Alexandrowka (Kaliningrad, Zelenogradsk)

settlement Alexandrowka Posselau Александровка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Zelenogradsk Founded 1372 Earlier names Passeln (after 1372), Posselaw (after 1525), Possel (around 1539), Posselo (after 1542), Poysselau (after 1585), Posselau (until 1947) population 111 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40150 Post Code 238552 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 215 813 002 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 55 '  N , 20 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 55 '7 "  N , 20 ° 12' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Alexandrowka ( Russian Александровка , German  Posselau ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad and belongs to the municipal self-government unit of the city district of Zelenogradsk in Zelenogradsk Raion .

Geographical location

Alexandrowka is located 30 kilometers northwest of the city of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) and three kilometers southwest of the Baltic Sea resort Pionerski (Neukuhren) on the municipal road 27K-159 in the section from Pionerski to Juschny (Alexwangen) on the feeder to Primorskoje Kolzo (federal road A 217).

Until 1945 Lixeiden (today Russian: Obuchowo) was the next train station on the Samland Railway , today Pionerski is the next train stop on the Kaliningrad – Svetlogorsk and Kaliningrad – Zelenogradsk – Pionersky railway lines .

history

The village, founded in 1372 and called Posselau until 1947, consisted of several large farms until 1945. In 1874 it was in the newly established District St. Lawrence (Russian Today: Salskoje) incorporated and belonged until 1939 to the district Fischhausen from 1939 to 1945 County Samland in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia .

As a result of the Second World War , Posselau came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia and was given the Russian name Alexandrowka in 1947. At the same time, the place was assigned to the village soviet Romanowski selski Sowet in Primorsk Raion . From 2005 to 2015 Alexandrowka belonged to the rural municipality of Kovrowskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Zelenogradsk.

Population development

year	Residents
1910	112
1933	108
1939	109
2002	101
2010	111

church

Because of its predominantly Protestant population, Posselau was incorporated into the parish of the parish church in Sankt Lorenz (today Russian: Salskoje) before 1945 . It belonged to the parish of Fischhausen (Primorsk) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Alexandrowka is located in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Zelenogradsk (Cranz) , a subsidiary of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Kaliningradskaya oblastʹ. (Results of the 2010 all-Russian census. Kaliningrad Oblast.) Volume 1 , Table 4 (Download from the website of the Kaliningrad Oblast Territorial Organ of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Posselau
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, St. Lorenz District
4. ↑ Through the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 17 ноября 1947 г. “О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области” (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of November 17, 1947: On the renaming of the places of Kaliningrad Oblast)
5. ↑ census data
6. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Alexandrowka at bankgorodov.ru