Nowa Ruda
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Nowa Ruda (pronounced ['nɔva 'ruda]; Czech: Nová 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.
[edit] 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.
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.
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.
[edit] 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
