Old Pillau

Lost place Old Pillau Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Baltiysk First mention 1430 Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 39 ′  N , 19 ° 55 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 39 ′ 6 ″  N , 19 ° 54 ′ 36 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Alt Pillau was a large church village on a bay of the Fresh Lagoon in the East Prussian district of Fischhausen and from 1901 as "Pillau II" a part of the city of Pillau ("Pillau I"), today's city of Baltijsk in the Rajon of the same name ( Pillau district ) in Russia Kaliningrad Oblast ( Koenigsberg Region (Prussia) ).

Geographical location

The area of ​​Alt Pillaus is today - without any special Russian name - in the central area of ​​the city of Baltiysk in the southwestern tip of the Samland . Baltijsk is the end point of the Russian trunk road A 193 (former German Reichsstraße 131 ) and the Kaliningrad – Baltijsk railway (former East Prussian Southern Railway ).

History

The large church village of Alt Pillau, first mentioned in 1430, was the actual old town of Pillau, which got the hand-fests in 1583 . Above the village was the then so-called Schwalbenberg (Russian: Gora Prochladnaja), which, at 92 meters high, was provided with a landmark for seafaring in 1812 .

In 1820 Alt Pillau had 54 buildings and 532 inhabitants. The number rose to 90 buildings and 1,243 inhabitants by 1871.

On June 13, 1874 Animal pillau eponymous town and seat was an administrative district in the county Fischhausen in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia . On April 28, 1894, the rural communities of Wogram (no longer existent today) and Alt Pillau merged to form the new rural community of Alt Pillau. The population climbed to 3,731 with 196 buildings by 1898.

On December 17, 1901, Alt Pillau ("Pillau II") gave up its independence and merged with Pillau ("Pillau I"), the new town to the south that has now been established and has been recognized since 1725, to form the new municipality of Pillau. A year later, the Alt Pillau district was renamed "Kamstigall district" (neighboring village that no longer exists today). Alt Pillau existed as a settlement until 1945, but is no longer mentioned after that.

District Alt Pillau (1874–1902)

The Alt Pillau district, formed in 1874, initially consisted of five rural communities :

German name	Russian name	Remarks
Old Pillau	(Baltiysk)	1901 in the municipality of Pillau incorporated
Kamstigall		In 1930 reclassified to the district of Neuhäuser, incorporated into the city of Pillau in 1939
Neutief ( Fresh Spit )	Kossa	reclassified to the district of Frisches Haff , incorporated into the city of Pillau in 1938
Pillau, fortress		In 1885 it was reclassified to the district of fortress Pillau, and in 1903 it was incorporated into the municipality of Pillau
Wogram		In 1894 incorporated into the rural community of Alt Pillau

On November 22, 1902, the Alt Pillau district was renamed "Kamstigall District".

church

See the main article: Church of Alt Pillau

Church building

The church in Alt Pillau was founded in 1598. The church was destroyed by fire, and the new church was consecrated in 1676: a wide, short, simple half-timbered building without a tower, inconspicuous, hardly recognizable as a church from the outside. The church was used by church until 1945 before it was destroyed in the war. The remains of the building were later demolished.

Parish

Alt Pillau was already a church village in the pre-Reformation period. Until 1885 it was a branch community to Lochstädt (Russian: Pavlovo, no longer exists today), then also with its own pastor. In 1925 the Protestant parish of Alt Pillau , which has been a Protestant since the Reformation, had 4,000 parishioners, some of whom also lived in the village of Kamstigall (no longer existent), which is part of the parish . Old Pillau was vicarage in the church district Fischhausen (now Russian: Primorsk) within the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange: Location information, East Prussia picture archive: Alt Pillau
2. ^ History of Baltijsk - Pillau at ostpreussen.net
3. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Alt Pillau / Kamstigall / Neuhäuser
4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, Alt Pillau / Kamstigall / Neuhäuser district (as above)
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 32, fig. 31 and 32
6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume III: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 453