Rumia

Coordinates: 54°34′0″N 18°24′0″E / 54.56667°N 18.40000°E / 54.56667; 18.40000
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Rumia
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Rumia (

Kashubian Tricity (Rumia, Reda, Wejherowo) and a suburb part of the metropolitan area of the Tricity. It is situated in Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania. It is connected by well-developed railway and highway connections to the Tricity, an urban agglomeration of almost 1 million inhabitants on the coast of Gdańsk Bay
.

History

duke of Pomerania stopped here to issue official documents. It was part of Poland until 1309, when it was annexed by the State of the Teutonic Order. Poland tried to regain the region through diplomacy as it did not recognize its annexation by the Teutonic Knights, and from 1325 the local Cistercians secretly resumed collections of the Peter's Pence tax on behalf of Poland for the Catholic Church.[2] From 1320 to 1342 a Cistercian–Teutonic conflict took place, which ended with a privilege in which the Teutonic Knights confirmed the Cisterian possessions in the region, including Rumia.[3]

In 1454 King Casimir IV Jagiellon re-incorporated the region to the Kingdom of Poland, and after the subsequent Thirteen Years' War the Teutonic Knights renounced their claims to the region in 1466.[4] Afterwards Rumia was administratively located in the Puck County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland until the Partitions of Poland.[5] It remained a church village of the Cistercians from Oliwa, while the present-day district of Zagórze was a royal village of the Polish Crown,[5] and also new craft settlements (also present-day districts) Szmelta and Stara Piła emerged.[6]

In 1772 it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in the First Partition of Poland, and from 1773 it belonged to the newly established province of West Prussia until 1871 when it also became part of the unified German Empire. In 1905 Rumia (then officially Rahmel) had 760 inhabitants. 579 of them were Germans and 180 were Kashubian or Polish,[7] while the present-day districts of Zagórze and Janowo had 754 and 161 inhabitants respectively, and remained predominantly Polish-Kashubian.[8] Rumia was a German language island in a predominantly Slavic speaking region.

Exaltation of the Holy Cross church

Germany's defeat in

Polish state.[10] Administratively it was part of the new Pomeranian Voivodeship
.

Monument to Józef Wybicki and Hieronim Derdowski

In the late 1920s, the nearby village of

glider
club.

During the German

POWs, mostly from the United Kingdom, France and Italy. A forced labour camp and an aircraft assembly plant were located in the town's vicinity. In 1945, shortly before the town's liberation by the Red Army, the local airfield was destroyed by an RAF
bombing raid.

In 1945, the town was transferred back to the once again reestablished Pomeranian Voivodeship. Rumia became a city in 1954 when a few other villages (Zagórze, Biała Rzeka, Szmelta and Janowo) were joined in. The town was administratively part of the Gdańsk Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998. In 2001, the nearby village of Kazimierz was also included into city of Rumia.

Transport

Rumia is well connected through a 2-lane highway that leads from Wejherowo to Gdynia and from there by Circular Highway to Gdańsk. There is a plan to extend the Circular from Gdynia to beyond Wejherowo.

The

Rumia Janowo. There is also network of city buses that also offers connections to Wejherowo and Gdynia
.

Sports

Football team Orkan Rumia and rugby team Arka Rumia are based in the city.[13][14]

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1960 15,100—    
1970 23,300+54.3%
1975 26,000+11.6%
1980 26,700+2.7%
1990 37,500+40.4%
1995 40,000+6.7%
1998 40,200+0.5%
2005 44,900+11.7%
2012 47,148+5.0%
2019 49,160+4.3%
Note: 2010[15] 2014[16] 2017

People from Rumia

  • Erika Steinbach (born 1943) a German CDU politician, served in the Bundestag 1990-2017
  • Jerzy Treder (1942–2015) a Polish philologist and linguist, focusing on Kashubian studies
  • Magdalena Damaske (born 1996) a Polish volleyball player

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland

Rumia is

twinned
with:

  • Hultsfreds
    , Sweden

See also

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rumia.

References

Notes

  1. ^ Historia Rumi od pradziejów do 1945 (in Polish). Gdynia: Wydawnictwo REGION. 2012. p. 33.
  2. ^ Historia Rumi od pradziejów do 1945, p. 54
  3. ^ Historia Rumi od pradziejów do 1945, p. 54-55
  4. ^ Górski, Karol (1949). Związek Pruski i poddanie się Prus Polsce: zbiór tekstów źródłowych (in Polish and Latin). Poznań: Instytut Zachodni. pp. 89–90, 207–208.
  5. ^ a b Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. pp. 100–101, 104.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ Historia Rumi od pradziejów do 1945, p. 63, 69
  7. ^ Gemeindelexikon für die Provinz Westpreussen: auf Grund der Materialien der Volkszählung vom 1. Dezember 1905 und anderer amtlicher Quellen (Berlin 1908), p.90-91.
  8. ^ Historia Rumi od pradziejów do 1945, p. 95
  9. ^ Historia Rumi od pradziejów do 1945, p. 121
  10. ^ Historia Rumi od pradziejów do 1945, p. 121-122
  11. ^ "Instytut Pamięci Narodowej | Śledztwa zakończone wydaniem postanowienia o umorzeniu". ipn.gov.pl. Archived from the original on 2013-01-19.
  12. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4
    .
  13. ^ "Orkan Rumia - strona klubu" (in Polish). Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  14. ^ "RC Arka Rumia - Drużyna Rugby" (in Polish). Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  15. ^ "Ludność w gminach. Stan w dniu 31 marca 2011 r. – wyniki spisu ludności i mieszkań 2011 r." Główny Urząd Statystyczny. Archived from the original on 27 November 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
  16. ^ "Population in Poland. Size and structure by territorial division as of December 31, 2015" (ASPX) (in Polish). Retrieved 26 May 2016.
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