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Rudzki Most (, german: Rudabrück/Raudenbrück) is a district of
On October 24, 27 and 30, and on November 2, 6 and 10, 1939, at the beginning of the
Tuchola
Tuchola (german: Tuchel; csb, Tëchòlô) is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. The Pomeranian town, which is the seat of Tuchola County, had a population of 13,418 .
Geographical location
Tuchola lies about ...
, Poland
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, located in the south-eastern part of the town, along the west bank of the Brda River. It is on the edge of the Tuchola Landscape Park
Tuchola Landscape Park (''Tucholski Park Krajobrazowy'') is a protected area ( Landscape Park) in north-central Poland, established in 1985, covering an area of in the Tuchola Forests close to the town of Tuchola.
The Park is shared between two ...
, and was incorporated into the town limits and jurisdiction of Tuchola in 1955. The district takes its name from wooden bridge over the Brda, which was most recently replaced in 1958 by the current road bridge, part of route 240, and from the Ruda River, which flows through the nearby village of Rudzki Młyn.
There is a launching point for canoeing on the Brda River, and in the river near the bridge is a notable large boulder called King Jagiełło's Stone, with a circumference about . The Roman Catholic
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Parish of Divine Providence is located in the district as well.
German occupation
On October 24, 27 and 30, and on November 2, 6 and 10, 1939, at the beginning of the German occupation of Poland
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, Germans carried out mass shootings of local Poles
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, mainly of the intelligentsia as part of the larger ''Intelligenzaktion Pommern
The ''Intelligenzaktion Pommern''Stefan Sutkowski (2001), ''The history of music in Poland: The Contemporary Era. 1939–1974''. Vol. 7, page 37 "...some 183 professors of the Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Mining and Foundry in Craco ...
'', in the surrounding forests. The priest Franciszek Nogalski attempted to negotiate the release of many those to be executed, but was ultimately killed himself. In 1943 the German occupiers renamed the village ''Raudenbrück''.
After the war, in November 1946, the bones of 227 victims were exhumed, 34 of which were unidentified, and reburied in Tuchola, where a mausoleum was later built. There is now a monument at the site of the mass graves of the murdered.
See also
* Rudzki Młyn *Tuchola Forest
The Tuchola Forest, also known as Tuchola Pinewoods or Tuchola Conifer Woods, (the latter a literal translation of pl, Bory Tucholskie; csb, Tëchòlsczé Bòrë; german: Tuchler or Tucheler Heide) is a large forest complex near the town of Tuch ...
References
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