Wessjolowka (Kaliningrad, Swetly)

settlement Wessjolowka Bärwalde Весёловка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Urban district Swetly Earlier names Beerenwalde until 1945: Bärwalde 1945–1947: Berwalde population 149 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Post Code 238345 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 425 000 006 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 43 '  N , 20 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 43 '20 "  N , 20 ° 17' 56"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Wessjolowka ( Russian Весёловка , German Bärwalde ) is a settlement in the urban district Swetly in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad about twelve kilometers west of the city center of Kaliningrad . Good one kilometer north of the station is Lyublino -Nowoje (Seerappen) on the railway line Kaliningrad-Baltiysk .

history

A Prussian burial site was found near Bärwalde (called Beerenwalde in old documents) in the Kaporn Heath . Fortified systems on the hill to the north were initially a Prussian fortified village and were later used by the Teutonic Order . The settlers who followed the order received Bärwalder Land as a fief and have probably mixed with the Prussians living there. The Bärwalder farmers were obliged to obey the order during the time of the order; later they were under the jurisdiction and feudal sovereignty of the dukes or kings in Prussia according to Köllmischen law . The last immigrants came at the beginning of the 18th century after the great plague .

Bärwalde was the largest village in the parish Wargen (today Russian: Kotelnikowo ). The parish area was about 2500 acres . The place contained 20 farmsteads, 7 Insthäuser and about 150 residential houses including the forest settlement Sonntagsruh. The train station was Seerappen on the Königsberg – Pillau railway line . The district road from Groß Heydekrug to Seerappen ran through the village. From 1922 Bärwalde was supplied with electricity by the Peyse electricity company.

At the end of the Second World War , the place was first occupied by the Red Army from January 30 to February 21, 1945 and then permanently from April 1945 . Some of the residents who had not fled were murdered after the Soviet invasion, while others were deported to Siberia. Some of those who remained died of starvation as a result of the winter of 1946/47. The remaining German residents were expelled in 1948 and transported to the Soviet Zone .

The starved people could still be buried in the Bärwalder cemetery. This was later haunted and vandalized by grave robbers. After 1990 a boulder and a marble plaque with Russian and German memorial inscriptions were set up there.

In 1947 the place was renamed Wessjolowka and incorporated into the village district Wsmorjewski selski Sowet in Primorsk Raion . In 1954 Wessjolowka got into the village soviet Logwinski selski Sowet and in 1963 in the Volotschajewski selski Sowet in Gurjewsk Rajon . Wessjolowka has been part of the Swetly district since 1994 .

Not much is left of the place. There is only permanent settlement in the area of ​​the former Sonntagsruh settlement and further into the forest. There are some allotment gardens in the actual former local area .

Population development

year	Residents
1858	261
1919	430
1939	608
2002	107
2010	149

church

Before 1945 Bärwalde was parish with its predominantly Protestant population in the parish of the church in Wargen (today Russian: Kotelnikowo ). It belonged to the parish of Fischhausen (Primorsk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Vessjolowka lies in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

literature

• Ursula Growitz: Bärwalde. History of an old Samland village . WDL Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-932356-69-1

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. ↑ 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 of the Kaliningrad Oblast" of November 17, 1947)
3. ↑ census data
4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume III: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 455
5. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty Kaliningrad ( Memento of the original dated August 29, 2011 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.