Rückenau (now Rychnowo or Rychnowo Zuławskie; coordinates: 54° 11' 13" N, 19° 6' 50" E), is a village formerly inhabited by Mennonites in what was once known as the Gross-Werder area of West Prussia, now in Poland. In 2008 the village had a population of 220. In 1936 there were 15 Mennonite families, of whom 11 were farmers, a total of 62 souls, who belonged to the Rosenort Mennonite Church in West Prussia. Their names were Braun, Friesen, Haese, Hein, Janzen, Klaassen, Neufeld, Penner, Regehr, Schröder, and Wiebe. There was a second village in West Prussia known by the name Rückenau (now Rychnowy), located in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship approximately 30 km. north-east of Elbing (coordinates: 54° 15' 32 N, 19° 36' 50 E).

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