Ballads

Federal district	Northwest Russia
Oblast	Kaliningrad
Rajon	No, sorry man
Earlier names	Ballupis (before 1565), ; Kartzaninken (before 1785), ; Balluphnen (after 1815), ; Groß Ballupönen (until 1928), ; Ballupönen (1928–1938), ; Löffkeshof (1938–1946)
Time zone	UTC + 2
Geographical location
Coordinates	54 ° 54 ' N , 22 ° 10' E Coordinates: 54 ° 54 '2 " N , 22 ° 10' 28" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Ballupönen (until 1928 Groß Ballupönen , 1938–1945 Löffkeshof ) is a lost farming village from German times in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . The Russian name was Okhotnichye for the place in Neman Raion .

Geographical location

Former cemetery of Klein Ballupönen (July 2005)

The place was in northeastern East Prussia on the road from Kraupischken (from 1938 Breitenstein , today Uljanowo ) to Budwethen (from 1938 Altenkirch , today Malomoschaiskoje ), east (left) the Inster and north of the castle and place Raudonatschen (from 1938 Kattenhof ). In addition to the main town (previously officially Groß Ballupönen ), the district of Klein Ballupönen, just under 1.5 km south of the Landstrasse, and Gut Skatticken on the right bank of the Inster, which also no longer exist since 1945, belong to the rural community of Ballupönen .

Ballupönen belonged to the district Tilsit-Ragnit , District Raudonatschen (from 1939 Kattenhof ) and the parish Budwethen . According to the data of the last census of 1939 , the place had 205 inhabitants (total of all districts, compared to 224 inhabitants in 1933) and extended over 734 hectares .

The nearest train station was in Naujeningken, three kilometers to the north (from 1938 Neusiedel , today to Malomoschaiskoje) on the Tilsit – Stallupönen (Sowetsk – Nesterow) railway line, which was dismantled on this section after 1945 . There was also a post office there.

history

During the National Socialist renaming of places with Baltic origins, especially in the eastern parts of East Prussia, in 1938 the "German sounding" name Löffkeshof . The districts were given the names Kleinlöffkeshof and Gut Katticken accordingly .

There is no information about the destruction of the place during the invasion of the Red Army in January 1945, from which all residents presumably had fled. The village was not settled again, but completely demolished in the following decades and largely converted into arable land. The exact year the building was demolished is not known; Soviet maps from the 1980s do not show any built-up areas in the area of the former village and its districts.

Individual evidence

^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Ballupönen
↑ Measuring table sheets 1099 Budwethen , 1198 Kraupischken , 1199 Rautenberg
↑ ^a ^b Kattenhof district at territorial.de
^ ^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. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
^ Soviet topographic maps, scale 1: 200,000, sheet N-34-XI (editorial deadline 1983); 1: 100,000, sheet N-34-45 (1984)

[1] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Ballupönen

[2] Measuring table sheets 1099 Budwethen , 1198 Kraupischken , 1199 Rautenberg

[territorial-3] Kattenhof district at territorial.de

[verwaltungsgeschichte-4] 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. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[5] Soviet topographic maps, scale 1: 200,000, sheet N-34-XI (editorial deadline 1983); 1: 100,000, sheet N-34-45 (1984)