Alexandrowka (Kaliningrad, Polessk)

settlement Alexandrowka Alexen (Grotfeld) Александровка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Polessk Earlier names Alexen (until 1930), Grotfeld (until 1946) population 166 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40158 Post Code 238642 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 230 804 002 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 50 ′  N , 21 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 50 ′ 10 ″  N , 21 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Alexandrowka ( Russian Александровка , German  Alexen , 1930 to 1945 Grotfeld , Lithuanian Aleksai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Polessk in Polessky District .

Geographical location

Alexandrowka is located 28 kilometers east of the district town of Polessk (Labiau) on the regional road 27A-145 (ex A190 ) directly on the municipal border with Salessje (Mehlauken / Liebenfelde) . The nearest train station is Zalessye on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk railway line (Königsberg – Tilsit) .

history

The forester Alexen belonged before 1945 to the state forest Old Sternberg (Russian: Podlipnoje, no longer in existence). In 1874 the rural community was incorporated into the Mehlauken district (from 1938 to 1945 "Liebenfelde district (Ostpr.)"), Which belonged to the Labiau district in the Königsberg district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 there were 825 inhabitants registered in Alexen.

Alexen, which was renamed "Grotfeld" on July 9, 1930, merged with Mehlauken on February 12, 1926 to form the new rural community of Mehlauken. As a district it came with the then "Liebenfelde" called community within northern East Prussia to the Soviet Union .

In 1947 the place was given the Russian name "Alexandrowka", which is widespread in Russia, and was assigned at the same time to the village soviet Zalessovsky selski Sowet in the Bolshakovo district . Since 1965 the place belongs to the Polessk Raion . From 2008 to 2016 Alexandrowka belonged to the rural municipality Zalessovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Polessk.

church

With its majority Protestant population, Alexen resp. Before 1945, Grotfeld became the parish of the Mehlauken Church (today Russian: Salessje). It was part of the church district Labiau 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 new congregation in Bolshakowo (Groß Skaisgirren , 1938 to 1946 Kreuzingen) , a branch congregation in the church region of the Salzburg Church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Alexandrowka at bankgorodov.ru
• Alexandrowka at prussia39.ru

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. ↑ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Grotfeld
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Mehlauken / Liebenfelde district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Labiau
5. ↑ Through the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 17 ноября 1947 г. «О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Ordinance of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR "On the Renaming of Places in Kaliningrad Oblast" of November 17, 1947)
6. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )