship in Poland, created on 1st January 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998. ... Lower Silesian Voivodeship. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... Image:Wabrzych Voivodship 1975. ...

History

Situated in the rich Kłodzko Valley, the area of the modern town has been inhabitated since the early middle ages by German settlers. Officially, the settlement was granted with city charter in 1363 and received the name of Newenrode. The city was rechartered under a local variant of the Magdeburg Law in 1434 and then again in 1596. Since then it has shared the fate of the nearby city of Kłodzko. The town was the capitol of the Landkreis Neurode until 1932 when it came back to the Landkreis Glatz. KÅ‚odzko Valley (Polish: , German: ) a valley in the south of Poland in Eastern Sudetes surrounded by StoÅ‚owe Mountains, Bardzkie Mountains and Bystrzyckie Mountains. ... A city charter or town charter is a legal document establishing a municipality. ... Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s - 1360s - 1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s Years: 1358 1359 1360 1361 1362 - 1363 - 1364 1365 1366 1367 1368 See also: 1363 state leaders Events Magnus II, King of Sweden, is deposed by Albert of Mecklenburg. ... The Magdeburg Rights (or Magdeburg law) were the laws of the Imperial Free City of Magdeburg during many centuries of the Holy Roman Empire, and possibly the most important set of Germanic medieval city laws. ... Events May 30, Battle of Lipany in the Hussite Wars Jan van Eyck paints the wedding of Giovanni Arnoflini The Honorable Passing of Arms at the bridge of Obrigo The Portuguese reach Cape Bojador in Western Sahara. ... Events February 5 - 26 catholics crucified in Nagasaki, Japan. ... Motto: none Voivodship Lower Silesian Municipal government Rada Miejska w KÅ‚odzku Mayor Roman Lipski Area 25 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 30. ...

The result of the politics of the Allies has been a huge expulsion of population in whole Eastern Europe. Many people were expelled from Galicia and came to Silesia. Since the expulsion of Germans after World War II the majority of inhabitants of Nowa Ruda are Polish. Since the Eastern Politics of German Chancellor Willy Brandt the former German inhabitants were allowed to travel to their hometowns and tried to arrange with the current population. Look up ally in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Expulsion is one of words used to describe expulsions after World War II, indicating condemnation of the events. ... Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium orange),members of the Warsaw pact (light orange), and other former Communist regimes not aligned with Moscow (lightest orange). ... Galicia (Ukrainian: , Polish: , Russian: , German: , Hungarian: , Czech: , Yiddish: , Turkish: , Romanian: ) is a historical region in East Central Europe, currently divided between Poland and Ukraine. ... Silesia (Czech: ; German: ; Latin: ; Polish: ; Silesian: Ślónsk) is a historical region in central Europe. ... Germans expelled from the Sudetenland // The expulsion of Germans after World War II refers to the forced migration of people considered Germans (Reichsdeutsche and some Volksdeutsche) from various European states and territories during 1945 and in the first three years after World War II 1946-48. ... Ostpolitik or Eastern Politics describes the realisation of the Change through Rapprochement principle, verbalised by Egon Bahr in 1963, by the effort of Willy Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany, to normalize relations with Eastern European nations including East Germany. ... For other uses, see Chancellor (disambiguation). ... Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (December 18, 1913 - October 8, 1992), was a German politician, Chancellor of West Germany 1969 – 1974, and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1964 – 1987. ... Hometown is the name of several places in the United States: Hometown, Illinois Hometown, Pennsylvania Hometown, West Virginia There is also a Homestown, Missouri Hometown is also a generic term for the city or town in which someone grew up. ...

The area was notable in the middle ages as a source of rich iron ore deposits. Until 2000 there was also a coal mine and a gabbro mine in Nowa Ruda's borough of Słupiec. 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gabbro specimen. ...

Notable inhabitants

• Franz Eckert, composer
• Edyta Geppert, singer
• Friedrich Kayssler, actor and writer
• Karol Maliszewski, poet
• Hans Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg, politician
• Werner Steinberg, writer
• Olga Tokarczuk, writer
• Krzysztof Tyniec, actor
• Robert Więckiewicz, actor

Coordinates: 50°35′N, 16°30′E Franz von Eckert (5 April 1852 - 8 August 1916) was a German musician who composed the harmony for Japans national anthem, Kimi Ga Yo. ... Olga Tokarczuk (born 29 January 1962 in Sulechów near Zielona Góra, Poland) is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially succesful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the hallmark mythical tone of her writing. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

Links [PL]

Portals about Nowa Ruda:

• nowaruda.info - Private Internet Wortal of Nowa Ruda
• nowa-ruda.com Nowa Ruda online - serwis of townspeople
• EnerStacja.pl - online radio station

Forum:

• forum.nowaruda.info - Forum - Private Internet Wortal of Nowa Ruda