Aksakovo (Neman District)

Lost place Aksakowo / Maßwillen Аксаково Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon No, sorry man Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 54 '  N , 21 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 54 '10 "  N , 21 ° 58' 10"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Aksakowo ( Russian Аксаково , German  Maßwillen - formerly also Mosswillen (1777) and Maswillen (1871) -, Lithuanian Mažviliai ) was a place not far from the settlement of Schilino ( Schillen , until 1936 Szillen ) in the Neman district in the Russian oblast of Kaliningrad .

Geographical location

Aksakowo was south of the Memel , about 17 kilometers southwest of Neman ( Ragnit ), and 30 kilometers north of Chernyakhovsk ( Insterburg ) on the left bank of the Tilse , a tributary of the Memel. Sovetsk ( Tilsit ) in the northwest was about 19 kilometers away.

history

The German place name of the small estate and farming village was Maswillen until 1871 , earlier also Masswillen . In 1839 the village had 150 inhabitants, who were spread over 30 residential buildings. In 1939 the district of Maßwillen had an area of ​​287 hectares. The village was parish in the Protestant parish of Schillen .

Until 1922 Maßwillen belonged to the district of Ragnit , then to the district of Tilsit-Ragnit in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the province of East Prussia .

The region was occupied by the Soviet Army towards the end of World War II and placed under Soviet administration after the war. The place was settled briefly after 1945, but then abandoned. Remnants of the old village with its scattered courtyards are barely recognizable at the site today.

Development of the population

year	number
1839	150
1865	164
1933	229
1939	209

church

The population of Maßwillens was almost without exception Protestant denomination and thus parish in the parish of the Szillen Church (the place was called between 1936 and 1946: Schillen, today in Russian: Schilino). That belonged to the diocese of Ragnit in the church district of Tilsit-Ragnit within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tilsit-Ragnit: Ortsverzeichnis Süd m – q ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Eduard Messow: Topographical-statistical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 2, Magdeburg 1847, p. 63.
3. ↑ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Maßwillen
4. ^ Wilhelm Hoffmann: Encyclopedia of Earth, Ethnology and State Studies . Volume 2, Leipzig 1866, p. 1506, left column .
5. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City of Tilsit and district of Tilsit-Ragnit / Pogegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).