Belomorskoye
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Belomorskoje
Hindenburg (Groß Friedrichsgraben I) Беломорское
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Belomorskoje ( Russian Беломорское , German Hindenburg , until 1918 Groß Friedrichsgraben I ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Polessk in Polessky District .
Geographical location
Belemorskoje is located four kilometers northeast of the city of Polessk (Labiau) on the left and right banks of the Great Friedrichsgraben (today Russian: Polesski kanal) and in a settlement to the east of it. Municipal road 27K-147 runs through the village on the western bank of the canal. The nearest train station is Polessk on the Kaliningrad – Sowetsk line (Königsberg – Tilsit) .
history
The village, which consisted of scattered courtyards and homesteads at the turn of the 19th century and was then called Groß Friedrichsgraben I - in contrast to the nearby town of Groß Friedrichsgraben II (1918 to 1946 Ludendorff ) - became an official village on April 9, 1874, giving one its name newly established administrative district , which - also when it was renamed "District Hindenburg" in 1927 - until 1945 belonged to the Labiau district in the Königsberg administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .
On August 9, 1918, the place was renamed "Hindenburg" in honor of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg . On September 30, 1929, the Klein Naujock manor district, Forst (at that time "Agilla Forest Protection District", previously called "Forsthaus Agilla") was incorporated into the rural community of Hindenburg.
In 1945 Groß Friedrichsgraben I came to the Soviet Union like all other places in northern East Prussia . In 1950 the place received the Russian name Belomorskoje and was assigned to the village soviet Ilyichovsky selski Sowet in Polessk Raion . Later the place became part of the Saranski selski Sowet . From 2008 to 2016 Belomorskoye belonged to the rural municipality of Golovkinskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Polessk.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1910 | 1,146 |
| 1933 | 1,114 |
| 1939 | 1,215 |
| 2002 | 52 |
| 2010 | 50 |
District of Groß Friedrichsgraben (Hindenburg)
Between 1874 and 1945, Groß Friedrichsgraben I was the official seat of the Groß Friedrichsgraben district, which was renamed the Hindenburg district in 1927. Initially two rural communities (LG) and two manor districts (GB) belonged to it:
| German name | Russian name | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Agilla (LG) | Krasnoye | 1938 renamed "Haffwerder" |
| Gross Friedrichsgraben I (LG) | Belomorskoye | In 1918 it was renamed "Hindenburg" |
| Grabenhof (GB) | to Polessk | before 1900 incorporated into the rural community of Groß Friedrichsgraben I. |
| Pöppeln, Forst (= Forst Agila) (GB) |
In 1902 it was renamed "Klein Naujock, Forst", incorporated into the rural community of Hindenburg in 1929, and renamed "Erlenwald, Forst" from 1938 to 1946 |
On January 1, 1945, the district of Hindenburg consisted only of the two communities Haffwerder and Hindenburg.
church
With its predominantly Protestant population, Groß Friedrichsgraben I, resp. Hindenburg, parish until 1945 in the parish of the town church Labiau . This was in the parish of Labiau within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The church connection to Polessk continues to this day after a new Evangelical Lutheran congregation was formed in the district town in the 1990s. It is a subsidiary of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
school
In Groß Friedrichsgraben / Hindenburg there was a three-class village school until 1945. The last German headmaster was Helmut Ewert . The school building has been preserved to this day and is to be converted into an environmental center and / or museum or similar.
literature
- Great Friedrichsgraben . In: Economic-Technological Encyclopedia. Volume 58 (edited by Johann Georg Krünitz, Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann and Ludwig Kossarski), Berlin 1792, pp. 43–44.
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)
- ^ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Hindenburg
- ^ A b Rolf Jehke, district of Groß Friedrichsgraben / Hindenburg
- ↑ The Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 5 июля 1950 г., №745 / 3, "О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Regulation 745/3 of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR "About renaming of places of Kaliningrad Oblast" from July 5, 1950)
- ↑ census data
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The area around Labiau: Slavjanskoje - Pronitten, Belomorskoje - Groß Friedrichsgraben / Hindenburg, Iljitschjowo - Kelladen / Waldwinkel at ostpreussen.net
