Vishnevka (Kaliningrad, Gurjewsk)

settlement Vishnevka Blöstau Вишнёвка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Guryevsk Founded 1363 Earlier names Bolestow (before 1500), Plesten (around 1539), Plestaw (after 1542), Blestau (after 1564), Bloestau (after 1820), Blöstau (until 1946) population 57 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40151 Post Code 238321 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 209 810 003 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 49 '  N , 20 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 49 '10 "  N , 20 ° 41' 13"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Wischnjowka ( Russian Вишнёвка , German  Blöstau ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the municipal self-government unit of the Guryevsk District in Guryevsk Raion .

Geographical location

Vishnevka is located 18 kilometers northeast of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) and west of the municipal road 27K-286, which branches off the regional road 27A-024 (ex A190 ) at Konstantinovka (Konradswalde) and leads north to the municipal road 27K-080. The nearest train station is Bajewka 1 (Kuikeim) on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk (Koenigsberg – Tilsit) line .

history

The Gutsdorf, once called Blöstau , was founded in 1363. In 1874 it was incorporated into the newly established Kuggen district (now Russian: Perwomaiskoje) and belonged to the Königsberg district (Prussia) - 1939–1945 Samland district - in the Königsberg district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1895 the small village had 26 inhabitants. Ten years later, Blöstau gave up its independence and was incorporated into the rural community of Molsehnen (Russian: Kosmodemjanskoje).

In 1945 Blöstau came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia . In 1947 the place was given the Russian name Vishnevka and was assigned at the same time to the village soviet Kosmodemjanski selski Sowet in Gurjewsk Rajon . From 2008 to 2013 Vishnevka belonged to the rural municipality Dobrinskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Guryevsk.

church

Blöstau, with its almost exclusively Protestant inhabitants, was part of the parish of Jaroslawskoje (Schönwalde) until 1945 . It belonged to the parish of Königsberg-Land II within the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Vishnevka is located in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Marschalskoje (Gallgarben) , a branch congregation of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Seminary of the Confessing Church

Which " Confessing Church calling" opposition movement against the German Christians influenced German Evangelical Church maintained in Blöstau 1935-1937 an illegal seminary , which as well as the in Jordan (Neumark) from the previously in Riga active theologian Hans Iwand (1899 –1960) until the state ban.

Web links

• Vishnevka at bankgorodov.ru

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. ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Blöstau
3. ^ Rolf Jehke: Kuggen / Poggenpfuhl district
4. ↑ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Königsberg
5. ↑ 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 in Kaliningrad Oblast" of November 17, 1947)
6. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )