Rumia
Rumia (Cassubian: RÃÂëmiÃÂô, German Rahmel) is a town in Kashubia or Eastern Pomerania region, north-western Poland with some 40,000 inhabitants. Situated in the Wejherowo County in Pomeranian Voivodship since 1999, previously in Gdansk Voivodship (1975-1998).
It is connected by well developed railway and highway connections to the Tricity, over 1 milion agglomeration on the coast of Gdansk Bay.
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The vilage of Rumia was first mentioned in 1224 when it was awarded by Swietopelk, duke of Eastern Pomerania to the Cistersian convent in Oliwa (today part of Gdansk). At this time the the name of Rumia was applied also to the neighbourhoods of Janowo (=John's Place) and Biala Rzeka (=White River). Zagorze, Kazimirez and Łeżyce, which are today part of Rumia, originally were separate villages, and were joined with Rumia in 1934 to form Rumia Rural Commune. Rumia was the the church property until the first partition of Poland, when it was confiscated by the Prussian government. In 1285 Mestwin II, duke of Pomerania stopped here to issue offcial documents.
The village of Rumia was since 1772 a part of the Prussian province of West Prussia, since 1870 in Imperial Germany until the end of the first world war, and was then located in the Pomeranian Voivodship of the newly restored Polish state. During the WW2 1939-1945 reannexed by Germany to the province of Danzig-West Prussia. 1945 back to Pomeranian Voivodship. It became a city in 1954 when a few other villages, ZagÃÂórze, Biala Rzeka, Szmelta and Janowo, was joined with Rumia. In 2001 also the village of Kazimierz was included.
Rumia is well connected through 4 lane highway, that lead from Wejherowo to Gdynia and from there by Circle Highway to Gdansk. There is a plan to extend Circle Highway from Gdynia to beyond Wejherowo.
In Rumia there are 2 stops of the SKM (fast city railway), that connects Lebork-Wejherowo-Rumia-Gdynia-Sopot-Gdansk-Tczew. The stops are called Rumia and Rumia-Janowo.
There is also network of city buses that goes directly to Gdynia and Gdynia-Dabrowa.History
Transportation