Belkino (Kaliningrad, Krasnosnamensk)
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Belkino
Groß Wersmeningken (Langenfelde) Белкино
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Belkino ( Russian Белкино , German Groß Wersmeningken , 1938 to 1945 Langenfelde , Lithuanian Didieji Versmininkai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad in Krasnosnamensk Rajon . It belongs to the municipal self-government unit of the Krasnosnamensk District .
Geographical location
Belkino is 17 kilometers north of the former district town of Dobrowolsk (until 1938 Pillkallen , 1938 to 1946 Schloßberg (Ostpr.) ) And five kilometers southwest of today's Rajon capital Krasnosnamensk (until 1938 Lasdehnen , 1938 to 1946 Haselberg (Ostpr.) ). The municipal road 27K-105 runs through the village, which leads from Krasnosnamensk via Tolstowo (Löbegallen , 1938 to 1946 Löbenau) to Uslowoje (Rautenberg) . In town, a land road flows from the south, which connects the now submerged town of Laukehlischken (1928 to 1946: Caesarsruhe, Russian: Danilewskoje) in the valley of the Inster (Russian: Instrutsch) with Belkino. The next train station before 1945 was the train station in Lasdehnen (Haselberg, now: Krasnosnamensk) on the Pillkallen – Lasdehnen railway of the Pillkaller Kleinbahn .
Place name
The German or Lithuanian place name is probably derived from the Lithuanian word "wersme" (versmė), which means "source". There was another place called “Groß Wersmeningken” in the Gumbinnen district . His name is Sarja today . There is also another place called " Belkino " today , which was called Abelischken until 1938 , Ilmenhorst from 1938 to 1946 and belongs to Prawdinsk district ( Friedland district ).
history
The former East Prussian village, two kilometers north of the Inster , was first mentioned as Wersamnigk in 1525. When on April 8, 1874 the district of Löbegallen (it was called from 1939 "district of Löbenau") was rebuilt, Groß Wersmeningken belonged to it along with seven other villages. The administrative district, which existed until 1945, was incorporated into the Pillkallen district (from 1939 "Landkreis Schloßberg (Ostpr.)"), Which belonged to the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .
In 1910 there were 644 inhabitants registered in Groß Wersmeningken. Their number decreased to 532 by 1933 and was still 492 in 1939.
For political-ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names, Groß Wersmeningken was renamed “Langenfelde” on June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - in 1938.
As a result of the Second World War , the village came to the Soviet Union in 1945 with all of northern East Prussia and in 1947 was given the Russian name “Belkino”. At the same time the place was assigned to the village Soviet Tolstowski selski Sowet in Krasnosnamensk Raion . Since 1965 Belkino belonged to the Chlebnikowski selski Sowet . From 2008 to 2015 the place belonged to the rural municipality of Wesnowskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Krasnosnamensk.
church
The vast majority of the population in Groß Wersmeningken resp. Langenfelde was a Protestant denomination before 1945 and was parish in the parish of the Lasdehnen church. It was part of the church district Pillkallen (Schloßberg) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The numerically inconspicuous Catholic church members belonged to the parish of Bilderweitschen (1938 to 1946: Bilderweitschen) in the deanery Tilsit within the diocese of Warmia .
Today Belkino is located in the extensive catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Sabrodino (Lesgwangminnen , 1938 to 1946 Lesgewangen) , which was founded in the 1990s and belongs to the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia . The closest Catholic parish is now in Neman (Ragnit) .
Personalities of the place
Sons and daughters of the place
- Christoph Kukat (born December 31, 1844 - † August 3, 1914), East Prussian evangelist and penitential preacher, founder of the East Prussian Evangelical Prayer Association
Connected to the place
- Johanna Ambrosius (1854–1939), German writer, poet of the first East Prussian song and numerous other poems, lived with her husband Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt in Groß Wersmeningken from 1883 to 1908
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ a b Groß Wersmeningken at GenWiki
- ↑ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Langenfelde
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Löbegallen / Löbenau district
- ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, Pillkallen district
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Pillkallen district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty Kaliningrad
- ↑ Belkino - Groß Wersmeningken / Langenfelde at ostpreussen.net