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13 km to the south-west lies Małga (Ruda), a poor village of 650 inhabitants with a wooden church, said to have been standing for 300 years. The tower dates back to 1722. Organs from 1788 from the church in Jedwabno. In the 18th century, there was an ironworks for bog iron ore here - that's all you can read about Małga in the Illustrated Guide to Prussian Masuria and Warmia by Dr. Mieczysław Orłowicz, published in 1923. In my personal guidebook, I noted the following about my encounter with this town: When I heard a dozen or so years ago that somewhere near Nidzica, amidst forests and swamps, a lonely church tower stood, I knocked myself on the forehead in disbelief. A few years later I stood and looked at the cross towering over the tangle of trees and bushes, and around there were only meadows, marshes, impenetrable forests and not a single living soul. That's how I got to know Małga, the lost village of the Mazurs. And then came the time for its secrets... I invite you to discover together this one of the most interesting peculiarities of the former borderland.