Rudnik

This is only an initial page, which I intend to extend later when I have a chance to go back there. At the time of my visit I only had a few shots left in my camera after doing Ponikwoda. I look forward to going back as there are lots of old buildings of all ages just waiting to be photographed.
Rudnik is right on the northern edge of the city, it is completely rural and because of the hilly nature you would need a map to realise that it is part of a city. The curent city border has chopped the villages lands in half, the main part of the village itself is within the city borders, but the property and land on the northern side is not. The village itself has surfaced roads, but a long stretch of the main access road to it isn't, it just has a cinder coating, is very bumpy and gets muddy in winter as it runs along the bottom of a valley.

The church, which is Roman Catholic, is relatively recent, built in the 1960's. Churches were only restored and no new ones built during the 1950's in Poland. With the gradual easing up after the passing of the Stalinist era then some churches began to appear. The process didn't really get going until the 1980's, by which time the Churches had a lot of catching up to do to keep up with the post-war population growth. So this church and its style is quite rare in Poland. The bare brick is very common in this period when building materials were scarce for non-State projects.

I am not sure how old this building is, but I do know that the cladding is plastic and dates from the 1990's. I suspect that construction of this house may originate back to the 1970's, many private home building projects taking between 5 and 30 years to complete.

A traditional wooden house.

Definitely the 1990's here, especially with its slightly overlarge roof and orange clay tiles.

The countryside on the south side of the village, where runs an east-west almost dry valley.

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