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This article is about a town in Poland. For information on the Star Wars race of the same name, see the list of Star Wars races.

Ryn ([rɨn]; German: Rhein) is a town in Poland of 3,062 inhabitants^[1], located 19 kilometres southwest of Giżycko, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship^[2]. It is located between Ryn Lake and Ołów Lake. Among the notable landmarks of the town are a former Teutonic Order castle erected around 1337 and a 19th century Dutch wind-mill.

1 History
2 Sights
3 Population
4 Notes and references
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

In the year 1377, the Teutonic Knights Grand Master Winrich von Kniprode built a fortress on the site of a former Prussian people fortification. Next to this Ordensburg which belonged to Komtur Balga, a settlement was built which was mentioned in documents of 1405.

In 1393, the Komtur Rhein was established, which disapperead after 1468. The best-known Komtur of Rhein was Rudolf von Tippelskirch, who was also involved in the Colonisation of East Prussia.

After the secularisation of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights as Ducal Prussia in 1525, an "Amtshauptmann" office was in Rhein, until 1775.

During Tatar attacks in East Prussia, the village was burned down on 7 February 1657, and many inhabitants were kidnapped.

In the years between 1709 and 1711, Rhein suffered from the plague. Despite of these setbacks, Frederick William I of Prussia granted the town its town charter in 1723. The decisive reason for this was the role of Rhein as an administration center for a larger rural area.

During the Napoleonic Wars, there were quarterings of soldiers in Rhein.

For the last 200 years the development of the town had stagnated. It was not before 1902, that Rhein received a railroad connection, though it was only a spur link of a light railway with a narrow gauge.

Between 1818 and 1945, Rhein had belonged to the "Landkreis Lötzen". Since 1945, it is known as Ryn in the District of Giżycko.

[edit] Sights

Below the order castle, in the center of the town a subterranean channel connects the Matussek pond, a shoaled bay of the Ollof lake, with the mill pond and the lake of Ryn.