Blischneje (Kaliningrad)

settlement Blischneje Klein Elxnupönen (Kleinerlenfließ) Ближнее Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Polessk Earlier names Tworutschen (before 1785), Klein Elxnupönen (after 1785), Klein Elxnupönen (until 1938), Kleinerlenfließ (until 1946) population 59 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40158 Post Code 238642 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 230 804 003 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 51 ′  N , 21 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 50 ′ 49 ″  N , 21 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Blischneje ( Russian Ближнее , German  Klein Elxnupönen , 1938 to 1945 Kleinerlenfließ , Lithuanian Mažieji Elksnupėnai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Polessk in Polessky District .

Geographical location

Blischneje is 25 kilometers east of the district town of Polessk (Labiau) and borders in the southeast on the neighboring town of Zalessye . The Salessinka (Alder River) flows through the place, whose train station Zalessye is on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk railway line .

history

Before 1945, the former Klein Elxnupönen was a residential area in the Cotta forest estate , which was founded in 1868 and was renamed in 1902 as the “Mehlauken forest estate”. This gave its name to the administrative district in the Labiau district in the Königsberg administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . In an ideological defense against foreign-sounding place names, Klein Elxnupönen was renamed Kleinerlenfließ in 1938 .

In 1945 the place was assigned to the Soviet Union like all in northern East Prussia . In 1947 the place was given the Russian name Blischneje and at the same time was assigned to the village soviet Zalessovsky selski sovet in the Bolshakovo district . Since 1965 the place belongs to the Polessk Raion . From 2008 to 2016 Blischneje belonged to the rural municipality Zalessovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Polessk.

church

With its almost exclusively Protestant population, Klein Elxnupönen was resp. Before 1945, Kleinerlenfließ was part of the parish of the Mehlauken Church (from 1938: Liebenfelde). It belonged to the parish of Labiau within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Blischneje lies in the catchment area of ​​the newly established Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Bolshakowo , a branch congregation in the church region of the Salzburg Church in Gussew within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Blischneje at bankgorodov.ru
• Blischneje at prussia39.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. ^ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kleinerlenfließ
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Cotta / Liebenfelde (East Pr.) - Forst
4. ↑ 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)
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.