Rudna ' is a village in Lubin County

Lubin County

Lubin County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The county covers an area of...

, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship

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, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

) called Gmina Rudna

Gmina Rudna

Gmina Rudna is a rural gmina in Lubin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the village of Rudna, which lies approximately north of Lubin and north-west of the regional capital Wrocław....

. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany

Germany

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. It lies approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) north of Lubin

Lubin

Lubin is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. From 1975–1998 it belonged to the former Legnica Voivodeship. Lubin is the administrative seat of Lubin County, and also of the rural district called Gmina Lubin, although it is not part of the territory of the latter,...

 and 69 km (43 mi) north-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

The place was originally called Nowa Ruda (New Rudna) - Old Polish

Old Polish language

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 ruda meaning ore

Ore

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 - to distinguish it from the neighbouring small village of Stara Rudna

Stara Rudna

Stara Rudna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rudna, within Lubin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany....

 (Old Rudna). Originated about 1280 it was not mentioned before 1347 in a deed of Charles IV

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

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 of Luxemburg, at this time King of Bohemia, as a town within the Duchy

Duchy

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 of Ścinawa

Scinawa

Ścinawa is a town and municipality on the Oder river in the Lower Silesian region of Poland. The town features a number of historic monuments including city hall and the town church . The Ścinawa train station is a key gateway for travel throughout the region, connecting major destinations such...

 (Steinau). Most of the German population fled

Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II

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, when the Red Army

Red Army

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 approached the locality at the end of January 1945, the remaining Germans were expelled until June. They were replaced by Poles

Poles

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 deported from the Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union

Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union

Immediately after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, which marked the beginning of World War II, the Soviet Union invaded the eastern regions of the Second Polish Republic, which Poles referred to as the "Kresy," and annexed territories totaling 201,015 km² with a population of 13,299,000...

 (Kresy

Kresy

The Polish term Kresy refers to a land considered by Poles as historical eastern provinces of their country. Today, it makes western Ukraine, western Belarus, as well as eastern Lithuania, with such major cities, as Lviv, Vilnius, and Hrodna. This territory belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian...

). The place lost its town rights and became part of the former Legnica Voivodeship

Legnica Voivodeship

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.

The village has a population of 1,300.

Hymn

Hymn

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-writer Johann Heermann

Johann Heermann

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 was born on October 11, 1585 in Raudten/Rudna, where his father was a furrier.